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So chaos marines is around for 10k-ish years. The codex states that a lot rhinos have also been around for longer than that. Also it stats how chaos marines would loot and repair fallen rhinos.
However I have never seen a battered up chaos rhino. No plasticard with rivets in them attached to chaos rhinos, no random bits hanging, no nothing. So has anyone ever seen a looted chaos rhino before and if so, please do share.

Check the earlier editions of chaos space marine codexes, the nurgle rhinos in the photo galleries looked pretty well looted with crude armor plates and rivets everywhere.

I think one key here is that Chaos Marines are not 'looting' a Rhino in the same way that Orks are looting one.

Chaos Marines are able to maintain wargear from the Horus Heresy, and they have the support of the "Dark Mechanicus" and even corrupted Forge Worlds. So, when they are 'looting' a Rhino, they are seizing Imperial war materiel, and repurposing it, probably both as a needed resource, and as a propaganda tool.

What I think that means in play is that you will see some Rhinos which have had Imperial iconography removed and replaced with Legion/warband specific iconography (in the case of simply making use of the resource). You will also see other Rhinos with Imperial iconography purposely desecrated. Thus, a Chaos 'looted' Rhino might have areas of bare metal where Imperial Aquila or winged skulls were found, or it might have a cracked and broken Aquila, or even a Space Marine or Imperial preacher nailed to the hull. You might also see a paint job where the original Chapter markings aren't fully covered, or are specifically vandalized.

It shouldn't look shabby or ramshackle like a looted Ork Rhino (though a Nurgle-tainted Rhino might look quite shabby in a different fashion...)

My idea of a chaos looted rhino is more along the lines of a rhino with lots and lots of pieces of plasticard riveted onto it. It doesn't need to look orky, it just needs to look like its been blown up a couple of times and the boys with spikes have fixed it up proper with what was handy at the time.

 Novelist47 wrote:
It doesn't need to look orky, it just needs to look like its been blown up a couple of times and the boys with spikes have fixed it up proper with what was handy at the time.

Screw with your spelling a bit, and that's Ork-speak.

The thing with CSM is that they're still Space Marines. As has been mentioned, they've got the knowledge and means to actually maintain an (formerly) Imperial vehicle. If a Rhino has been in service for thousands of years, chances are its armor skirts weren't made out of the repurposed shed of its crew's first victim. No, not even a plasteel space-shed. Sure, Nurgle-worshiping crews don't scrape off the rust (they feed it, what with all the goo), but a Rhino in working (and, thereby, fighting) order is going to be intact, whether or not it's covered in spikes, daemonic growths, corpses, and/or heretical graffiti.

Of course, you can justify pretty much anything, fluff-wise, if you try, but I'd consider it a new addition instead of a sensible extrapolation. A patched-together Rhino like you envision doesn't really fit the "usual suspects" of Chaos. Nothing says you can't do it, but there are reasons why it isn't commonplace.

My Chaos Rhinos had wooden doors because Chaos.

I could stick bananas in the ears of my Space Marines and make it sound fluffy. If you want to have field repaired Rhinos, then go for it.

A good example of this is the Space Wolves 13th company who have no support whatsoever. They take what they can, regardless of it's original source (loyalist, chaos, whatever) and bolt it on.

In the end they are your models and you can do what ever you want with them. If someone starts to whine, they would whine about a lot of other things too. Just don't play them.

i agree 100% with the opinion above.

I just want to add one thought. If you want to go with the crudely repaired look it's best to do the whole army this way. It would look kinda strange if a squad of blinged up CSM with shiny armor fresh from the factory rides to war in a banged up rhino that looks like it might not even reach the enemy line.

I plan to do exactly thst, all 6 of my rhinos i plan to look battered and worn.