The attached is the jpeg image I used on the hull. I use images a lot in my rendering as there are so many high quality free ones about.
Also select the Projection Mapping Function a lot, to suit individual objects needs.
I wonder if, really, the shader domains would get the desired effect? (Have to fiddle around with that but it's time consuming.)

I also have to double check if the 3ds retains the individual items separated like Iges and 3dm and obj.
As a ps, if you have used the hide function in MoI both the Iges and 3dm files in Carrara are likely to have lost surfaces.--very strange--Michael says it is a Carrara fault.

Brian