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Hello,

is it possible to paint csm army on one color ( etc. black ) and play them with any god i want? Is it requiered to paint them red to play khorne or others ?
Will it be accetable on tournaments ?

There is no particular colour you Have to paint chaos marines to show allegiance to any god.

It is good form to match the colour scheme (roughly) of the legion rules you are using.

Most would expect some modelling cues to show the god allegiance of each unit, but this isn't compulsory.
In fact now CSms can gain allegiance mid battle.

So long as it is clear what each unit represents, it does not matter what colour they are.

If you have two identical units but you are using one as plague marines and another as noise marines then you may have a problem.

Paint has literally less than zero rules effect. Paint them as Emperor Children down to the heraldry and run them as World Eaters for all the game cares. As long as each unit is clear as to what it is and is armed with, you're good to go.

The important thing is as long as the important upgrades are clear.

A squad of Khorne Berserkers models will be Khorne Berserkers regardless of if you pet them red, black or octarine!

If you are using stock space marine models to represent different variations of units, though, you might need to put in a bit more work.

Take some time to think about the squad, and what it is that makes the unit special. This makes the game clearer, and visually more entertaining for both parties.

If these space marines are marked by Khorne, try to weave the mark into their iconography. Use transfers, freehands or bits to get his icons onto obvious places, such as their pauldrons.

You can also use implicit visual cues; e.g. Khorne followers are famed collectors of skulls, so perhaps use a higher proportion of severed heads on belts, or bits with skull iconography.

This would be different to a Nurgle marked unit, who famously don't clean their equipment (so go heavier on the weathering, the rust and oil streaks etc). With Nurgle marked models I'd also try to use pieces with exposed cabling; Nurgle followers become so bloated much of their armor's cabling gets pushed out from between the plates! The fact exposed cabling is visually reminiscent of intestines is an added bonus.

Slaanesh marines are indulgent in excess, often indulging in superficial perfectionism. Their armour should be very cleanly painted. Use excessive amounts of gaudy gold trim. Paint any rivets as gem studs.

For Tzeentch... to be honest I've run out of ideas. Perhaps someone else can make suggestions here.

nareik wrote:
The important thing is as long as the important upgrades are clear.

A squad of Khorne Berserkers models will be Khorne Berserkers regardless of if you pet them red, black or octarine!

If you are using stock space marine models to represent different variations of units, though, you might need to put in a bit more work.

Take some time to think about the squad, and what it is that makes the unit special. This makes the game clearer, and visually more entertaining for both parties.

If these space marines are marked by Khorne, try to weave the mark into their iconography. Use transfers, freehands or bits to get his icons onto obvious places, such as their pauldrons.

You can also use implicit visual cues; e.g. Khorne followers are famed collectors of skulls, so perhaps use a higher proportion of severed heads on belts, or bits with skull iconography.

This would be different to a Nurgle marked unit, who famously don't clean their equipment (so go heavier on the weathering, the rust and oil streaks etc). With Nurgle marked models I'd also try to use pieces with exposed cabling; Nurgle followers become so bloated much of their armor's cabling gets pushed out from between the plates! The fact exposed cabling is visually reminiscent of intestines is an added bonus.

Slaanesh marines are indulgent in excess, often indulging in superficial perfectionism. Their armour should be very cleanly painted. Use excessive amounts of gaudy gold trim. Paint any rivets as gem studs.

For Tzeentch... to be honest I've run out of ideas. Perhaps someone else can make suggestions here.

I had 18 of the 90's 1 pose berzerkers, picked them and a chaos land raider at a garage sale for $10 years ago (made me start playing chaos). at first i used them as berzerkers, until i played some gaems and read some more lore and the heresy series. I fell in love with fulgrim/the emperor's children. As i had an extremely limited budget, i decided to simply shave the khornate markings off half of the models and have painted them in purple/pink befitting of the emperor's children. although the painting isn't finished, i will be adding slaanesh markings at the end.
I'm also planning on getting the "know no fear" starter set (only recently got back into the game after leaving start of 5th ed) and converting the marine models to chaos, the hellblaster squad as chosen, captain into a lord, intercessors i can chuck some of my spare sonic weapons on, give them all some of my spare bits/heads/backpacks ect. and they should be fine i think.
Its one of the things I love about chaos, for a large amount of it you can quite easily do a bit of conversion work and mix things up.

I will also be painting most of my army in a more emperor's children style, although will be running my lists mostly under alpha legion simply for the legion traits and stratagems, and could feasibly run them under any of the legions for gaming purposes.

Do what you want. Be creative. Don't listen to anyone who tells you your plastic figures have to be painted a certain colour, for any reason.

Just be consistent in how you use them. If you have 3 identically painted units of basic CSM then you should probably keep them all to the same power.

Just avoid using one gods main colour as another and be open with your opponent and you shouldn't go far wrong.

You'll always have some people complain but that's just life

You could paint the rim of the base to match the specific god's color so it's clear which one is marked which.

I used to know a fellow who ran Black Chaos! Marines, with Brass Chaos symbols for Khorn, Blue Symbols for Tzench, Pink Symbols for Slanesh, and Green Symbols for Nurgle. Not the most hard working or creative painter evah! But there was no problem knowing who was who.

I seem to recall back in Ye Olde Chaos Codex (the 4th edition one, I think) it showed a bunch of Cult Units painted in Black Legion colours, with only a shoulder pad and leg in their usual cult colours.

You also have the various Gods banners and symbols to help identify a unit. It doesn't matter if it's painted orange with silver spots, if it's carrying a symbol of Khorne and a chainaxe you have a solid idea what's heading your way.

But yes, as many have said, the colours don't matter too much - the ability to identify the unit across the board does.

EDIT: Sort of right, here's the image.