Texturing help!

[sean24]

Ok, Ive just almost finished my first ever ship! (yay) Its taken me along time to get moddling because ms3d wansn't working untill 3 days ago. But anyway, ive been trying to learn how to texture and just when I thought I had the hang of it I hit a big dead end. Im trying to texture some cylinders, but it wont paint the whole thing, only the middle. Heres an example pic, (not my first ship btw just to make that clear to everyone).

cylinder

See, notice how the top is a colour. How do I get the texture to wrap around the whole thing? Any help is greatly appreciated.