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I'm finally getting around to doing a 10 man squad of chosen that are going to be busting tanks behind enemy lines. A lot of my opponents field their tanks in the back with everything else up front for the fight so it's a 4x Melta, 5x Meltabombs, 1x IoCG. Now to the part that this is really about. I was thinking of two different paint schemes.

One scheme would be the Chosen being painted up as if they were Space marines with a little more black than usual. I would prime black, base the torso/head/shoulders enchanted blue, base the arms/legs/packs black. From there I would do the grieves enchanted blue and a few details on the backpack enchanted blue, aswell as the little shoulder pads enchanted blue. Then a wash of Devlan Mud, some hawk turquoise highlights, and details. It would give them a slightly off look from what Space Marines look like. It's as if they infiltrated the enemy lines with a very clever disguise and hiding that 10 foot pole with a huge chaos icon on it behind their backs.

The second scheme follows my army a little better. My normal troops are painted Boltgun/red/black/gold (Super Chaos-y, I know). But my Havocs are painted like iron warriors. I was thinking of painting my Chosen with a Purge scheme. Prime/Base black do the shoulders/elbows/grieves green do a devlan mud wash and details. They would look as close as I need to get them and we usually play on a pretty green table so I guess they would be blending in some to that terrain. But it benefits my army scheme (kind of) more than logic.

In the "Siege of Vraks" book from FW, there is a bit of fluff about chaos marines actually using loyalist marine armor in order to infiltrate through imperial lines.

You could go with that, and use Marine bits for your infiltrators, possibly even a semi-loyalist paint scheme. And then use some spiky-ness and well placed icons to tie it in to your force.