There are 3 generations of AH aircraft models.
If you flew the 109E before they redid it, you'd know what a Generation 1 looks like. The Macchi is also a generation 1. Flat, kind of ugly. The external shape is often mirrored, warped, stretched, duplicated, and all that nasty stuff that was good (at the time) but doesn't allow re-skinning. The Val is also a Generation 1 skin.
Then you have Generation 2 skins, which were the 109F-G-K before the update, and the P51 before the update. These skins might have had some external 3d reshaping (minor tweaks to improve the looks) but their texture quality was much improved. The bitmaps were better laid out, with little-to-no mirroring, stretching, etc, and were much more suitable for creating new skins on. I can't think of too many off the top of my head that still are generation 2. Most of these have been upgraded to Generation 3.
Generation 3 started with the Ki84, the T-34, and the B-24. These have much higher detail on the external 3D object, and all were redone from scratch. Along with better textures, the textures are mostly on one bitmap, instead of two. The previous generations split up the wings and fuselage, now all are combined on the same file (for several reasons I won't get into). These have moving sticks, rudders, and levers. They also are the best looking planes in the game. The "updated" planes people talk about are generation 3. These include P38s, P47s, P51s, all 109s, all 190s, all spitfires, b17 and b24 and ki84. I think that's all of them.
So basically, yes, the c2 needs to be redone, and badly
(I mean it needs badly, not that it should be "redone badly"!). So do the US Navy planes, several bombers, and many early fighters. It will get done eventually. Gatt and I just want it moved to the front of the line, so to speak
