the problem here is one of internal inconsistency within the film itself. they only made one xwing cockpit set which has red stripes on the engines.
but the shooting miniatures didn't.
invidual fighters had individual colours.
I think what I'm going to have to do is give them all red stripes to the edge of the cowling to match the cokcpit shot.
in addition I noticed that they did not use the right fighter in relation to the right actor. obviously a by product of just shooting various action shots with the models and then putting what looked good with the film.
the new CG shots all use red 2. all of them.
even when you cut to luke so it's crap for consistency to start with. then at frame 41229, it's wedge skimming the surface, but the miniature you see next, is red 1 you can tell by the massive scorch on the nose. which you see again at 43566 when red leader is killed, ie it is red 1.
sO I'm going to have to get selective I think.