New Game + armor color?

Colors on new game plus carry over from the customization of your last save (so do casual outfits, I believe).

If you want default colors, just choose those on your finished game, save, and start a new game plus from it.

If, however, you're using default colors already, it may be that default colors for the suit you're using are black and red (N7 or pathfinder). If that's the case, and you wanna start with that armor in white and blue, then again, customize the color to your liking on the finished game and start NG+.

You could put your PC back into default casual gear and armor (in default colors) and save that to use for NG+.
Just to be sure...

This happened to me as well. From a previous thread, posters said that the armor would be red and black if the game save used for NG+ did not have Ryder in default armor. I do not know if this will fix the armor of a genderswapped NG+, because Scott's armor in a Sara game is dark/N7 armor and can't be changed to default.

This makes me wonder if default armor was originally supposed to be red and black (see the McFarlane statues) but was changed to blue and white to be as little like Shepard as possible.

Let us know what happens.

Ok yeah I went back to my first game and changed Sarah's armor back to default color. Now Scott's armor is the white and blue again.

Having done a lot of experimentation with this, I can shed some light on how it works...

Your Ryder's colours are tied specifically to THAT Ryder sibling. If you play as Sara, change her colours during your game, then use that game as a NG+ but play as Scott, he won't get Sara's colours because he has his own.

As for why Scott appeared in black & red - those are the default Custom Colours, hence them being what your sibling sometimes wears during a certain mission towards the end of the game (if you yourself have custom colours selected, I believe). If you set your own custom colours and then use that same Ryder sibling in a NG+, their starting armour will be coloured to match.

You can actually fully manipulate what colours your sibling wears by creating them as a player-character Ryder in a different playthrough and exporting their appearance, then reimporting it for the game you want to play.

An interesting note here is that your sibling's casual outfit on the Hyperion - and your own in Alec's flashbacks - are dictated by the armour colours, not the casual outfit colours. I managed to get Scott's clothes looking more or less like the default AI uniform by colouring his armour grey, blue & white before exporting his appearance for use.

I thought it forced default colors for Habitat 7 for this reason, then gives you your preferred colors once you board the Tempest.

Perhaps we are talking about different update versions, and it changed at some point?