Constellation Mk IV Paints: Ten New Looks for Your Connie

A Constellation has a lot of hull to paint. The broad back, four engine housings and layers of armour give a livery plenty of room to change its character, from microTech's bright white panels to the skull sprawled across False Colors.

Ten newly listed Constellation Mk IV paints have joined The Impound: four Stanton company schemes, two very different greens, and a selection of darker or more formal finishes. Here is a closer look at each, with matching artwork and a direct link to the individual paint.

For the ship beneath the colour, our Constellation Mk IV rework feature covers the updated design and systems.

Four ways to wear Stanton's company colours

The corporate quartet is the easiest place to compare colour placement. microTech and Hurston keep a lighter or greyer central body with coloured outer sections; Crusader and ArcCorp spread their blue and red across the main hull. The matching hangar views below make those differences easy to judge.

microTech — white hull, cool blue accents

The brightest of the four company liveries, microTech spreads white across the broad upper hull and picks out the engine housings and side structures in blue. Grey panels keep the surface from becoming a single blank sheet. Those pale colours make the Connie's layered plating particularly easy to see in the hangar artwork.

It is a fitting match for the company behind the mobiGlas: clean, recognisable and a long way from a battered military finish. If you like a light-coloured ship but want more contrast than plain white, start here.

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Hurston — industrial grey and yellow

Hurston leaves much of the upper hull grey, concentrating yellow around the engines and outboard panels. The result looks more like working equipment than a parade ship, with the coloured sections emphasising how much machinery hangs off the Constellation's central body.

The weapons manufacturer's colours suit the Connie's heavy industrial styling. Against microTech's bright upper surfaces, Hurston is the more restrained option without losing a strong identity at a distance.

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Crusader — blue takes centre stage

Crusader reverses the balance of the lighter corporate schemes: blue covers the main hull, while white and grey break up the surrounding structures. It is a broad, confident use of colour rather than a few small accent stripes.

There is something pleasantly cheeky about putting a rival shipbuilder's colours on an RSI classic. For anyone who likes the blue-and-white combination, this is the clearest expression of it in the new selection.

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ArcCorp — red across the armour plates

ArcCorp puts red over the broad upper surfaces, with grey on the surrounding structures and yellow used sparingly as an accent. Under the hangar lighting, the red has a worn, muted appearance rather than the gloss of a showroom sports car.

That treatment fits the mining and terraforming company's industrial associations. It is the warmest of the four corporate options, and a good alternative to Crusader if you want the main hull to carry the colour.

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Two greens with very different ambitions

Green does not have to mean the same thing on every ship. These two finishes change both the amount of colour and where your eye lands first.

High Roller — green, gold and credit symbols

High Roller is wonderfully unsubtle. Bright green panels surround a black central hull, gold adds another flash of contrast, and the livery includes a pattern of credit symbols. The outer engine structures do much of the showing off, so the Connie's wide outline becomes part of the design.

It is the one to consider if you want your arrival to look deliberate. Compared with Emerald, High Roller is sharper and busier: more black-and-green contrast, more ornament, and very little interest in blending in.

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Emerald — a richer green finish

Emerald gives the main hull a deep green colour, with pale contrasting sections around the engines and outer structures. Unlike High Roller, it puts the green through the centre of the ship rather than using it mostly to frame a dark body.

The two green paints have quite different personalities. Emerald is the more cohesive, traditional-looking finish; High Roller is the louder choice. If you want a green Connie without the credit-symbol theme, Emerald is the obvious place to look.

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Dark hulls, emblems and a more formal finish

The remaining four work with quieter base colours. Their biggest differences are in the markings: a skull, thin red highlights, a citizen emblem or an Empire-inspired treatment.

False Colors — the skull makes the statement

A black finish, red and silver accents and a large skull give False Colors the most overtly aggressive theme of the group. The pale graphic is conspicuous against the dark plating, so it remains the focal point even among the Constellation's many panels and engine housings.

Nightbreak shares the dark-and-red palette but skips the big graphic. Choose between them on that distinction: False Colors wears its attitude openly, whereas Nightbreak lets the hull shape do more of the talking.

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Nightbreak — black with a trace of red

Nightbreak keeps the Constellation predominantly black, with red highlights tracing selected edges and panels. It is a quieter treatment than False Colors, with no large contrasting emblem dominating the upper hull.

The narrow accents are enough to stop the dark surfaces becoming anonymous. Of these ten, it is our pick for a severe, understated Connie. That is an aesthetic preference, not a claim that the paint changes detection, signatures or combat performance.

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Exploration — dark panels and a citizen emblem

Exploration combines a black finish with white accents and a large citizen emblem on one side. The light details give the dark hull something distinct to look at without covering it in bright colour.

It sits neatly between Nightbreak's minimal decoration and False Colors' much more confrontational graphic. For an exploration-themed ship, the emblem gives it a suitable identity without needing a completely different base colour.

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UEE Distinguished Service — a ceremonial touch

UEE Distinguished Service takes an Empire-themed approach. In the artwork, muted grey-green surfaces are edged with pale and gold-toned details, giving it a more formal appearance than the bright corporate paints.

It is a strong choice for a military-inspired Connie when you want something more ceremonial than plain black. The service theme belongs to the livery; it does not make the ship a different military variant or imply that its owner has earned an in-game service award.

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Which finish would we choose?

For a bright ship, microTech and Crusader are the standouts: white with blue detailing versus a blue main hull with lighter surrounding panels. Hurston keeps the working-ship feel, while ArcCorp adds a warmer red. Emerald would be our choice for a rich green finish; High Roller is for the owner who wants the decoration to be noticed.

Among the darker options, the decision is largely about how much graphic detail you want. Nightbreak is restrained, Exploration adds a clear emblem, and False Colors goes all-in on the skull. UEE Distinguished Service offers the more formal alternative. There is no need to choose a paint around your cargo hold or weapon loadout—pick the Connie you want to see waiting when the hangar doors open.

Give your Connie a new look

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