Ok, lets start that camo on the gunner figure. My brown base color is on and I will start off with the same light ghost grey from a Testors aircraft colors piant set. Sometimes, I will set the paint jar upside down so that the thicker, flatter paint will settle to the top and when I take the cap off, some of that flatter paint is on the inside of the lid for me to dip into. Using my fine brush, I am making some natural shapes while trying to make the coverage of the grey thick enough that you can't see the brown through it. I try to space the shapes apart some while not putting two of the same shapes next to each other. Now, I come back to it using some flat black, thin enough that I can apply it with a very light stroke but thick enough that it wont run all over the place. Using the black, I make a thin outline around the grey shapes and slightly overlapping into them rendering the outside edge of the black color squared and spikey. I also dab some spike shapes into the grey area. I then come back with the grey again, and touch up anywhere that I got too carried away with the black also putting some of the spikey shapes into the black with the grey. next, I come back with the brown and touch up the outside, cleaning up any areas where the black ran too wide over the brown. I have tried just applying the darker color, in this case, black on first and then coming back with the lighter color on the inside but it didn't turn out spikey enough for me which kind of reminds me of a leaf pattern. This camo, by the way, isn't representitave of any pattern that I have seen before but I kind of like it. I have tried to emulate actual patterns before with varied results. Doing it this way takes a while but it seems less intimidating if I take it in small chunks like I did here.
