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the following are some ideas i had. i'm a begining painter so keep that in mind, thanks!

I kinda like the bottom one. Whats the colors of the heraldity?

According to the space marine painter on The Bolter and Chainsword sight, they are Bubonic Brown and Macharius Solar Orange.

I like the whole arm being off-color in the bottom scheme - the asymmetry is cool and makes them less court-jester-like than the usual split schemes. It would be easy to write up some kind of fluffy reason for the arm being off-color too, if you're into that sort of thing (honoring the famous hero losing his arm to a Daemon Prince, etc.). I'd use yellow instead of that brown though. Especially for a novice painter, orange/brown is going to be hard to do without muddying into a blur at tabletop distance. Higher contrast would make a stronger impression, I think.

Thanks....I was originally gonna go with yellow, but thougt it might be too bright. Yellow and orange was my first choice, so I think I'll go with that. If anyone else has any suggestions it would be much appreciated.

My only isue with this is that I don't sense any contrast between the yellow and the orange.

This is kinda the same thing I was going to do for my space marines, same painter diff scheme, I don't know what to call them but they're grey black and vary between having a blue left or right arm