The "old school " colours as they are known here were a high gloss ,so was to keep clean, the matt is a tad more difficult.
Our F-1's were not on permanent depolyment to the Angolan theatre, only when major ops were on the go.The SAAF had complete air superiority till later in the war when Angola got MiG 23's with some highly skilled Cuban and even Rusian flyers, then we had to do all our movements by dark. For some or other reason the Angolan "comrades" didn't want their planes to fly at night.
Some might find it interesting that the buff of the old sceeme was very "yellow" and in the African bush yellow is very rare.It looked good at the factory in France though LOL!
We had listning stations that intercepted radio coms between the Angolan/Cuban pilots and their ground stations that they could very easly visually pick up the SAAF planes with the "yellow" and the SAAF changed to the later colours.
On your box art there is a SAAF F-1 AZ with the central bombrack. This is correct , the SAAF did develop a 14 bomb config for the F-1 AZ but it suffered allot form the very hot and high conditions we have here. Most of the contry here has a density alt in summer of arround 8,5 to 9,5 thousand feet on the ground
The F-1 pic I postes was in the colours of the first F1 CZ " Le Spectre" to be painted like that and carries the Angolan kill mark on the nose. The pilot who flew this plane had two confirmed MiG 21 shootdowns with the cannon only!
Sadly we have no more F-1's, but the Grippens are OK!
Also interesting you will see many droptanks are silver (actually NMF) as there was usually no time to paint them - they were discarded before rolling into the attack.Southern Angola must be litered with old tanks!
And that concludes the lesson for today boys and girls LOL!
Theuns