Oof

looking very nice

Anyone know what those "lids" are for at the top rear of the Ratel?

The rectangular shaped ones. That are on the top rear left side of the vehicle.

Little bit more progress today.

* Cut hole for the rear escape door.

* Added driver's window shields.

* Cut hole in bottom storage compartment below the side doors.

* Added base head lights.

* Added bulletproof glass to side viewports.

* Added bolts or knobs or whatever they are to the driver's front window frame, still lacking on the two side windows though.

* Cut hole for engine compartment ventilation and engine access area on the rear of the Ratel.

The hatch top left are the hatches to the engine compartment. I have includes and interior shot also.
Hope this helps?

@PetraCephas Excellent! Thank you so much. This will help a ton!

Another update on the Ratel.

* Switched out the turret for the 20mm just so I can get both the 20 and 90 at more or less the same progress level.

Worked a bit more on the interior. It's a bit of guess work at the moment as I only have a few angles of the interior of the ratel in my reference folder.

PS: The weird looking faces where the door opening and other openings are is because I forgot to triangulate the Ngon areas for marmoset. Marmoset freaks out with Ngons and does that weird stuff.

These are my interior references.

Nice

I need more interior reference images though as I have no idea what the floor of the ratel looks like

Also the differences between the Ratel 90, 20, 81, CMD and ZT3 interiors is going to be a lot of guess work as I know they are different as described in some of the books I've read.

That's the one specific issue with modeling South African content. There is a serious lack of reference material out there compared to the US and Russian stuff 😬

Lol pretty much true for everyone except the big 3

Did some more modeling on the Galil, R4 and R5 last night.

Didn't make as much progress on it as I'd liked to. Will give it another session tonight and hopefully make some significant progress on it so it can be included in this month's Wrench.

@Kooijpolloi Those references have helped a ton so far. Still a long way to go on this though...

Glad to help

R5 doesnt have bipod or bipod lugs btw

Yup. I'll have to remove those parts on the R5

Cool cool 😁

Was the R5 reserved exclusively for pilots and crewmen or did regular infantry also have the option to use them?

Special forces

R4 was issued to everyone else

I mean it folds up it pretty compact

R5 was also used by pilots and crewmen right?

Nope

R4

Pilots mostly had pistols

Ah alright

Do you know exactly when the R4 was adopted?

As so far I haven't got a clue

Not mentioned in any of the books I've read thus far...

83-84

85 all the combat units had R4

Im sitting with my dad and a pal if i should ask them any questions?

Alright lekker, I needed to know because I want get the equipment more or less accurate per operation of course not every operation will be featured as not all of them were major ops

Yes yes

Ja I have a few questions on my mind right now

Shoot my man

I've found a couple of images of the Unimog soft skinned vehicle in use in SWA were these used quite often? As I'm not sure whether to include them or not as the Buffel is pretty much the same thing just with the armoured cabin.

It may just be a waste of time and resources to include this if it wasn't used in high numbers.

Second question.

Was the Y2 MGL widely issued? I only have a few references of it and nothing more. I'd like to know what units and roles were they issued to and what time frame? 80's?

Unimogs are early war, after 86 only SF in mozam used mogs

You could maybe just use the buffel

Ja I may consider doing the soft skin Unimog down the line just to flesh out the SADF early war period a bit but it's not a priority at the moment

Have you shown them my Buffel and other vehicles?

Snotneus was only issued to fighting units as far as they know

My dad only used it when they were attached to 62 mech

Wasn't the Snotneus the M79?

Or was the "snotneus" nickname also applied to the Milkor Y2 MGL?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQmO8hcl258/TH6t4S7OlbI/AAAAAAAAAoA/00Yh-E5V7NM/s1600/66.1.JPG

My Milkor Y2 MGL still work in progress. Been awhile since I worked on it though as I was preoccupied with the other models.

They applied snotneus to all GLs

Ah alright good to know

And it was issued after 83-84 as well

They started using more MAGs per unit as well

More mortars as well

Lots of 60mm

The M26 grenade was also used by troops correct? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/M-61Grenade.jpg

Yes m26

Was the writing on the grenade in English or Afrikaans? Since I believe they were locally manufactured the writing on the grenades if there was any may have differed from the US version? Might be something difficult to recall though.

It's the small details like this that while not super important are nice to get right.

English

Okay cool. That's about it for now, thanks man.

All english

Cool cool

wait

unimogs in africa

Ja the SADF used plenty of them. The Buffel uses a Unimog chassis

superb vehicles

german engineering

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progress so far today.

* Galil

* R4

* R5

Still plenty of issues with bad proportions and such. As some stuff I've done by eye. I made the mistake of going too detailed too soon on this which is biting me in the arse now.

Current line up of WIP vehicle models.

Eland door holes look weird because they're N-gons which causes artifacts in Marmoset as well as UE4. They need to be turned into quads.

either way it all looks very nice my man

I wish they were all done already 😩 but it takes a hell of a lot of time and effort to get to that stage.

Going to be a dream come true though seeing these in action in Squad.

You and me both

My shitty little test hut to see how buildings work in the SDK.

Looks like something from rural Lesotho

But not that bad

Ja didn't really put much effort into it since it's just a test

There will be huts and such for kraals as there were plenty in SWA and southern Angola. Of course concrete structures will also be included for the larger towns such as Cassinga, Ondjiva etc.

Will have to do some research on those places though to figure out what kind of structures they had. Also will see what I can do with real world topography using World Machine and Google Maps

Ahh ok so these will only be scattered about?

They'll be concentrated in rural villages

No lone huts

Ok cool

Something like this -

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fd/91/7c/fd917c8aee46feef5c400423bff0e85c.jpg

Aahh ok and will they be widely spaced between settlement to settlement? But nothing extreme?

As in large distances from one village to another?

Yeah

Ja probably. It depends on the area where the map is for example the Cassinga map would feature Cassinga and depending on how large the map itself is it may include other surrounding villages.

Some maps in Squad are based on real world locations such as Skorpo (name may be wrong) which was made by Zeno. I'll seek advice from him when I get to making the actual maps since I want the maps to be based on real world locations using real world satellite data.

So rivers will be exactly where they are in reality and their shape as well

Of course there may be some liberties taken if necessary.

Ahh ok wicked yeah cause 1 to 1 scale will be impossible

Ja the scale would likely be off as Zeno's map is as well. I'm a total noob when it comes to map making so I'm talking out of inexperience at the moment. Once I start tackling that we'll see what happens.

Ueah nah dont worry i have no knowledge of map making other that building weird shit age of empires and stuff

And Building your own little maps to do skermishes on for wow

Oh man this is looking great!

damn damn daaamn

those 2 armored cars with 90mms

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@kappa007 They're awesome hey? They pack a hell of a punch capable of taking out T-34'85s and T-55's (the latter at close range)

You haven't seen the ZT3 variant yet 😉

i mean t34's should be ez

but t55 were pretty well armored

Did you guys see the minimap

<:eyess:355505317125292044> zt3

show mee

ZT3 variant

81 variant

Another ZT3

These were introduced towards the last days of the war. They did bloody well. They took out several T-55's in the Battle of the Lomba IIRC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JnHOS8SIPE voice comms of a Ratel ZT3 taking out enemy tanks.

interesting to hear

Basic box out of the G6 Rhino.

Nothing much to see at the moment hope to bring it up to the same level of detail as the other vehicles in the pipeline in the next few days.

Ooof

She is a beast 😍

@Springbok carry handle 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢

😛 The early ones had em

Don't worry Kooij they won't be on the R4 just the Galil

Ill take your word for it 😁

Will post a pic of SADF using the wood grip galil with the ugly carry handles 😋

PUUUUUKKKEEEE

No carry handles on that though

You can see it in his eyes

The self hate

Smh poor guy

😂

This little buggy is pretty cool. Never found any other pics of it though.

Lol its a parts kit built on a vw beetle engine

Literally a beach buggy

See lots of them in the western cape in holiday season

Ah alright

Would be a fun little easter egg to have so a big maybe in the future

Lol id rather have a jakkals

Ja Jakkals will come in at some point

🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤢

Y u do dis

I agree I do prefer the polymer grip R4's

than the wood grip it's gross

Thank fuck the licenses were only like 2 years

Oh and the carry handle 😄

Hahahahha yeah

Your model is looking great tho you need any more pics let me know

Sure thing will let you know 😉

nice

It's unlikely I'll include an interior for the whole G6 though as I have no idea what it looks like inside. The only interior will be the driver's compartment

It's going to be seriously OP 😄

Dont really know how you can ever balance it tho

It can only fire 2 rounds a minute IIRC

Lol wut

No

Burst is 8

Wut!? jislaaik

Then 4 continuous

They won't be on every map

But yeah i mean they are going to add commander called arty

only where they were historically

So maybe unusable asset that just shoots on command?

And very few in number. So I don't think they will respawn once destroyed

Nah I want it useable

I mean

Because I know... If I made it so you could not drive it people would be begging for me to make it driveable

Playing arty is pretty boring 😂

I get that

Not when you can drive around and shoot at tanks 😛

Apparently due to the size of the round itself it could take out enemy tanks if needed

http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol091ig.html

Never used on a G6

Happened to a battery og G5 once

uring 1987 Cuban and FAPLA forces were concentrated in the east of Angola known to them as 5th Military District. Operations launched by them were aimed at destroying UNJTA, including their main base at Jamba. As a counter-measure, the SADF undertook Operation Modular in aid of UNITA which lasted from 1 July to 15 December 1987. This was followed up by Operation Hooper and culminated in Operation Packer which ended in March 1988. During this period two G5 batteries were employed, playing a prominent role in destroying enemy forces. During these operations it was found that the HE projectiles of the G5 could be used to great effect against the T-55 tanks employed by the opposing force. Between 20 and 30 tanks were in this way put out of action by the G5s. It was also found that when an HE projectile hit the ground and detonated 15 in from a tank, chances were good that the tank concerned would be disabled. The enemy had no tactical equipment that could withstand the 155 mm shell of the G5. After Operation Packer, a further operation took place in south eastern Angola. This was Operation Displace during which the G5 was also used.(51)

Yes G 5 i met a guy who was in that battery

I'd like to model the G5 but it's way more complicated than the G6

I know my history 😁

Lol now that i want to drive around

😉 I know you do hence why you're an advisor.

I'd do the G5 but I have no blueprint of it

So it may come but later on.

Taking my pet G5 for a stroll

I've seen both the G6 and G5 at the war museum in Joburg

Ive seen them in action a few times