Comentary

There are two basic schools of thought as far as paint schemes:

The First is that paint can break up a 'mechs outline and help it blend in to the background, therefore avoiding detection.

The second school of thought reasons that it is virtually nothing will hide a ground-thumping, heat dumping, whining (hydraulics, servos, etc), all metal with few curves (high radar return), thirty-six foot tall walking fusion reactor, so it might as well stand out! (kind of like a tank I am guessing as I have never seen a tank in action, except for TV)

Me, I subscribe to both schools of thought.

Once I painted a Flea (Battlemech) figurine to look like a tree. At one point in a game the other guy had to ask me where it was hiding among the little terrain trees we were using! Hence: Out of sight, out of mind. I have also gotten some good results with a varietiy of colors.

I have also gotten some excellent looking results from painting in bright Colors, but applying the paint in a manner similar to camoflage. One example is a Catapult C-3 fig that i gave a coat of (Testors Model Masters Federal Standard) Insignia Red, and covered that in Insignia Yellow horizontal tiger stripes.

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