Same

I will be making the SANDF as well since most of the content fits right into the SADF as well

Yeh just the camo and uniforms

Yup

Same R4's, Casspirs etc

And the gripens 👌

Although I do know there are some differences with the older Casspirs and the newer ones. For example the newer Casspirs got rid of the grill mirrors and replaced them with full steel shrouds

I love how they just took the late cheetahs camo and said lets slap that on a gripen lol

I haven't seen that. Where do you keep up to date with the SANDF stuff?

I watch airahow and demos on youtube

Ah alright. Same here just haven't seen the Cheetah camo on the Gripen.

Impact

Cheetah E

This camo

Ah I thought you were talking about this - https://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/3/8/6/1810683.jpg?v=v40

Nah lol im talking the real camo not the demo camo

That thing melts in the sky

Looks quite decent not bad. Interesting though they no longer use the old two tone camouflage?

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/upload/iblock/b4c/SAAF_M2K_2SQ_1.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b7/80/8f/b7808f0ac63c05cdb232bfb293d14777.jpg

So we planing to make cheetha to?

If only squad had jets lol

Maaaaybe... Down the line? Thing is if jets don't make it into vanilla Squad that means it would be more difficult to import into Squad and work properly.

So pray jets come... (unlikely though).

Old camo is nice but they did a study late 80s that showed its not really necesary

But the impala, bosbok and mirage FCZ and other variants played a major role in the war so it would be weird without them....

Hey we might be getting heli's since there are mods for it so its likely

So they went US style but gave it a two tone to break up the shape

Helis are in dev atm

On squad vanilaa

Ja helis are coming definitely for vanilla which will make it easy to import custom helicopter models and reuse their framework

You might be able to make a deal with the french mod for the pumas

Maybe but honestly I'd rather model it myself

I get that

the Puma as I'd need to modify it down the line

Respect that

For the Atlas Oryx

Allouette?

@ZATr0ll Alouette will be in as well if you're wondering.

Some progress on the Eland 60 and 90.

Starting to shape up nicely now. Been a challenge so far and will continue to be til they are complete.

Early WIP of the Ratel 90.

Proportions seem a little off on the front which'll be sorted out soon enough.

looks good for a beginning model

Ja not a bad box out

Hahaha luckily not a lot of round surfaces

Yup the round surfaces are what makes things a biatch to model! Ratel has none of that.

hehe

Hey guys, been a bit busy purchasing the new parts of my new computer (that I will soon build once I receive all my parts) so I haven't had much time to work on the Ratel so I did a bit tonight! I'd like to go further but I've got to end it short here as I have to be up early.

FYI: The metal grid around the light at the top was for the preproduction Ratel. A couple, 20 I think, was delivered like that to the army for testing and evaluation. First production batch had it removed and moved lower down.

Some nice info here.
http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/coldwar/South_Africa/ratel/

Great catch man! Ja I noticed the difference in headlight positions and guards for them.

The one in the museum is a Mk I preproduction I think

Took these photos of it back in 2015.

This one has both lights at the top and bottom from what it looks like.

Triangular guard on the top

This one with no lights on the top only at the bottom.

ZT3 with lights on the top and bottom?

Ja. Seems to be a standard thing in the SA army. Mk-1 = preproduction and Mk-2 = production onwards. That is a deduction not a fact.

Looks like a MK I here with the preproduction guard as you mentioned.

This one has an oddly shaped top light guard.

Another Mk I?

Another triangular guard one.

I'd like to match the different versions as best as I can so depending on the map and the Op it is set in the vehicles would match that year and thus model

That hump thing on top I think is close formation lights? Driving at night without lights?

Cool. The Mk-1 were evaluated in the actual war, so...

True well the idea is to include both the Mk I and the other variants albeit how accurate I'll get them is something I've yet to determine due to lack of information on the differences between all the Mks but I'll give it my best shot.

Cheers for the information @PetraCephas always great to learn more from you 😉

Another day, another bunch of renders!

Some decent progress on the Ratel today.