I've been adding paint touches and squadron insignia to my X-wings and other ships -- X-wings to replicate Red Squadron from the original Star Wars. Red Leader, Red 2, and Red 5 are done so far.

I picked up the Rebel Transport expansion today, thinking I'd use the extra X-wing for Red 3, and discovered that the ship in the expansion is a variant paint scheme. It's close to other Red Squadron schemes, but isn't one of the originals.

Any idea whose X-wing that paint scheme is, if it's not generic?

It is Jek Porkins's ship.

If this is accurate, it's no one's...the squad markings on the X-wing included don't match up with anyone. It looks really close to Wedge's, but this marking throws me off

None of the FFG paints have the individual ship markings (one of the things I'm adding). Porkins was Red 6 but had a healthy helping of red around the canopy with no yellow top stripe, so it's not his:

The combination of yellow nose, full yellow top stripe, and full red stripes don't match the originals ... I'm guessing it's either generic or a Rogue Squadron color scheme from Empire or later (so it could be Wes, Hobbie, or someone else).

Edit: Some good links to various original model photos (a few improperly labeled) here: http://www.keeperoftheforce.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=20

Since it came with the Transport, could it be based on an X-wing from the Hoth evacuation?

I'm waiting for mine to arrive, I believe its a generic Rogue though, this conclusion is drawn from some of the artwork in the Dark Horse Comics Rogue Squadron Series.

it has a red R2 unit, so it is supposed to be Porkins, but generic enough to be anyone.. he had the red around the cockpit.

'Rule of Cool' fellas.

It doesn't follow lore or any convention. Some artsy dude simply designed it, and the boss fella said "Yeah, looks cool .. print it!

And then, we fan-fellas sit back and analyse the yin-yang out of it.

It matches FFG's Porkins card.

'Rule of Cool' fellas.

It doesn't follow lore or any convention. Some artsy dude simply designed it, and the boss fella said "Yeah, looks cool .. print it!

And then, we fan-fellas sit back and analyse the yin-yang out of it.

This happens so much in the games industry and when you're inside looking in its *crazy* the amount of speculation you get and arguments over things that had almost zero thought put into them.

Classic one is in 40k with the 'deleted/mising' space marine legions from the heresy. Gamers have been getting stressed over that since it was printed in 1987 but the truth is its just a reference to ancient rome.

Rick Priestley is an archeologist originally, in the original found list of roman legions, two of them are listed as 'expunged from imperial records' (probably for doing badly or rebelling) and he thought this looked cool so copied it into a tiny bit of 'colour text' in the rogue trader rulebook.

People have been claiming to know the 'identity of the legions' for years on gaming sites but the truth is.... it just looked cool, there was never anything to delete.

Since it came with the Transport, could it be based on an X-wing from the Hoth evacuation?

My toughts aswell. And that would rule out Porkins.

Unless FFG is pulling a "MOTU Classics" and releasing diffrent x-wings in various expansions, but if you put them all togther you can build a full Red Squadron.

I've found out who's ship it is! It belongs to this guy: