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