CJ there are some great tutorials at this site:
http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/
I just started playing around with skins and found that site to be very good. Have not tried skinning in CFS3 or OFF yet, but did manage my first skin in IL-2.
Hope I Helped,
John
Here's some more skins. Instead of starting a new thread, I used ROOSTER's old one - maybe some of our newbies haven't seen them yet.
The "Wespe" (wasp) looks rather cute - I wanted it dangerous, but failed there.
The "Milan" (red kite) is mottled like the German WW2 fighters, but I saw, that some did mottling in WW1 already. Enjoy.