Mercs Recon – Eu, Inc

A long time ago I backed the Mercs: Recon kickstarter. Everything dragged out and the first shipment was more than a year late when it arrived this February. By that time my interest had waned and even though I built a couple of the multipart resin figures I didn’t paint them. They just stood there on the painting table.

The EU, Inc team from Mercs: Recon - Counter Threat

The other week I looked at them, unpacked the player boards with illustrations of the uniforms and decided to do something about this. If I’m ever going to get these painted it will have to be very basic and easy paintjobs.

Shock trooper and Sergeant

Said and done. I decided to start with the five-man EU, Inc faction team from the Counter Threat box, and the obvious thing with them is the characteristic blue colours on their gear. As every faction have their characteristic colours I decided to keep that as an identifier and then go approximately after the illustrations.

Medic and Analyst

Paints used for EU, Inc personnel

Black – black drybrushed with Vallejo 868 Dark Sea Green

Blue – 899 Dark Prussia Blue highlighted with 965 Prussia Blue

Yellow border on shoulder armour – 953 Flat Yellow

Metal – 863 Gunmetal Grey and an Army Painter Dark Tone wash

Goggles – 52 Silver

Leader

Preparation and painting done during two evenings and they turned out decent enough. Just another five-man team and ten guards and we’re ready for a test-game.