Painting Modern Russian Army Camouflage
I’ll level with you. Looking at Google images of modern Russian army camouflage gave me a headache and trying to figure out how to replicate it at 28mm pushed the headache into migraine territory.
The easiest solution would have been to paint the camo in a solid bright green color since that’s what the camo looks like at a distance anyway but I decided against it and threw together a BDU-looking camo pattern.
I’ll take the hit for historical accuracy because I think what I came up with looks passable to those who don’t know what right should look like. Feel free to judge I can take it. If you’re more committed to the crusade of historical accuracy than I was then I applaud your fanaticism and have fun. If you find success please send tips my way.
All colors are Vallejo brand.
Helmet – Russian Green (894)
Camouflage – Luftwaffe Cam. Green (823), Beige Brown (875), and Black (950)
Rucksack and Webbing – German Cam. Dark Green (896)
Elbow and Knee Pads – German Field Grey WWII (830)
Boots – Black (950)
Below are the steps I took in painting the camouflage.
Well, nice paint job, but not even close to any pattern of modern Russian camo.
Russian ground troops wear pixel-dot camo, EMR Leto in Russian, Arctic and troops of ODKB wear their own patterns, so as Syrian corpus.
Different troops camo is easily googled.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/53/cd/b2/53cdb26a2d1b8e6a29b73661decb7343.jpg
Great example of modern Russian camo in 1/35 scale models.
But I have little idea how to obtain such a color without different stencils