[F22-Raptor-2006]

Try to use GIMP for skinning, works fine at me.

That probably won't make a difference because of the specific problem your having. What you need to do is download something called Bright (http://www.mediafire.com/?81g4yzdxx3j). What it does is converts the 3mb BMP files (can't remember how many bits this is) into a 1mb file which IL2 can read without changing any of the colours. Put your skin in the Bright folder then click the batch file not the exe file. Once done remove your skin from that folder otherwise it will slow the batch process down the next time you do another skin.