[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"guide-/guides/battletech-paint-schemes":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"category":155,"date":156,"description":157,"extension":158,"heroImage":159,"intro":160,"lastUpdated":156,"meta":161,"navigation":162,"path":163,"related":164,"seo":168,"shopSearch":169,"stem":170,"tags":171,"__hash__":172},"guides/guides/battletech-paint-schemes.md","BattleTech Paint Schemes - Every Great House",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":143},"minimark",[9,19,22,27,35,39,51,55,62,66,73,77,84,88,95,99,102,106,109,140],[10,11,12,13,18],"p",{},"BattleTech miniatures are a joy to paint: big flat armour panels, strong silhouettes, and factions with genuinely canonical colour identities that have been stable for decades. This guide covers the classic scheme for each Great House of the Inner Sphere (plus Clan Jade Falcon), and each section links straight into the ",[14,15,17],"a",{"href":16},"/tools/scheme-generator","scheme generator"," with the house colour pre-loaded, so you get an exact cross-brand paint recipe - shade, layer, highlight and supporting palette - in one click.",[10,20,21],{},"A note before you start: in BattleTech lore, colours vary by regiment and lance, not just by House. The schemes below are the recognisable parade identities - the versions everyone associates with each faction - and they make an excellent baseline that you can then vary per lance.",[23,24,26],"h2",{"id":25},"house-davion-federated-suns","House Davion - Federated Suns",[10,28,29,30,34],{},"Davion's identity is red and white: a strong mid-red hull with crisp white panels and the sunburst-and-sword insignia. It is a parade scheme at heart, so clean lines matter more than weathering - masking or careful edging between the red and white does most of the work. ",[14,31,33],{"href":32},"/tools/scheme-generator?color=a8262b","Generate the Davion recipe",".",[23,36,38],{"id":37},"house-kurita-draconis-combine","House Kurita - Draconis Combine",[10,40,41,42,46,47,34],{},"The Combine paints in near-black charcoal with red accents and the dragon insignia - the most sinister-looking of the House schemes. Dark hulls live or die on edge work, so a cold grey ",[14,43,45],{"href":44},"/guides/edge-highlighting","edge highlight"," along panel lines keeps the 'Mech from becoming a silhouette. ",[14,48,50],{"href":49},"/tools/scheme-generator?color=33363b","Generate the Kurita recipe",[23,52,54],{"id":53},"house-steiner-lyran-commonwealth","House Steiner - Lyran Commonwealth",[10,56,57,58,34],{},"Steiner wears a solid military blue with white accents and the mailed-fist insignia. It is probably the most forgiving House scheme for a first 'Mech: basecoat, wash, re-layer the panels, one white detail pass, done. ",[14,59,61],{"href":60},"/tools/scheme-generator?color=2f5f9e","Generate the Steiner recipe",[23,63,65],{"id":64},"house-marik-free-worlds-league","House Marik - Free Worlds League",[10,67,68,69,34],{},"Marik's regal purple with pale eagle heraldry is the most distinctive colour in the Inner Sphere - nobody else fields purple 'Mechs. Shade it towards blue-black rather than brown to keep the purple clean, and let the pale eagle and panel lines supply the contrast. ",[14,70,72],{"href":71},"/tools/scheme-generator?color=5a3a7a","Generate the Marik recipe",[23,74,76],{"id":75},"house-liao-capellan-confederation","House Liao - Capellan Confederation",[10,78,79,80,34],{},"Liao paints in a deep military green trimmed with gold-yellow and the Confederation triangle. The green-gold pairing reads instantly on the table, and the muted base takes weathering well if you prefer campaign-worn to parade-fresh. ",[14,81,83],{"href":82},"/tools/scheme-generator?color=2f7a4a","Generate the Liao recipe",[23,85,87],{"id":86},"clan-jade-falcon","Clan Jade Falcon",[10,89,90,91,34],{},"The best-known Clan scheme: jade green hulls with sharp falcon-yellow crests and flashes. Keep the green cool and let the yellow do the shouting - a thin yellow flash along a torso edge or wing surface is very effective against the jade. ",[14,92,94],{"href":93},"/tools/scheme-generator?color=3f8f6a","Generate the Jade Falcon recipe",[23,96,98],{"id":97},"lances-regiments-and-your-own-variant","Lances, regiments and your own variant",[10,100,101],{},"Half the fun of BattleTech painting culture is variation. A common approach is to keep the House colour as the body and change one element per lance - a coloured torso, a striped leg, a different insignia position - so the force reads as one regiment with visible sub-units. The generator makes this easy: add a secondary colour to any House recipe, or nudge the mood controls for a darker campaign version of the parade scheme, and every variant stays shareable as a URL.",[23,103,105],{"id":104},"painting-mechs-well","Painting 'Mechs well",[10,107,108],{},"The techniques are the same as any armoured miniature, applied to bigger panels:",[110,111,112,123,131],"ul",{},[113,114,115,122],"li",{},[116,117,118],"strong",{},[14,119,121],{"href":120},"/guides/washes-and-shades","Washes"," into the panel lines and joints give an instant mechanical read - on 'Mechs a controlled recess wash looks better than an all-over dip.",[113,124,125,130],{},[116,126,127],{},[14,128,129],{"href":44},"Edge highlighting"," along armour edges is what makes a 6mm-scale machine pop at arm's length.",[113,132,133,139],{},[116,134,135],{},[14,136,138],{"href":137},"/guides/drybrushing","Drybrushing"," handles dust on lower legs and feet if you want a campaign finish - keep it below the knee actuators, like mud on a tank's running gear.",[10,141,142],{},"Pick your House above, open the recipe, and you will have paints in hand for a full lance by the weekend.",{"title":144,"searchDepth":145,"depth":145,"links":146},"",2,[147,148,149,150,151,152,153,154],{"id":25,"depth":145,"text":26},{"id":37,"depth":145,"text":38},{"id":53,"depth":145,"text":54},{"id":64,"depth":145,"text":65},{"id":75,"depth":145,"text":76},{"id":86,"depth":145,"text":87},{"id":97,"depth":145,"text":98},{"id":104,"depth":145,"text":105},"Getting Started","2026-07-04","BattleTech paint schemes for every Great House and Clan Jade Falcon - the canonical colours of Davion, Kurita, Steiner, Marik and Liao, with an exact paint recipe generator for each.","md","/images/guides/battletech-paint-schemes.webp","The canonical Great House colours, with an exact paint recipe for each",{},true,"/guides/battletech-paint-schemes",[165,166,167],"washes-and-shades","edge-highlighting","drybrushing",{"title":5,"description":157},"battletech miniatures","guides/battletech-paint-schemes",null,"32oL2c5So34u1OuYg88fKwClcH_pMhk8IvZN1AATSJs"]