The only thing I can skin reasonably well are the racing cars for a bunch of sims, but the templates for IL2 (and any other flightsim I might have seen templates from, Lock-On for example) scare the living daylights out of me. Way too many panels, flaps, etc.
Cars are much easier.
One would think that a site like the IL2 Skins website would reappear in one form or another, there must be thousands of people who now miss it.