its one seriosly mirrored cut up skin on it with patches everywhere, all the maps are rescaled and different sizes.
this is fine for a 256 skin with no heavy detailing, but with the unchangable colors on the nose and spinners and mirrored nose and wings and nacels, this is a fixed skin with no room for changes or variations and it may get skinned in 1024 and have its 1 high res skin but with the patches and confusiontheres no chance for metal refelction effect, individual plane markings. basically nothing you will see on the p51 by the players will happen to the p38 until its got a straightforward adaptable texturemap.
and with 2 1024 x1024 bmps to work with this is double what IL2 uses to skin their entire aircraft.
simpler is better, no details no fixed colors and no mirrors or repeats to allow the plane to be done in an olive drab camoflage repaint or in any squadrons or pilots markings.
or leave it as it is and it will be very likely get left as it is by the skinners the way the 109g6 was till it had its tulips plucked.
