Russkie Advisors for InCountry

Coming soon to an Army surplus retailer near you!

This was the look I was going for, EMR camo, the new Russian "Ratnik" camo pattern. I thought it would be easy to do, and distinct on the table. Unfortunately, it just didn't work out that way.  Below, the base coat of Vallejo green with some lighter green splotches:

and with brown splotches:

Splotches courtesy of my old, battered brushes I save for these purposes:

This wasn't coming along the way I wanted, so I tried a wash of Nuln Oil, to see if it would "blend" better, and look more like the above. This improved the look, but not to the EMR camo I was striving for, at the top.  This also darkened the colors a bit:

...and they didn't look good at gaming distance.  

This could be discouraging, and I was, a bit.  But, I figured, as long as they look good - in the end - I'll have another shot at Ratnick camo later.  So, now, let's just concentrate on making them look COOL!  This is part of the fun of "near-future" wargaming... no one can tell you that they don't look like that!

So...I went back and highlighted them a bit, which brightened them: 

This made them pop a bit more at gaming distance, about 2 feet [look COOL!]:

Satisfied with that, I started the final painting of details - it's the little things that make these figures look a lot more realistic, just a dab of paint here and there to differentiate small objects that don't match the surroundings:

Trying for a yellow lens eye-pro look, not sure it's succeeding...but it's interesting.

As the final details get painted in, the figs look better and better. This gives more momentum to finishing them up.  A few early morning and late evening sessions, and they progressed quite a bit, often with a 0/0 brush [just a few bristles on that VERY fine brush]. 

One thing I got answers on, was a strange object hanging from some of their belts - looked like an old keychain [with large keys].  Turns out they are chem-lights, some infra-red, for marking LZs, etc.  The IR ones are a dark purplish look, and to bring up the colors I did a quick dry brush in white with a small brush, to give something light for the colors to stand out on:

yellow glos on the left, IR on the right:

Altho there's a few more little details I may pick out, for now, these guys are done, so gave them a matte coating and then flocked them in a matching arid dirt like the other InCountry figs.

Close up of the two trigger-pullers:

and the leader with a female Soldier:

Anyway, this is them for now!

Have been playing a bunch of solo games of InCountry 2.0, getting some questions answered at the Discord and Fb pages, etc.  Will have to post on this, soon, so stay tuned as we go deeper "InCountry"!