Ok so whats next?

[Lagarto]

AI escorts should be somehow tied down to the bombers/reconnaissance aircraft they're supposed to protect. As it is now, they all leave their charges high and dry to engage whatever passes by. It would be great to see them chase off any threat and resume their position. Or perhaps one flight could engage and the other remain with the bombers/reconnaissance aircraft. That's how it worked in real life.
Also, some AI fighters - notoriously I-16s - fire unrealistically long bursts, especially when engaging bombers. They actually hose them with bullets! In real life they would have ruined the rifling of their gun barrels.

[Luno13]

Thanks Icefire.

I'll have to start looking for some real references. The stuff I posted is just secondary. Those guys who made the 3-views and models, etc. have studied real paint-chips and factory directives.

I like to build models, so I do sometimes pay attention to that kind of stuff.

I bring this up because I have absolutely no skill at painting skins. The most work I've done is to cut up other artists' works or alter the colors with curves in GIMP.

As you've already noticed, DT have been upgrading many skins and altered the code to allow for many options that vary based on map, date, etc. Since it's impossible to change the skin of AI for DGEN missions, etc, it would be great if a talented artist could continue the work on the defaults (Remember the sickly green of pre 4.09 Ju-87s et al.? Now the RLM 70/71/65 actually looks right.)

[ElAurens]

The so called "splinter" paint scheme was done a long time ago, I can't remember who the skinner was.

The real thing was designed by the NKAP.

[CzechTexan]

Luno13 mentioned fixing the tube sight and I think he has a good idea. I love flying the older planes that have it but i HATE using that sight. Can something be done to change how it works?