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| Subject: | Re: South African Armor, Ratel IFV |  |
| Date: | Mar 4, 2001 |
| From: | Paul Roberts | |
> I'm looking for reference material about SANDF armoured vehicles, especially
> about the Ratel IFV family and about south african Centurion/Olifant MBT's.
> Concerning the Ratel I'm also looking for reference for camouflage colorer
> Vehicles of the 32nd Batallion. As far as I know, they utilised Ratel 90's
> in a tri color scheme, similar to the one used on Rooikat vehicles.
There is a new periodical called "South African Colours and Markings"
produced by Piet Van Schalkwyk and William Marshall. Volume 1 has a 12
page section on the Ratel and with a name like "Colour and MArkings" you
would be right in assuming that there is a lot of such information.
There are 6 colour photos and about 20 colour side and front view
drawings. The vehhicle you are talking about, belonging to the 32 Bttn
has an Anti-Tank Platoon Ratel 90 featured. The colours are a base of
SADF Brown (Humbrol 29) with a veining of Defence Force Green (H 75) and
irregular spots of Pale Stone (H121).
These books are recommended for anyone liking SADF subjects. There are 2
volumes so far and each has a split of 2 aircraft articles and one
vehicle article. Vol 1 has the Mirage F1AZ and the Hurricane as well as
the Ratel. Vol 2 has the P-40 and DdeHAvilland Vampire, a nice piece on
SA Armoured Recce cars (ie the Marmon Herringtons) plus a bonus piece on
Orange Free State uniforms from the Boer War.
They are about US$16 each and available from Mark Klutchko at Michigan
Discount Hobbies (www.discountmodels.com). Their service was first rate!
You can contact Piet at pietvs@netactive.co.za if you are outside North
America for your nearest dealer.
In addition there is a fair set of drawings in Tankette 15/2 and some
nice, if small, overall photos in Tankette 18/1.
HTH
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Paul Roberts
Scale Tech Distributing
Contract Model Makers
tankmodeler@home.com
http://www.tamcotec.com/proberts/ |
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