27.05.2009, 11:03
Excellent idea ! I visited Senegal a few years ago, and that's pretty much how I remember the countryside looked like. We so need a Baobab object 
A little note though : IIRC, the infamous 'gold and red' Vichy markings came with the late regulations, after the Syria-Lebanon campaign and were only applied during the last few months before Vichy was invaded (yeah, we got invaded twice...) by the Germans after the Torch landings. They were made famous because that's how planes looked in Morocco and Madagscar when the allies attacked there in 1942, bu in 1940, the Vichy markings would only consist of a white longitudinal stripe on the fuselage.
Recent research showed that in some cases, and especially in Africa, the yellow stripes might have been painted white because of paint shortages, but that's knitpicking
Cheers
Nico
A little note though : IIRC, the infamous 'gold and red' Vichy markings came with the late regulations, after the Syria-Lebanon campaign and were only applied during the last few months before Vichy was invaded (yeah, we got invaded twice...) by the Germans after the Torch landings. They were made famous because that's how planes looked in Morocco and Madagscar when the allies attacked there in 1942, bu in 1940, the Vichy markings would only consist of a white longitudinal stripe on the fuselage.
Recent research showed that in some cases, and especially in Africa, the yellow stripes might have been painted white because of paint shortages, but that's knitpicking
Cheers
Nico