Here are some skin viewer screenshots of the skins I've done for the Brewster. The two Finnish skins were requests from Wmaker and Camo, who supplied much of the information I used to skin the default aircraft. The RAF skin is for myself, as I expect to be flying the Brewster from time to time in the MA and I like to have a British skin on my aircraft. Wmaker has asked me to do BW-393 as well, apart from that I'll wait until other skinners have had a chance to claim schemes before committing to any other skins.
The RAF aircraft was flown by Pilot Officer P. M. Bingham-Wallis from 67 Squadron and fought in Burma in December 1941. It has the half black and half sky underside theater markings typical of RAF Brewsters at that time. I've reskinned the interior for this aircraft as well, giving it English labelling and a green primer rather than silver and black finish.
BW-372 was flown by Lieutenant Lauri Pekuri of 2/LeLv 24. This aircraft was bounced by what was probably a Mig 3 while it was returning to base at low level from a mission over an enemy airbase. The Soviet pilot set the left fuel tank on fire but then overshot. Lt Pekuri was able to shoot down his attacker before ditching his burning plane in a lake. He managed to walk back to his own lines and continued to fly until he was shot down and captured in 1944 having scored 10.5 kills up to that point. There is a fuller description of BW-372's last flight here:
http://www.warbirdforum.com/pekuri.htmHis plane was recently recovered from the lake in remarkably good condition and is now on display at the Aviation Museum of Central Finland, Tikkakoski, Finland. You can see photos of this aircraft here:
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/feature/photoreports/bw-372_photos/
BW-386 was flown by Flight Sergeant Sakari Ikonen of 4/LeLv 24, who was Camo's godmother's father. Ikonen achieved 5 3/4 kills during the war, shooting down one ARK-3 flying boat and one Mig-3 while flying the BW-386.
