Dear friends,
As you know, the Ilyushin Il-2 is one of the most famous WW2 airplanes.
All the serial planes were called just Il-2 in the official documents, both single and two seaters, but now for the first time we have a description of the many differences between all the Il-2 series, starting from 1941 and ending in 1945!
The author of this study is Professor Ivan Rodionov, who published a first article with scale drawings from factory material, in the May edition of Modelist Konstructor for the year 1982, and after little more than forty years, published an up to date article, in January 2023 in M-Hobby with scale drawings by Trufanov.
Now in Massimo Tessitori site, we have, in English, the most detailed description that I have ever seen of all the visible differences in the different series produced by the different factories.
You can find a description of all the single series produced by Zavod 18, divided by serial number, at the address
It is two files, about 90% images and 10% text.
Soon other pages will appear describing the remaining factories and the two seater.
Many things still remain to be discovered, so corrections and additions are welcome, but I would say that at last, we have enough information to produce an Il-2 model faithful to the original.
Regards
Daniele
