How to Equip Ship Paints in Star Citizen

A new livery should be the easy part of getting your ship ready. If the paint is in your account but missing from the fitting options, start with the item, the ship and where they are stored. There are several kinds of ship customisation in Star Citizen, and they do not all use the same process.

Fitting an inventory paint

1. Check the compatible ship. Read the paint’s item description, including its generation where one is specified.
2. Go to the paint’s location with that ship. Newly acquired inventory paints arrive at your primary residence. A paint stored elsewhere needs to be accessible at the location where you are fitting it.
3. Open the ship’s loadout screen in mobiGlas. Select the paint tab and choose the livery you want.
4. Save the change before leaving the screen. Then check the ship’s appearance when you retrieve it.

That sequence is for an in-game paint item. A special-edition ship with its own appearance, a customised ship and a legacy skin upgrade are different cases. Do not apply a ship upgrade just because an inventory paint is missing.

When the paint does not appear

Correct ship, wrong generation? Our Constellation Mk IV microTech paint, for example, is listed for the Mk IV. The familiar Constellation name does not establish compatibility with another generation. Start with the specific listing rather than the broad family name.

Correct item, wrong location? Account ownership and local availability are separate checks. Finding an item in the account does not mean it is available at every station. Establish where the paint is stored before travelling around looking for a different fitting screen.

Looking for a ship that was not included? A paint-only listing supplies the livery. It does not add the matching spacecraft to your fleet. The product description should make that distinction clear; compare it with the item you expected to receive.

Everything matches, but it still fails? Contact support with the item name, ship variant, location and a screenshot of the fitting problem. For help with an Impound order, use our support page. Those details help distinguish an order query from an in-game fitting problem.

Keep legacy skins separate

Some older appearances are tied to a ship or a skin upgrade rather than a removable inventory paint. Their reversibility depends on the item and the system it uses. Reclaiming a pledge can permanently lose limited customisation, so it should not be the first response to a missing paint option.

For a look at the new Connie finishes, our Constellation paint collection brings the individual options together. The white, blue and grey microTech finish and the yellow-accented Hurston livery give the same ship quite different characters; choose the look you like, then check the exact compatibility on its listing.

Give your Connie a new look

Explore the Constellation paints at The Impound.

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