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So I bit the bullet and bought a fire raptor gunship and 3 Deredeo dreadnoughts. I'm generally running Black legion chaos army but I have mixed colored units as well like death guard, night lords and some red and gold marines.
I sort of want to make all four of these model black legion but I don't really know where to put the gold, and black painted figures always kind of seemed plain to me even when highlighted and all that I went with black legion because it was the easiest to paint when I got into the hobby 9 years ago.

Anyone have and recommendations or pictures of these units in Chaos colors? Doesn't have to just be black legion as I'm really open to painting any chaos scheme as long as it isn't pink.

There's a picture in the 4th ed. chaos codex that I've always thought would look great for a black legion vehicle (sorry for giant, terrible picture):



You've gotta do something with those big, flat panels if you're painting it black; a big chaosy symbol would look great. Go primarily yellow over black, and you can pick out little areas of gold on the gun barrels and the like.

Failing that, you could weather it to hell. Scale-model style.

You could highlight the black in each of the Gods' primary colours.
EG browny green for nurgle, pink for slannesh, red for khorne & blue for tzeench.
Olaf Miniatures on FB has a really nice dark scheme for his Nurgle stuff & it looks amazing!
EG this: