I had done 3 skins fairly recently to get a feel for the problems with the '38 skin map.
Wasn't planning on doing anything with them since they will be made obsolete in the next version, but then I reread Pyro's post and its unclear to me when the next version is coming out - it could be months. So I just submitted what I had to HTC, in case they want to have a few skins available for the old '38 while they work on the next version. They aren't the greatest but the variety from the default skin might be appreciated by Lightning fans.
So, its all up to HTC. They might chose to keep it simple and keep the Lightning custom-skinless until the re-worked version is out, or they might chose to enable the skins, so that when the re-worked version comes out it has to disable the ingame custom-skins that have been made obsolete. I imagine that's a situation they'll have to code for and perhaps will want to test, because its going to happen at some point down the road (like with the P-51B).
There are pics of the '38s I did somewhere in an earlier thread in this forum. Just do a search on "Lightning strikes".
