So, Have a wee bit of a question for the many people that are smarter than me.

I made a little ship in Google Sketchup; you know, fer' shits 'n giggles 'n shit. I want to model said ship in flash, so I send it away to Swift 3D. I know how to animate with Swift 3D and export to Flash, but I have no idea how to color the model. I can make it one single color, but if I want to color the engines or cockpit different... I have no idea what I'm doing. I've seen a few animations here where 3D models are vectored and colored really nice. So far I'm failing at that. Any help or tutorials in the matter would be highly appreciated. I've searched on google, but most of the tutorials are for the drag and dropping of textures/ colors, which I do not want :(

Thanks in advance kiddies :3