Okay,
I've tried color inversion, stock AND RUb _shp files, tried hand drawing on _shp file itself. (see below pic for results of that)
No matter what I try I still wind up with a blue rectangular background for the Type 34 friendly DD when zoomed close on map.
I believe sincerely now that I am bumping up against a trigger for individual _shp files.
In order to have all uniform color contacts... we have to find the file that determines unit alignment color and re-define its properties to show the same color ship icons irregardless of alignment. I no longer believe it to be hard coded... but possibly hex edited
I'm hitting a wall here... that information HAS to be somewhere. Those little hand drawn ships ARE tga's and may be packed into DAT files... The dat file holding the skin for the Type 34 does not have the map icon tga for the same... as with the other icons