This. For God's sake! We're talking about damn Miner's ship, the one who probably doesn't care about it's color much and wants to construct the most effective and cheapest ship, not some sort of race car in space, super-militaristish stuff.
And grey or rust color does make a nice tactical decision - camouflage. Enemy has issue in aiming it. And, I believe that the place where miner likes to stay most is some pile of rocks in space.
Maybe dark green or blue combined with rust, but give some rust to the so they can look like they actually used by tough workers and not by a pimp who...well we all knows what a pimp's doing.:P
Edit: Ooopps...just saw a little mistake in what i writen here, but it's fixed now.
I would make the fighters a dark red, maybe an orange. Not rust though, the infocard says that they're new ships, and they wouldn't have been out long enough to be in bad shape.
I love the new gunboat though, please leave that one like it is.
Yup, i aggre with Safe Have, the GB looks pretty cool. Maybe only the fighters are in need for some retexturing. I didn't saw the info card of the ships but if it sais they're new one then maybe BW textures with orange and add some yellow-black stiped textures too.