Due to the relative time difference I suffer by being Europe I tend to get lots of free time when the rest of you guys aren't around. In an effort to keep myself occupied, (And out of my wife's hair!) I lock myself away and skin aircraft.
For the most part I try and make the aircraft as accurate as possible while still giving them my personal feel and lots of wear and tear.
Here's some of my latest:
Here's a P-40 Field Mod that I created for the Stalingrad Battle.

One aircraft that we hardly operate but I believe is one of the best looking aircraft of WWII is the Fw-190.


Another aircraft that I really like for its looks has to be the Tempest. So far I've done up 3 different skins for the type; Standard RAF style scheme that most of you have already seen and the two examples below.
Post War Metal Finish:


Special winter scheme with white paint crudely sprayed over the standard RAF scheme.

Here's a Mk.Vb Spitfire in the colour scheme used when the type operated from Malta in 1943.

Another Mk.V Spit in standard RAF markings with checkered nose and advertising the best online squadron to fly the virtual skies. ;)


Now a Mk.VIII in the standard RAF camo of the day. This is still a work in progress. While the over all scheme is complete, I still need to add personalized markings.
One of the easiest aircraft to skin in IL2 has to be the Bf-109. Here's one that I painted up for the Battle of the Bulge. This scheme is based on Italian 109's during 1944.

The same skin again but with black and white tiger skin over its camo.

Something that I think looks great on WWII aircraft is modern style camo patterns. Here's a P-51 in a modern day F-16 style pain scheme.

For the up coming Kursk battle I've been studying some of the Russian units that operated in the theatre and have tried to recreate some of the schemes they employed.
Here's a La-5 and La-5FN.


Here's a Yak-9T.



One project that I have yet to complete is the Mossie. Here's how it's looking so far. Hopefully with a little time I'll be able to complete all of the finishing touches on it.
