Completed Downed MiG-19 and Some Brown Cows

Following on from my previous post, I painted the Mig (basically a random mix of Vallejo Natural Steel (70.864) and Army Painter Plate Mail Metal) and added decals (overpainting a 1/144 WWI RAF roundel and some numbers from Revell 1/100 Mil Mi-24 Hind kits). I'm not sure now what colour I painted the pilot's uniform in, I think Vallejo Khaki (70.988), but I gave it a heavy brown wash as the Albanian uniforms were more brown than green.

Images of Albanian MiG-19 / J-6s to see how run down they are:

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=albanian+j-6&sxsrf=ALeKk037V4Epky3FcatrMGvC6mt_Af6vjA:1608334389732&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjMhOu_2NjtAhVvwjgGHYJHBckQ_AUoAXoECAYQAw&biw=1920&bih=919

This was followed by cleaning up the edges of the decals, and adding weathering (brown and black washes). And then static grass and tufts. I think the Noch Spring Meadow static grass (50210) is a little too bright to replace whatever I've been using for years (Games Workshop or Gale Force 9 light green static grass), but it's definitely better than the Woodland Scenics Light Green static grass that is nice - but a very dull green / grey that I'll be using for desert / post apocalyptic settings instead and not for my temperate and tropical zone-centric armies. I've used it on these pieces to see what it looks liek side by side.

I then also finished off some 1/100 architectural model cows I bought years ago from an art shop, and painted them brown as Buša cattle (a Balkan breed of cow - noting they're a small sized breed) to add as battlefield tat or ambush markers/jumping off points (with 1, 2 and 3 standing cows on the bases to differentiate them).

Did you know there's a lot of breeds of cattle?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cattle_breeds

Some simple additions to the battlefield terrain, but will add to the Balkan and Caucasus theme of my modern games.

Downed MiG-19

I picked up this 1/100 Tamiya MiG-19 in Japan a few years ago. There's not many instances in my current projects where I can use this, but the Albanians were still flying these (well some were still able to fly) at the time of the Kosovo War in 1999.

I decided that instead of a flying model it could act as a focal point for a mission or just battlefield tat by being a downed aircraft (and a quick search confirmed that not all crashed jets end up as a crater and charred frame!).

I based it on an old CD and ripped one of the wings. there's also battle damage at the rear to represent an S-125 (SA-3 Goa) missile strike, same type that shot down the F-117 in Kosovo.

I added the pilot (a 15mm WWII Soviet tanker from Battlefront) so I could easily play a downed pilot scenario for any rule set, like the one Warlord Games has for Bolt Action:
https://www.warlordgames.com/special-mission-downed-raf-pilot/

And this all ties in nicely to the film 'Behind Enemy Lines'.