[Fisneaky]

I'm dying to ask, how the heck did you do that???
I'm stuck at work for the next ten hours, but I'd love to try that technique out myself.

Btw: Is there any interest in providing extraxcted tga's of individual aircrraft for people to improve?
Imagine having VP skins inside and out, lol.

1) click on posted image and "Save image as"

2) Open in Photoshop, make duplicate layers use remove white/black plugins.

3) save as PSD

4)some more editing in PSP, colourizing etc. adjust layers add patina and scratches

Just need to paste this over a copy of the original .tga and it should work. From other .tga files I've tried it looks like IL2 needs them to be a specific size in kb - well thats how I got the splash screen to work.

Btw: Is there any interest in providing extraxcted tga's of individual aircrraft for people to improve?

I've got the extractor but still figuring out where to look for some of these files. Need the size in pixels and in kb before I can try adding any . Happy to do some edits though.
It might be handy to have something like "Adlabs panel finder" as a tga to help with mapping.