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Are there things on space marines that are diffrent colors? What im trying to say is... like how a sargents head is red. And such.

Thanks, Duff.

It all depends on your chapter and how you want to paint them. There are plenty of ways to designate a sergeant other than color, i use an Orks ponytail and glue it to the top of my sergeants backpack, while i've seen others place a chapter banner on him. It all depends on your personal preference.Most chapters involve 2 colors, so if you think something should be a different color feel free to change it.

Different squads can get shoulder pads with special colours or markings, to set them apart from the rest of the army, as well as tie the unit together. But all in all, its up to you how you like to paint them.
On my Spacewolves, as an example, I have used a blue colour for the main body but made the arms bleached bone to bring out the focus on personal strenght they like (I would have liked to make the arms free of armour, with bulging biceps and all, but it would have been to much work/expencive for the whole army. In addition the shoulderpads have colours to mark their squad type.

Codex compliant way to paint marines: Insignium astartes.

Not sure what is so special of those special colors youre asking for...

would say the armor gets the chapter colors and everything else depends on material or markings.

- weapons, pure metal or painted casings.
- bags pouches.... maybe leather or compatible to armor.
- grenades seem to be metallic or colorful ( seen red, green, grey,... used. )
- markings. Tend to a) follow codex astartes or b) follow a chapter specific codex or C) homebrew variant.

Typically, I choose 3 colours to compliment each other.

Armour is one colour (in my case, dark blue)
Shoulder pads are a contrasting colour, usually lighter (Bleached bone, best colour ever)
Rims of shoulder pad are usually metallic (Mithril silver)

But you don't have to take my word for it, (cookie for anyone who gets the reference), check out the SM codex. There's a a lot of variant styles and patterns to give you inspiration.