Invisible models at select screen

I've been playing around with my own models and RW, keeping everything but my modeling current. My models all use base.skinname.png, as %player.setskin(%skin) is an awesome way to add minor differences.
So here's the bug... PlayerSelectView hasn't actually called/created the player at this point, thus you cannot set the skin. What's worse, base.skin is never used either, resulting in a pure white model.
Last build, this was somewhat goofy looking. This build, the menu screen has been changed to a white background, rendering my white models invisible!
As it's only my work affected, this doesn't truly count as a bug, but somewhere along the line, the real RW team may wish to flop skins around as well...