I have been painting a number of Northwind Highlander Battlemech for a tournament I am running in October this year (2013). There are 4 main tartan schemes for the 4 lances (4 mechs in a lance).
The simplest and easiest to show how I painted the tartan is the 1st Kearny Regiment which uses a black background with white squares and grey lines where the white crosses the black, and black lines crossing over the white squares. I have 5 pictures I made up very quickly using MS paint, but they show how the effect can be achieved with a small paint brush and a steady hand.
Step 1 The Background
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Step 2 add white vertical stripes
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Step 3 add black horizontal stripes to create the white squares
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Step 4 add in thin grey lines (in pairs) to represent where the white crosses over the black background
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