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Hey all.
I am going to add some plague marines to my chaos force. Right now, I am running Black Legion/Chaos Undivided. This is what I have used since I started playing Warhammer 40K. I like Chaos, what can I say?

Anyway, does anyone have Plague Marines painted in a Black Legion scheme? Trying to think of a way to make them more uniform with my standard CSMs. I was thinking of maybe either gluing black legion shoulder pads on them (one each), or painting the shoulder pads black, adding the chaos symbol, and running with the corrosion and rot theme (holes, sores, and rust on the shoulders)? I suppose I could do an almost all black paint scheme on them, and use the same principle of corrosion....I am just wondering if anyone has examples of this?

I'm fairly sure that the codex shows a Black Legion plague marine.
The main difference is a black shoulder pad iirc.

Time to bust out the codex and take a look then!

In regards to the picture in the codex:

The left shoulder pad, right gauntlet/vembrace, right grieve, and backpack are black. The rest is typical green nurgly rot marine.

Usually Black Legionnaires of whom are dedicated to the other gods have one shoulder pad painted black to denote that they still serve the legion also a mark of some variety.

Found the picture. It looks like a basic shoulder pad, greave, and gauntlet paint job would tie the other members of the legion together nicely. I need to strip down and repaint a lot of my models anyway.

When I first started making this army, a few years ago now, I didn't have much in the way of ideas for coherency. This was when cult marines counted as elites...so I didn't bother giving any of them legion-coherent paint jobs except for the plain old CSM. My Khorne boys are all red, bronze, and black, with no coherent tie in to the larger legion.

Of course this means that I need to buy/borrow new paint, wash, and topcoat. On the plus side, I can make this army look pretty nice for table top gaming, with a few standout miniatures to highlight the collection (Abaddon was the first model I ever painted, and aside from a few chips, he still looks good). I think my berzerkers would look really good with a black shoulder, gauntlet and greave paint scheme. Though I could use a few more of those guys in an army. Maybe get another Rhino or something. One for berzerks, one for plague marines. Or I could just find my LR, and toss a squad in there.

I've got an expamle of a plague marine painted in Black Legion Colours in this thread, it's not the best paint job in the world but gives you the idea.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/214737.page#333007