Burning Sands: Africa '42

[MehMan]

Hello everybody. I'd like to reserve this spot for a WW2 North Africa (mini) mod which will cover the North African battlefield, in the first release it'll be fictional because currently I am the only one working on it, with a bit of help from Sgt. Anderson and another member of the mod who modeled a soldier for us, Redmond.

Well for the first release, or R1, we'll be going in small, as we are planning for a small scale mod at first, with only a few units and one island. Currently we plan to do one armour unit and APC unit for each side, ones that match each other in capabilites as much as possible, while keeping historical accuracy.

The time shall be set somewhere around mid/late 1942.

The island will be fictional in R1, in later release as the mod grows we hope to include a real part of North Africa to better represent our mod.

Also we hope to include more tanks, APCs, weapons in general to enlarge the mod.

In R1 we shall cover only the ground units, while I hope to have some planes in R2 at least.

We can always use members to help us out, currently the biggest problem is the texturing, as most of the modeling is done and I have lots of texturing to do.

So if you can:

-Model and texture
-Code
-Make islands

send me a PM or email me at: errormuncher[at]gmail[dot]com

Just replace the [at] with @ and [dot] with .

We are also looking for a place for our soon to be website that will be able to host our mod and screenshots.

And now for some WIP renders, I warned you, these are works in progress, so don't expect super great stuff yet, some of these are in the old state because I am simply too lazy to upload newer renders, or make better renders since I'd rather complete the weapons and show you something decent.

Well anyway, model shots:

Quote[/b] ]The Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251 (SdKfz 251) half-track was an armored fighting vehicle built by Germany during World War II. They were produced throughout the war.

The first two models were produced in small numbers. The C variant had a larger production run, but was a quite complex vehicle to build, involving many angled plates that gave reasonable protection from small arms fire. The D version utilized a much simpler design, and can be easily recognised by its single piece sloping rear (with flat doors).

The standard personnel carrier version was equipped with a 7.92 mm MG34 or MG42 machine gun mounted at the front of the open compartment, above and behind the driver. A second machine gun was usually mounted
at the rear on an anti-aircraft mount.

Quote[/b] ]The MG 34 was used as the primary infantry machine gun during the 1930s, and remained as the primary tank and aircraft defensive weapon. It was intended that it would be replaced in infantry service by the related MG42, but there were never enough of the new design to go around, and MG 34s soldiered on in all roles until the end of World War II. It was intended that it would replace the MG-13 and other older machine guns, but these ended up still being used in WWII as demand was never met.

Thompson M1928



SMLE No.1 MKIII*



German Soldier WIP

Any C&C on these models will help us make the mod better. Even if you are rough.

[JdB]

The triggerguard on the Enfield shows a small gap where you can look through (not fully attached).

[Pic]

Edit: a long time there are no mods about the war in North Africa during WW2 to be found, and in 1 day, there are 2

[MehMan]

Ah yes, I already fixed that, but thanks for spotting none the less.

Well, I chose Africa because it hasn't been raped over and over again and it offers brits. We hope to do the Pacific too someday, but I think there's already an ArmA mod for that.

[Mabes]

Good work, defiantly looking forward to seeing more about this. I posted this on the front page of Total Armed Assault for you, so hopefully you'll get some people offering their help.

[MehMan]

EDIT:

Look at the first post.

[Col. Faulkner]

Your British weapons are rather untypical
for your chosen period and theatre.
Neither the Sten machine carbine nor the
No. 4 rifle were on widespread issue in N.
Africa in 1942. 2nd Army in N.W. Europe had
priority for both these weapons. Only 1st
Para Bde had them on general issue in N.
Africa (in Algeria and Morocco) at the very
end of 1942. Otherwise, only a very few
were used in N. Africa (particularly by 78th
Inf Div of 1st Army - formed in May 1942 -
in Tunisia). 8th Army, for example, never
got Stens issued at all until 1944.

[MehMan]

I am aware of the issue with the sten, I added it for to balance the MP40 and add a bit of variety. For the no. 4, I thought it was widely used in NA? But if you have a replacement for the sten and the no. 4, I'd be glad to model those.

Historical accuracy sadly isn't our second name right now. But we can improve on that.

[alloisi]

i have a wip model for your mod!
My Webpage

[Abs]

I think you guys should take his model.

They're all looking really good, btw.

Abs

[Curatalo]

Wow, nice job guys.

these things are lookin sexy