Atlas Cheetah & friends ...

[Cardinalius]

Thanks for the comments on my first post guys. This profiling is just sooo much fun, once you smell the jetfuel, just can't stop. Although I often (read always) come to a clicking dead stop ... cockpit windows, shiny paint, and natural metal surfaces, they do this to me .. always! (and then that shiny black A109 goes and raises the bar, again) I am however, enjoying every minute of this learning process. Thanks again to all the posters here posting, & allowing me to lurk and steal inspiration.

The only downside to this, is the learning curve seems to flatten out a little & things move along faster .. thus whenever I look at any profile I've done before, ... well, they look horrible. So I'm continuously re-doing them. Then only to come back and redo them again .. I hope I'm getting closer to the point that I'm gonna say "thats done for good"

So, here is my current WIP (read hopefully the last), an Atlas/Denel Aviation Cheetah. You can have a look at this start, stop, start, stop, redo ... cycle here. SAAF in Profile

Regards

[AGNT_Matt]

looking a good start that you'd better finish it now, i forgot what airframe the cheetah is i know its a modded mirage but is it a mirage 3 or 4

[Supah]

A mirage 4 is a huge two men nuclear bomber. I think its based of a Mirage 5 but one that was built together with the israeli's with out the french consent

[gamary]

You've got some very nice profiles there, Cardinalius! Keep up the progress! I'll be looking forward to making a SAAF P-51 when my template is finished.

[Cardinalius]

The Cheetah C's were converted from 38 ex Israeli Kfir C2/C7 airframes, which were purchased minus engines. Because of the UN arms embargo against SA, Israel was unable to supply the Kfir's fitted with the American J-79 engine. South Africa subsequently fitted the Cheetah C's with the Mirage F1 Atar engine, as these were being produced locally under licence from France.