Thanks for the information about that Thaeris.
I have IL2: 1946 installed so I could look into that......although I am a complete noob.
Yeah me too. But I'll also give it a shot
You may have more success. Please bear in mind that I'm a novice and therefore I'm probably coming at this from the completely wrong angle.
Using the method that Angelus posted, I extracted the .msh files for the Bf-109E-4 - so far so good. I assumed that there'd be one .msh file for the aircraft model, but it's made up of 93 of them. Each is a separate component of the model (propeller, wing, landing gear and so on). I found a means of converting them to .OBJ files (via MshConverter) in order to import them into Blender, but I'm having problems getting each component of the model into a shape resembling a 109 - I tried grouping individual .msh files into one .OBJ file, thinking that maybe the pieces would come together properly, but it doesn't work.
So from what I can tell, I think they have to be put together in Blender (or some other program), or maybe there's something missing that tells the program where each piece goes.
I reckon that I should leave this to the experts.