Kurgan said:

So the TIEs are now definitely going to be back to grey. The Bombers will have the original colouring because they are different ships. TIEs were grey in ANH, so i want to keep the consistency there

Argh, why do the space battles need to look like black & white? Anyone can just dial down their color contrast, right?

The TIEs were originally intended to be blue, and this gave ESB & ROTJ a unique look.

Glad you're keeping the Executor color, but I say, bad idea on the monochrome TIEs in ESB.... :(

The colour correction i am doing at the moment has all blue TIEs. This video will be available on my AVCHD release in 1080p HD glory. But for revisited the TIEs will be grey. You have to remember this isn't a restoration its just a fan edit. I hate the blue TIEs in ROTJ & ESB. no amount of pressuring will make me change my mind on this (and yes i have just been pointed to the topic you started over at stardestroyer.net, Kurgan, that links to this thread to get people there to try and change my mind.). I have always preferred the TIEs to be grey. ANH:R has grey TIEs so suddenly jumping to having all blue TIEs really doesn't fit with continuity with my edit. The whole bollox explanation that the Death Star TIEs were a different squadron so were white/ grey is just more EU bullshit to explain an error. If that's the case then why did ILM add the CG TIEs for the SE as blue/grey ones? That totally screwed up that theory.

And as you can see from the pic you posted Kurgan the TIEs in ESB & ROTJ aren't even that colour. The TIES were artificially coloured for many shots. Its really obvious when comparing the model to the screen version. That colouring would have been almost grey when filmed. Like i said before they forgot in a lot of shots to recolour them and they are grey. This was the start of ILM finding out they could do something new and then totally overdoing it. They can recolour the TIES so they oversaturate them, but forget some shots; they find out that they can eliminate the black matte lines for the Hoth Battle by making the matte slightly transparent, but then use the same technique during the space scenes and the falcon & TIEs become transparent.