IL-2 Model 1941 skins

[216th_Peterla]

Hi gents,

 

I made a small skin pack with 3 aircrafts(source: Sovietwarplanes.com) reflecting IL2 Early model 1941 of 4th ShAP. I used the basic template provided by 777, just adding the ID Numbers and changing the location of the stars. The aircrafts are Number 2-5, 4-2 and 6-3. Here is a small part of the information found in Massimo's page. All the credits go to Massimo Tessitori and his excellent work:

 

"...Photos of an Il-2 of 4th ShAP captured on the airfield of Old Bychau in summer 1941.

The most of prewar-style Il-2s are known only from photos taken by Germans to planes captured or wrecked during the first weeks of war.

The most of these photos show planes with metallic rear fuselage and stabilizator, that are recognizable because:

• the green painting appears uniform between front and rear fuselage;
• the light blue appears uniform between the rear fuselage and tail fillet;
• both stabilizator and rear fuselage show horizontal ondulations due to riveting and sheets junctions.

In facts, these planes were all built in Zavod 18, that was the only one authorized to produce some hundreds of planes with metallic rear fuselage as an interim measure because it lacked of tools and experience for the wood manufacturing.

Prewar Il-2s, of all-metal construction, were painted with alkyd paints:

• A-19f gloss green on upper and side surfaces
• A-18f gloss light blue on undersurfaces.

This early Il-2 damaged and captured by Germans is similar to the drawing above. Note the code made by numbers 5 and 2.

Before the war outbreak the bort numbers were usually painted on the rudder in many colors: white, red, blue, dark red, light green-blue etc. Yellow was very utilized before the war outbreak, but its use was much reduced after the summer 1941 because it was the distinctive color of the axis forces..."

 

I add some pictures for reference but more can be found there. Visit the page to find more of those early paint schemes.

Regards,

Peter

 

Download link: https://app.box.com/s/w91w9999uk389zvpz7gsldoi7r0a1e95

 

Edit: The tail boom stars are properly aligned with the ones on the drawings(in the pics they look higher that they are); the screens were taken before the correction.

Edited February 3, 2016 by peterla

[71st_AH_Mastiff]

thank you, are the 37mm portion fixed correctly with the cartridge dispenser slot problem corrected?

 

Never mind I see 1941 version lol.

Edited February 3, 2016 by 71st_Mastiff

[Yankee_One]

Hi Peter,

 

great you made some of them. Excellent job. Thank you!

 

S!

[216th_Peterla]

Hi folks,

 

I adapted a skin made for the IL2M42 but that originally pertains here, to the early 1941 production model.

The aircraft was pictured on the airfield of kirovograd, September 1941. Here you can find more details(It's Mr Tessitori's place): http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/il-2/il2-camo/il-2early1941/il2-early1941.htm

To be honest I was thinking that to port the template to one aircraft to other will be easy but unfortunately the IL241template is smaller than the 1942 and you need to re-escalate the layers one by one or merge all together and redraw the joining lines(that was my option). Here I attached some screens. All the credits to Maximo for his research and excellent work.

 

A curious thing about the template: when you select the VY2-23 Guns as an option, you loose the armored glass headpanel and the acrylic rear cockpit, the ailerons are no longer metallic and the right landing light is deleted. Nice options here.

 

Download link: https://app.box.com/s/qlo5ule3d27rrhd36494slazo8bvqdds

Edited February 8, 2016 by Peterla

[Boomerang]

Beautiful ^ work ^ Peter, thank you .
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Works in progress: No 2 & No 5 of 61 ShAP.

What I have achieved so far: Edited the layers within the original IL2M41_Public.zip.
Blue line on rear fuselage was altered, Red Stars where subtracted and repositioned, Front spinner painted green, the No 5, (and what appears to be an "S"), & No 2's where hand painted. (these numbers need to be repositioned and checked, will do in the near future)
Also:  A-19f, A-18f colours were adjusted to look slightly faded, weathered etc. (within the original layers).

Coming soon:

Edited February 9, 2016 by Boomerang

[Boomerang]

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/download/51tm1xrbnbcbs89/IL2M41_2_5_of_61ShAP_2PlanePack.7z

The .7z with both planes is named: IL2M41_2_5_of_61ShAP_2PlanePack.7z

Edited February 21, 2016 by Boomerang

[JGr2/J5_W0LF-]

Nice work guys!

[216th_Peterla]

Excellent work Boomerang!

[Yankee_One]

Nice work guys!!

 

Glad to see and own some early IL-2 skins!

 

Thanx

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

I have one in progress with gray camo.  Another day or two.

[216th_Peterla]

Hi all,

Here it is a simple winter livery skin, with a red number 4 in the rudder. Here you can find more info about the plane: http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/il-2/il2-camo/il2-late1941/il2-late1941.htm

 

Download link: https://app.box.com/s/t8dlc0g6z1yz38vgp76xzqz1a5b20ktq

 

[Yankee_One]

Very nice skin Peter, you made another great job mate.

Very good on the weathering. Nice details.

 

Thank you!!

Edited March 5, 2016 by LcSummers

[216th_Peterla]

Very nice skin Peter, you made another great job mate.

Very good on the weathering. Nice details.

 

Thank you!!

Thanks LC, I only change the color on the template, move the stars and add the number on the tail. The 777 template is excellent. Thanks to Jason and the artistic department. You can clearly see the progress in the different templates of the aircrafts. The latest ones are usually more detailed.

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

I came across several images of this style of camo for this model of the IL-2 and liked it.

 

Info from VVS research.  http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/il-2/il2-camo/il2-late1941/il2-late1941.htm

 

Red (?) 12 follows the camo pattern with 'balls', but it seems to have a metal rear fuselage. The pattern is particularly sharp, and the characteristic black balls on the fuselage sides are evident. The plane lacks of the characteristic wide red stars on the fuselage sides.

..snip..

One can see the characteristic camo that was utilized by Zavod 18 only for a brief period, probably in July 1941, and was later resumed by Zavod 30 in 1942.

 

 

My interpretation of Red 12:

 

 

 

 

I assumed earlier gloss lacquer paints, thus no matte finish, although you will see it on some control surfaces.  I still toned down the reflections from the default alhpa.

 

REVISED Download link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nb1c2wrj4g297dj/IL2M41_Red_12.dds?dl=0

 

 

Cheers!

Edited March 7, 2016 by 12.OIAE_Stick-95

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

Oops...  I forgot to activate the wood chip layer before I finalized it.  Corrected and link revised above.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Yankee_One]

Nice work, like thia skin

 

Well done Stick

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

Thanks LcSummers.

 

I decided to also do a version of White 19.

[216th_Peterla]

@Stick,

Number 12 is very nicely done; I like the camo and the care you put on the joining lines between the different parts of the template. Good job.

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

Thanks Peter.  Don't get me wrong, having these templates is great but I found this to be one of the most challenging templates to work with.  Getting the camo to come together in the tail section was a bear.  You must have had fun getting everything to match up with that multi-camo skin.  Very interesting template with the "two" planes in one.

 

The other skins here are looking great.  Good job everyone.  I'll have White 19 ready in a few days.

[Yankee_One]

Great job gentlemen.

 

cool, i think Peter have had some "headache" too but now he is a master of the IL-2.

 

My dream is to get one time my favorite Il-2, the ARROW as Jason, Mr. Moore mentions in his book. Its great, so much infos in there.

 

So, lets wait for white 19. I like multi camo skins.

 

Yellow 9 is an interesting one, with the green gras spinner. I like the colored photo.

 

See you both

 

Salute

 

LC

Edited March 11, 2016 by LcSummers

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

White 19 - ready for prime time (I hope).

 

Source:  http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/il-2/il2-camo/il2-late1941/il2-late1941.htm

Quote

 

White 19 of 174 ShAP . The sliding hood looks strange, as if it was an early one with an armoured band on its front.

The camouflage looks compatible with the one of Zavod 18, apart for the tail vertical surface that has a fully atypical black contour.

It's likely that the plane had the front of the spinner painted red, as other ones of the same unit.

(From Il-2 in action-Squadron Signal)

 

 

Revised screenshot:

 

 

Same coloration and finish as Red 12.

 

Updated version download link:  Now available on Haluter’s Skin Downloader. Link: https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/70078-haluter’s-skin-downloader-for-the-il-2-sturmovik-great-battles-series/

 

Cheers!

Edited March 13, 2021 by VBF-12_Stick-95

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

**bump**  White 19 download link now available above.

 

You would think this thread would get pinned with the other skin threads.

Edited March 12, 2016 by 12.OIAE_Stick-95

[216th_Peterla]

Excellent work again!

[VBF-12_Stick-95]

Thanks Peter

[[CPT]Pike*HarryM]

Beautiful skin. 

[Learstang]

Superb work all, gentlemen and thank you for the mention, LC! It's interesting how the changes are made to the template when you go to the later armament of the VYa-23 23-mm cannons. Those changes are all correct except for the metal-covered ailerons changing to fabric-covered - my research has led me to believe that all of the metal-winged single-seaters had metal-covered ailerons. It was only when the aileron/flutter balances (the things that stick out near the wingtips) were removed on the straight-winged two-seater were the ailerons changed to fabric-covered, which they remained to the end of the production of the Il-2, whatever the wing-covering was.

 

Best Regards,

 

Jason

[Boomerang]

Hello everyone,

 

I posted a couple of these early birds here in the past, and decided to do another pass on them.

 

I think these look better than the previous ones I did, so if anyone is interested feel free to download and share them around.

They both now have a custom Alpha Channel  I also chose to redo the No 5, (it appears a better match to the historical image)

The red stars, and paint chipping show the effect by adding custom layers to the alpha channel. 

 

Link: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/c7aycv4ku5vmp/Plane_Skins

 

Regards,

 

 

 

 

 

[Trooper117]

The link to the older files is invalid... I have to say I prefer them to the newer ones. Can we have a link to the older files?

[Boomerang]

The original colours of : A-19f and A-18f have been restored just today. What did you prefer about the previous files, if you don't mind me asking Trooper?

S! 

[Trooper117]

Hi mate, I just liked the originals general overall colour... I'm no expert and I don't know which one is the more historical colour wise, but I liked the first one more.

[Boomerang]

Hi mate, I just liked the originals general overall colour... I'm no expert and I don't know which one is the more historical colour wise, but I liked the first one more.

 

Hi Trooper,

I made a "Rust" brush and just had to try it out  . ​ Hope you like your newer  file, (btw, thanks for the previous feed back on the colours, it was a hard choice to make).

​S!

[Trooper117]

Yes, looks great now

[Sketch]

There's not enough IL2 skins, so I've made a Sloth Racer. Yep, this bad boy travels at the speed of slow. Enjoy!

 

 

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Download Link

 

 

[Trooper117]

Yes, he's in the house!

[szelljr]

...my first hand painted numbers...

[szelljr]

..Ahaaaa...the white is shine ,the greeeen is matt..(alpfa layer)

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

Hey hate how did you take the 3 view pictures

some auto way or you just take 3 pics then remove the background and paste all 3 together.

[Trooper117]

..Ahaaaa...the white is shine ,the greeeen is matt..(alpfa layer)

 

That's a really nice looking skin!

[ICDP]

IL-2 Model 1941 generic 4096x4096 (4k) skinpack link.  Includes 3x generic skins

• Green
• Green & dark green camo
• Green & black camo

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/go1aw4ohm2hvvrr/IL2M41_4k_Skinpack.zip?dl=0

 

Link fixed

 

Please bear in mind that the screenshots attached are all jpegs and as such their quality is much lower than you get in sim.

Edited February 27, 2017 by ICDP

[E69_julian57]

Thanks, ICDP you are a machine making skins