[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Pursuivant

It's pure eye candy, but would it be possible to have different default paint schemes for planes in Southwest Pacific Theater? From 1943 on RNZAF, RAAF and USAAF planes all had white tails and (sometimes) white diagonal recognition strips on their planes.

Also, would it be possible to improve the default numbers on the Soviet Aircraft? At least later in the war, it appears that Soviet planes had numbers which looked a lot "prettier" than the numbers in the game, sometimes with elaborate serifs:

http://www.warbirdphotographs.com/VVS1/Yak-9D0-1.jpg

http://www.goaviator.com/wp-content/...sociation1.jpg

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/7771/kozhedubfi2.jpg

http://www.allworldwars.com/image/077/IL-2Bg.jpg

http://www.small-wonder.org/Books/Il..._Air_126_2.jpg

Personally, I think that the elongated numbers shown in the first picture are most distinctively Russian, but I'm no expert.

Markings and camo is a big bugaboo for me as well. Oleg's response was always that IL-2 was an aircraft simulator and not a marking simulator but I would have loved to see them pay more attention to them from the beginning.

TD has made some great strides but I'd love to see more default skins covering more time and theatre periods. The code is now in place but getting together a cadre of skinners to do all of the work isn't exactly an easy thing to do. It is a lot of work and to do it right it should be coordinated.

I believe it was Cpt Farrel who did all of the German aircraft... top to bottom in one of the recent updates. Which is why all of the German aircraft are now A) Excellent and B) Very consistent. I'd love to see that done again for all other types.