All air forces have been guilty of overclaiming, but the Soviets claimed they destroyed roughly 95,000 German aircraft (according to "Red Stars") with numerous tales of being outnumbered on occasion 10 vs 40, or 15 vs 50; odd since the entire aircraft production run of the Third Reich from 1934 is 100,000 planes of all types. Not denigrating the accomplishments of pilots of either side, but I believe the Allied losses are closer to the German claims than the Allied claims are to German losses; but I could very well be wrong. But there is the fact that many hundreds, maybe more, of German planes were captured intact and lit up in bonfires all over Germany.
And I also thought the I-16 was an ugly little thing when I first saw a photo of it when I was a young kid, which was not helped later by Revell's poor rendition. It has grown on me since and I now find it quite appealing....