Lee, LMAO!!! :lol
Yeah, it's a tough call. I love the idea of a fully red cockpit but clearly it wasn't in the end. Must have looked too strong. Red 6 definitely did keep brighter reds in places, though. :love
But do we *know* that the Red 3 colour was a particular Floquil? It might have been red with a lighter overspray on both birds, no? That said, I have most of the Floquil paints and will experiment a bit. It isn't like the ILM crew couldn't have just masked up the same markings again.
There ARE high-res shots of this bird. There HAVE to be. :lol
No really, there are. One of the ILM guys did a show and tell talk in my town in the late 80s - can't remember who. I had no cash at the time and couldn't go, but snuck in anyway towards the end of the talk. He had bucketloads of X-wing stuff.
JM - unfortunately I don't believe Red 6 appears anywhere in the finished film. I hope I'm wrong but I think it will take 4K captures to find it, if I am.
Paul (Nighteyes) - they're all from other X-wing threads right here IIRC. Mostly screencaps from the SAG DVD I believe - I don't have it so can't confirm. Edit: actually the big one is my scan (I think it was mine, anyway) out of Chronicles.
Paul (Heaberlin) - 60%-ish at least, really. If the inner lower left wing and the inner and outer right wings didn't have anything very special beyond the red 'brick' panels, then we'll end up being more accurate than that.
Anybody notice the nose is red AND green?
Yeah, it's a tough call. I love the idea of a fully red cockpit but clearly it wasn't in the end. Must have looked too strong. Red 6 definitely did keep brighter reds in places, though. :love
But do we *know* that the Red 3 colour was a particular Floquil? It might have been red with a lighter overspray on both birds, no? That said, I have most of the Floquil paints and will experiment a bit. It isn't like the ILM crew couldn't have just masked up the same markings again.
There ARE high-res shots of this bird. There HAVE to be. :lol
No really, there are. One of the ILM guys did a show and tell talk in my town in the late 80s - can't remember who. I had no cash at the time and couldn't go, but snuck in anyway towards the end of the talk. He had bucketloads of X-wing stuff.
JM - unfortunately I don't believe Red 6 appears anywhere in the finished film. I hope I'm wrong but I think it will take 4K captures to find it, if I am.
Paul (Nighteyes) - they're all from other X-wing threads right here IIRC. Mostly screencaps from the SAG DVD I believe - I don't have it so can't confirm. Edit: actually the big one is my scan (I think it was mine, anyway) out of Chronicles.
Paul (Heaberlin) - 60%-ish at least, really. If the inner lower left wing and the inner and outer right wings didn't have anything very special beyond the red 'brick' panels, then we'll end up being more accurate than that.
Anybody notice the nose is red AND green?
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