[straswa]

Yes, you can easily alter the skins of the ships of IL2. I've been tinkering around and made a few carrier skins of my own. You just need the skins themselves, located on this site (should be in the IL2 textures thread), a converter in order to work with the tga files, and an image editing software such as Photoshop.

As for the Ship pack 3, I can't wait. Looks great!