'Flight' from ValeryN - Soviet Aircraft

In the game system «Flames of War», to which I am now mainly playing, aviation is not an independent unit, but only provides support to troops on the battlefield. But with successful rolls of dice, it can solve a lot in the game (unless, of course, it is not destroyed by enemy anti-aircraft guns).

Therefore, I could not leave my Soviet army without aviation support.

All aviation in FoW is represented only by "battlefield planes" - dive bombers, ground-attack aircrafts and fighters, who tried to perform such functions.

In the USSR in the first year of the war there were not enough assault aircraft of special construction, so their role was played by obsolete fighters. I-16 was often used in this role.

Number 6 on this model is not just written. My grandfather joined his first fight on an I-16 with number 6. This happened on June 23, 1941 - on the second day of the war on the Eastern Front.

Lieutenant of the 162-Reserve Aviation Regiment Yakov Kirakosyan. 

He fought from June to September 1941 and shot down two German aircraft. During the Smolensk battle, he was seriously injured by a fragment of an anti-aircraft shell. After that, health was no longer allowed to fly on a fighter, but until the end of the war, he served as an instructor in the aviation school and trained young pilots.

However, not old fighters were destined to become the basis of Soviet ground-attack aviation. Since the fall of 1941, a large number of the IL-2 appeared on the Eastern Front of the Second World War.

This is the most massive military aircraft of all time. They were produced more than 36 000.

I tried to paint this model most similar to the plane of the famous Soviet ace Vasily Emelianenko. 

Soviet units of assault aviation carried terrible losses. Very few pilots survived the war from beginning to end. And Emelianenko is one of them.

I do not know how many points this work is. 

On the one hand, this is a vehicle for which according to the conditions of the challenge 6 points are required. On the other hand, in FoW, aviation is represented on a slightly smaller scale - 1/144. Therefore, I leave this to Curt.