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Kozure · February 6th, 2018, 15:50

Hi Erebus - I think the questions you have to ask yourself are:

Should I buy a gun to match my uniform?

OR

Should you buy a uniform to match your gun?

If an accurate "impression" is important to you then definitely you should try to be as accurate as you want to be. Keep in mind that I'd say at least 80-90% of Airsofters in typical skirmish game aren't trying to run accurate impressions, and no one is going to 'call' you on anything you wear unless it's patently ridiculous.

Now, if you're doing milsims, then yes, accuracy becomes more important, but even then many milsim and milscrim players just go for a PMC-type look.

As AS92 mentions, there are a few Russian outfits that run ATACS-FG. Some of them might be seen with AK-74s, but they're more likely to have the more modern AK-105s - do you have an AK-74M (with polymer furniture) or the older AK-74 (with wooden furniture)?

There are no national forces which run Multicam Tropic, AFAIK.

The two major current users of Flecktarn, Denmark (which is different than German flecktarn, and is switching to Multicam anyway) and Germany, do not use AK-74s. China uses a variant/copy of Flecktarn for some of its border troops and a summer training uniform, but the AK-74 superficially resembles the Type 56 and Type 81 rifles, and the current service weapon is the QBZ-95. So... unless you want to run a sort of weird and rare variant of Chinese border security impression, that doesn't work either.

Ukraine and Poland uses their own version of Multicam along with weapons that are or sort of look like AK-74s (Tantal and Beryls for the Poles) but their versions of Multicam don't really resemble Multicam Tropic.

What you might want to try for is the somewhat ad hoc looks that Ukrainian fighters adopted during the fighting in the Crimean Peninsula area.

As outlined in this description: http://camopedia.org/index.php?title=Ukraine - there were a lot of really wacky combinations going on over there.

If you're planning on keeping that AK-74, if you want an accurate impression of a member of an official, non-militia/paramilitary national armed forces, there's nothing that really matches the uniforms you have on hand. As noted above, you could use the Flecktarn to be a Ukranian militia/paramilitary fighter, or the ATACS-FG and start building a Russian special forces kit.

Here are some examples:

(note that they're using M4-family carbines!)

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA-JNXE6w1Q

February 6th, 2018, 15:50	#4
Kozure Trader rating Join Date: Mar 2017 Location: Toronto, ON	Hi Erebus - I think the questions you have to ask yourself are: Should I buy a gun to match my uniform? OR Should you buy a uniform to match your gun? If an accurate "impression" is important to you then definitely you should try to be as accurate as you want to be. Keep in mind that I'd say at least 80-90% of Airsofters in typical skirmish game aren't trying to run accurate impressions, and no one is going to 'call' you on anything you wear unless it's patently ridiculous. Now, if you're doing milsims, then yes, accuracy becomes more important, but even then many milsim and milscrim players just go for a PMC-type look. As AS92 mentions, there are a few Russian outfits that run ATACS-FG. Some of them might be seen with AK-74s, but they're more likely to have the more modern AK-105s - do you have an AK-74M (with polymer furniture) or the older AK-74 (with wooden furniture)? There are no national forces which run Multicam Tropic, AFAIK. The two major current users of Flecktarn, Denmark (which is different than German flecktarn, and is switching to Multicam anyway) and Germany, do not use AK-74s. China uses a variant/copy of Flecktarn for some of its border troops and a summer training uniform, but the AK-74 superficially resembles the Type 56 and Type 81 rifles, and the current service weapon is the QBZ-95. So... unless you want to run a sort of weird and rare variant of Chinese border security impression, that doesn't work either. Ukraine and Poland uses their own version of Multicam along with weapons that are or sort of look like AK-74s (Tantal and Beryls for the Poles) but their versions of Multicam don't really resemble Multicam Tropic. What you might want to try for is the somewhat ad hoc looks that Ukrainian fighters adopted during the fighting in the Crimean Peninsula area. As outlined in this description: http://camopedia.org/index.php?title=Ukraine - there were a lot of really wacky combinations going on over there. If you're planning on keeping that AK-74, if you want an accurate impression of a member of an official, non-militia/paramilitary national armed forces, there's nothing that really matches the uniforms you have on hand. As noted above, you could use the Flecktarn to be a Ukranian militia/paramilitary fighter, or the ATACS-FG and start building a Russian special forces kit. Here are some examples: (note that they're using M4-family carbines!) Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA-JNXE6w1Q Last edited by Kozure; February 6th, 2018 at 17:22..