I was wondering what those of you who have La Malinche painted it like, since I've had the mech for a while but just can't get a plausible paint job on it...
I actually tend to paint all my hero mechs a solid colour. People see them and tend to throw an unreasonable level of effort into killing them first. Even when they are usually less of a threat than the various meta mechs running around.
Unlike you I like my heros being recognizable. It's like war paint. On day I bought a La Malinche on the test server, to see how it would look in purple: