Maybe it's time to show some screenshots. These are of inhabited areas, like Tangiers, Ceuta, Nador, Alhucemas, some hillside villages, an army camp at Monte Arruit ... many of the village/town templates are based on those Uffalkke so competently and eye-catchingly designed for Ifni and a few are also from Redko's MTO map, but they've been sort of been taken apart and juggled and reassembled to make each village or town look somewhat different from each other.
Spanish Morocco is also an interesting area to do, as prior to WWII a large proportion of architecture and building was more in the Mediterranean style instead of the more distinct traditional native Maghreb style. Or often one would find mixes of both in the larger towns. Most large cities also boasted churches and European boulevards, or what passed for them anyway. Places like Melillia were also protected by a series of forts, defensive towers and garrisons. These all make for an interesting element in the map. Ceuta, the other half of the Pillars of Hercules facing Gibraltar also has many medieval architectural elements and has a small waterway connecting the port on the Atlantic side, with the Mediterranean sea. There are also a few open air mines, and some lengths of railroads. The Rif tribesmen also put up trench defenses in the best Great War imitation tradition at likely landing beaches - wrong ones it turned out. These are also placed on the map.
The map is mainly inspired by Interbellum photos, mainly from the 1920's during the Rif rebellion. Luckily there already are a number of aircraft that can feature quite passably for that time period. Thanks to the info provided by juanmalpuente, there are 9 airfields and 1 hydroplane base on the map, all in the correct areas, insofar as possible in Il-2 anyway. Rif aircraft were very few and unreliable so in possible missions, some feats of imagination may be needed in providing aircraft for the hypothetical Rif air force. There already quite a number of aircraft in Rif schemes - supposedly captured from the Spanish.
As for a completion estimate. It is coming along very nicely after at least 5 years of starts and stops and should be ready very soon.
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