South African Colours & Markings

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The aim of this website is to supply the plastic modeler and historian with some basic colour and markings information regarding South African military equipment through the years. It also supplies information regarding our books, posters and decals. Corporate gifts can be made on request using our researched colour profiles.

     What’s New

06 May 2012. I have now been able to match all the SA Military colours from SABS - CK 1091 of 1975 with the NCS system, this was professionally done by the SABS themselves. I then purchased a number of their colour cards (NCS) and have made up some SA Military Colour Chip Fans. This will come in handy for modelers and such like at air shows and museums to check vehicle and aircraft colours. Currently I have twelve colours chips in the fans which span the most popular colours for military vehicles and aircraft. Herewith some photo’s:.

SABS CK 1091 of 1975                               NCS Colour Chips and the Fandeck

          (Click on image for a larger version)

The SA Military Fan deck will retail at R150.00 per fan deck, these will only be made to order as I have limited colour chips available, please contact me if you are interested in one.

The 6 Div Book Part 2 is complete and printed, I have receive a sample copy and am awaiting the main shipment from Poland within the next two months, so place your order as soon as possible as stocks will be limited.

05 February 2012. Some good news at last! The 6 Division Book, Book  2 Wheeled Vehicles and Artillery, is ready for printing. Remember I will only receive a limited number of these books, so to reserve a copy and not be disappointed later e-mail me as soon as possible. Here is a thumb of the cover.

                                                          

Rhodesian Air Force Helicopters. I have also been able to get hold of some slides showing Rhod Allouette helicopters in the 1970’s bushwar. These I have scanned and uploaded to my Webshots photo album, you will be able to access them here, there are about seven or eight of them, I am always interested in feedback wrt places, dates and the names of people, so if you recognise them please e-mail the detail

http://news.webshots.com/photo/2725911570039564579FAPnGS

Books for Sale. I have two collectable books for sale. They are:

    a.   Eagles Victorious - The SAAF in Italy and the Med 1943-45 by Martin/Orpen.

    b.   SA Forces in WW2 - Vol 1 East Africa and Abyssinia by N. Orpen.

    If you are interested in either or both e-mail me with an offer which has to include postage.

26 December 2011. The last update for this year! We have a “First Look Review” of a new book by Freewold Publications. The book is “Springbok Fighter Victory - SAAF Fighter Operations 1939-45, Victory on all Fronts” by Micheal Schoeman.

Herewith the cover scan of the book. It is always good to see the publication of new SA history related books which deal with the SAAF in WW2.

                                                            

            (To see the complete review click here)

15 November 2011. Added some colour picture documents to my ISSUU site, these are mainly wrt the equipment used by the old Bophuthatswana Defence Force. These documents include vehicle, aircraft, uniforms and badges. They can be accessed at the ISSUU website at www.issuu.com by doing a search for the Bop documents. The quick links are hereby included: To download - registration may be required.

I have also added some historical documents from WW2. These are the translations of the War Diaries of the 90th Light Div of the DAK. They can be found at:

        a.   Part 1   http://issuu.com/mechinf/docs/90-lt-div-ops-part--01

        b.   Part 2   http://issuu.com/mechinf/docs/90-lt-div-ops-part--02

        c.     Part 3    http://issuu.com/mechinf/docs/90-lt-div-ops-part--03

        d.   Part 4   http://issuu.com/mechinf/docs/90-lt-div-ops-part--04

        e.   Orbat in Tactical Symbols http://issuu.com/mechinf/docs/dak_org_tac_-01

           

01 October 2011. Added two new posters to our growing range, the Mirage III in silver and camouflage. Posters go for R25.00 each..

15 September 2011.  A major redesign and update to our site. The addition of some colour information under the Colour tab will allow you to get to some of the digital colour sets we are using for our drawings, download them and use them if you so wish.

We also collect colour information, so if you have any which is about a specific piece of South African equipment, please pass it on and we will include it under the Colour tab.