Should the only requirement was no unarmed photo recon aircraft.
Again, understand I'm a 38 junkie. I'm not anti 38. What you seem to point out in the one image is the armor glass not the gun sight. At least thats all i can see. As for field modifications, I seem to recall that HTC wasn't going to do that. I remember there was a fuss about the depot modded B25C gunships when they were coming out for that reason. Some argued against the Malcom hood for that reason.
None of those were one off modifications so I think that's why they were OK. We're really talking about one or two possible recce Lightnings that we believe may or may not have had 2 50s. How do you work that in game? Shut off 2 Mgs and the cannon?
I don't care either way if HTC is OK with it. It's not up to me. If we allow recce paint jobs I'm much prefer the haze paint or PRU blue 38s since that's at least something different. This particular paint scheme is not unique enough to make me want to fly it and I fly the 38G almost exclusively.
So it seems to come down to whether or not 1-this is actually a working gunned 38 and 2-will HTC allow a field modded recce 38 skin in game?