At this point I’ve built both resin and metal models from InCountry. The sets I’ve built don’t appear to still be all listed, but here’s what I have:

• Quds Proxy Forces (Metal)
• African Militia (Metal)
• African Regulars (Metal)
• Russian Alpha Force (Metal)
• Rangers (Resin)
• Rangers Special Weapons Team (Resin)
• Kill Team (Resin)

These are all true scale 28mm miniatures.

It’s clear that things are shifting as they’ve recently rearranged the store. My review and advice will pertain to the specific miniatures I purchased–I understand they intend to update the metals to have a better method of gluing them together and they also have a website dedicated to buying their stuff in resin.

Let’s start with the resin. It’s easy enough: it was great.

Resin

The quality of the sculpts is excellent and the resin has proven reasonably durable. I’m sorry to say I have dropped the minis a few times, but they haven’t shattered. They appear to bend just a little–which is to say they aren’t using bottom tier printing.

The details to me seem great, but I have detected very mild print lines on the bottom of backpacks. This doesn’t bother me and did not show up on the final painted mini, so I lack an example.

Overall, if I’m buying more from InCountry, I’m going resin all the way. Is that foreshadowing?

Yes.

Metals

The metal models have excellent detail, just like the resin. I usually prefer metals over resin due to durability–but here I have to acknowledge the build process was less than stellar.

I found two varieties of builds for these models. One was where the gun had to be glued onto the wrists (hands were on the gun). The other is where the gun is attached via one arm and the other arm has to be glued on.

Part of the issue is that the arms/guns come in their own baggy all grouped together separate from the miniatures. This means you have to align everything carefully–which isn’t too hard, but it’s worth noting. The second, bigger issue is that even after aligning properly I had to bend arms into position or even clip part of the wrists off to get everything to line up. In fact, I found that 100% of the time I needed to clip the guides off the wrists or it just wouldn’t work.

Once I figured this out, the building wasn’t too bad aside from the normal issues of gluing small bits of metal together. For what it’s worth, I highly recommend watching Adam Savage’s video on superglue if you haven’t before.

Note the trick with baking soda. I didn’t try it due to the small size of the joins, but I can attest that it works. Another alternative is using small bits of tissue paper–but again, we’re talking about wrists here. It’d be hard to nail the right sizing to not have tissue hanging out of their wrists.

Overall, I think the metals are good, but you need to come in ready for that build process. I clipped chunks of arms off to get stuff to align–not even just trimming it down. This may have been a bit of a “skill issue,” but I’ve built metals before (entire armies, in fact) and didn’t struggle this much.

Concluding Thoughts

I recommend you grab the resin miniatures over the metal ones, but either way I do think the final products are high quality. If you want modern miniatures, these truly fit the bill for great looking minis and I don’t regret any of my acquisitions here–but going forward I will stick to their resin.

My review on the InCountry: Recon game is still pending. I think these miniatures are worth buying on their own merits, game aside, but I will advise that if you’re buying them you should look at how forces work in Recon before assuming these will just line up. I believe the shop refresh will fix the issue I had, but it seemed that not every kit had a special weapon in it. Most did–and the starter set worked great for Recon, but again I think I’d be remiss not to note it.

I think Enemy Spotted Studios are a miniature producer to watch, for sure. The dedication to quality sculpts is obvious, and the potential here is truly great.

Anyway, pretty photos of miniatures: