Hi,
I am looking for a way to visually differentiate my uniques from the regular squadron. It would like to stay close to an original look, if there is one. As I understand it, a lot of the aces appear in comics and other stuff. Do they look different than regular fighters in those? Thanks
So, I’m not an expert, but I did some research when I was painting my Imperial squadrons. The best idea I could come up with was from Saber Squadron’s look (Soontir Fel’s Tie Interceptor squadron). See here: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Saber_Squadron_(Imperial)
With that in mind, I made Soontir’s Tie Interceptor have the stripes with regular wingmen. Saber squadron itself had all with the stripe. From that point, I made aces have red (or other color) stripes to differentiate. Some of the weird ones (like Black Squadron, Gamma Squadron), I just did different things with (my Black squadron has a reverse color scheme, with a black body and grey wings, for example). I can take some pictures if you’d like to see.