Why exactly does blue look "like shit" compared to gray? If anything, gray is closer to the color of feces... unless you've been eating some weird food!

Seriously though, the models are closer to blue, the ships have been blue since 1980, the toys based on the movie were blue, the comics based on it showed them blue... it's clear that was always the intention... this wasn't some johnny-come-lately SE screw up, like so many of the other things we complain about. The majority of TIEs we've ever seen onscreen were some shade of blue. This makes the white/gray ones in ANH the odd ones out.

ANH is finished and i will never go back to that, so recolouring the TIEs will never happen

But you went and recolored the TIEs for the HD ESB, and now you're going to re-color (or desaturate) them again? And do the same for ROTJ? Look, I know you don't want to go back to ANH:R, but it sounds like you're saying you're locked into "consistency." But that's saying you're doing this to cover a mistake you made (in not making the TIEs in ANH blue to match the rest of the saga).

I can understand you hating blue because of the tints that Lowry Digital/Lucasfilm put in in 2004, but don't hate on the original TIE fighters for something those guys screwed up 24 years later!

The only reason I can think of for people preferring gray is because of the video games, that uniformly show gray ships (prior to the prequel era). But the games are notoriously inaccurate in virtually all areas...

So the Executor gets to be the only colored object in the night sky?

How about this: Blue Executor, blue TIEs... maybe gray is the default color, but Vader's Squadron uses blue?

The probe droid thing is cool, you won't get any complaints from me on that one!

PS: You ought to watch WWII in color... ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iRuxW5NOCc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_eDC8R4H9c&feature=related

Also of interest:

http://www.fighter-collection.com/pages/aircraft/corsair/index.php