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I've made a personal endeavor to try to be faithful to parade colors, but some of it is just my interpretation. Some of them aren't 100%, either because a lack of a specific skin, or specific decal limits me from improving upon the design. Regardless, here are several DCMS unit colors, in alphabetical order.
Alshain Regulars
The Alshain Regulars take their colors form the planetary flag of Alshain and paint their ‘mechs in shades of grey, white and jade. The 8th, for example, uses a combination of grey and jade while, the ‘mechs of 11th are painted white and jade.
[Field Manual - Draconis Combine: p. 35ff]
(This is one of Kyone Akashi's pictures, I figured you wouldn't mind being represented
)Alshain Avengers
Pending the destruction of literally all but 5% of the 11 regiments of the Alshain Regulars, the Avengers were formed with the intent to take back the Alshain Military District from the Clans.
2nd Arkab Legion
Shahadet over at ours truly showed me a couple paint ups of their unit colors. The Arkab Legion eshews parade colors and typically uses appropriate camouflage. I hope I did it justice.
Benjamin Regulars
The Benjis also typically used camouflage, specifically for urban enviroments, using soft grays and browns.
Dieron Regulars
This unit actually hates using parade colors, and if ordered will paint their mechs white with gold trim. I decided to use woodland camo because they love their normal camouflage too much to quite give it up.
Galedon Regulars
The Galedon Regulars favor white, or light grey, with Jade Green accents. I've found both "Pigment" and "Zelenoo" to be pretty great jades.
The Genyosha
The 1st and 2nd Genyosha both use an ash grey. Later on, the 2nd Genyosha use a small Black stripe, as a means of differentiating between the two units.
As an aside, somebody from the Kurita Paint thread suggested that if you use snowfall on a Kintaro, you can get a pretty badass looking Black Ocean theme going on!
The Ghost Regiments, Many colored Winds of Fate
The Ghost are primarily composed of career Yakuza. They use a light grey, almost white, with green dragon's tail decal wrapped around the mech, with gold scales denoting a Pilot's confirmed kills. They're decorated with huge ornamental irezumi designs, chosen by the Pilot to regale others with tales of his conquests in his Battlemech. These are one of my favorite units paint-ups, and it's really a shame that you can't duplicate it. But I have all my personal mechs done up in a grey, so here they are, barring the introduction of dragon's tail decals!
Otomo
The personal guard of the Royal Palace on Luthien, the Otomo rock a bitchin' paint scheme of black and gold, both during parade, and in battle.
Pesht Regulars
Use a light grey with jade green and dark blue accents.
Ryuken
(In this case, the Ryuken-Ni) Employ a charcoal grey body, with an accent determined by unit inside the Ryuken. The Ryuken Ni use charcoal grey and a silver accent along the edges of their Battlemechs, to create the illusion of the edge of a blade.
Amphigean Light Assault Group
A curious unit with a colored history. This unit was originally a mercantile defense unit, loaned to the DCMS by the Amphigean Company in defense of its assets on-planet. They were used continually in decidedly "dishonorable" tactics, using a 'Mech's speed, rather than armor or weapons, to win battles. They had lots of success, going so far as to harass and defeat Assault groups much heavier than them, using guerilla hit and run tactics, and NEVER fighting in single combat. They used appropriate planetary camo, unless in parade, in which they use a grey with rust accents and black painted scorch marks. (This one was really tricky, since there are currently no battle damage paintups. I made do with Applejack and it seemed alright.)
And last but not least, the mainstays of the DCMS backbone, are the
Sword of Light Regiments
Famous, or rather infamous, for implementing a single Red color across all battlemechs, completely ignoring planet camo or parade decor. These units are highly respected, and are the single coolest unit in the DCMS.
