I bought the shadow hawk skin but it won't appear in the game. I googled it and found there was a option to select the skin from you mech refit screen, but there are no such options on mine.
Anyone got any guidance on this?

https://www.gog.com/forum/battletech/how_to_get_the_shadowhawk_skin

Check, if you can change it there? It can easily be overseen, AFAIK you dont need a Paradox Account for a bought skin, only the backers needed it.

Hahahahaha. Not hard to tell which is your favorite Assault Mech. :)

Hehe, Heavy Metal, just makes it a bit tooo easy for my like, too many good weapons, too many DHS and if you have the Cash 100s of Lostech mechs.

yes its bad UI design by Paradox because the pattern system they have for every other mech in the game does bugger all with this skin and its in a totally different place but for $5 it looks cool

p.s, no you don't need to sign in to any of your Paradox accounts if you get it from the Dlc