Excellent!
I want a "panel map" of all of the goldenrod panels across all of these fighters. To my cursory evaluation, there's no duplication. I find myself wondering if there was an all-yellow X-Wing the Rebels acquired that they stripped for parts and replacement panels... I may build such a model with all the panels Red Squadron's using removed showing the guts underneath, engines and cannons dismounted, cockpit gutted... *chuckle*
These are beautiful. My only semi-criticism is the colors look a little too bold for the scale. If I ever attempt something this ambitious I'd scale the colors (there's a calculation for how much white to add to fade them out that I can't be bothered to check right now). I also wouldn't tackle Red Squadron until I was able to see what I could see of the rest of it (7-12). Ultimately, I don't know that I have the shelf space for all of Gold, Red, and Blue that I would want to display, so I'll likely use your work as reference for the X-Wing miniatures (so I can have full rosters to pick from to field for given missions). At least Scarif and Yavin are a bit easier to research than Endor. That battle is a cinematic mess. One for-instance? The same guy is both Gray Leader and Red Two. And it gets worse from there.
--Jonah
Jonah,
Right, where is all the blue, yellow, and tan coming from? What does a full color x-wing look like? I have always chalked some of the color up to the pilot pained it that way and other panels as replacements, mainly the gray ones.
To my knowledge 7-11 where never made, pyro maybe. There is a few reference shots floating around of Red 12. Good note about tinting down the colors. I have done for a few, the lighter blues and grays.
I could be wrong, but I always took the various colored panels differences as being over exaggerated due to most of it getting lost in the compositing. When you see them on screen, it is hard to pick out many of the different colors, they wind up look more subtle and uniform
Also, in the case of the red 6 colors the colors might have been toned down at some point before filming. Maybe a light overspray added?
The on screen look is much more subdued and toned down
Also, using the movies as an "absolute" reference is flawed since they broke continuity several times during the death star attack. For example, the are shot were you can see Red 5 flying with copy of Red 5
in some cases there was more than 1 model representing the same ship, and the panels/blast marking etc... were different (example Red 3 hero vs pyro)
Or the shot with Gold Leader without an astromech etc...
The special editions in some cases just made it worse. They reused many of the same renders
https://starwarsenclair.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/yavin-flyby.png
At any rate, it comes down to whether you want to match the models specifically to a studio model as seen in person, or match more what you see on screen, or some combo of both.
ps
Oz, I love your color maps