Jinx model is perfection and I'm glad I had it to fly when I used to fly and on short occasion lead GC. I'd still prefer original texturing as well though. As for the argument of looking out of place in freelancer, well, you should double check Bretonia snubs. Then look back to proposed model to conclude that it is not.
Iris got whole lot of problems starting from tube shape that is traditionally impossible to balance, ending with piss color wing texture. It now will take a lot of time to fix, and hopefully it will. But I'd not refer Iris as new standard for GC ships just from PR point of view.