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I am trying to figure out which scheme (i.e. Legion) to paint my Chaos lord on Bike.

To preface: I do not play CSM. But I have a collection of both Loyalist Chapter Marines and Chaos Marines shown here:
http://glennsgwmodels.blogspot.com/2017/11/chaos-marine-project.html
and here:
http://glennsgwmodels.blogspot.com/2017/09/more-space-marines.html

As you can see from my project so far, I have 1 Bolter/ Bolt gun+CC weapon Marine for all 9 Legions plus a "special". White Scar Biker, Blood Angel Jump Marine, Tsons Sorceror, Night Lord Jump Marine, Death Guard Terminator, etc.

What I don't have is a "special" for my Red Corsair or Word Bearer, nor do I have anything for Crismon Slaughter (which appears to be GWs pic for their bikers paint scheme)
So out of those 3, which scheme should I paint my Chaos Lord on bike?
Word Bear - I have a basic Marine and a "special" for all the other Legions, but not the WB (although I am toying with the idea of a Possessed for this)
Red Corsair - I really like this scheme and they seem adept at fast strikes. Downside is that these aren't a "Legion" thus don't really need to fit the theme of my overall project
Crimson Slaughter - Again, these are GWs chosen scheme for Chaos Bikes. I also don't have any CS marines yet.

I am leaning heavily towards Crimson Slaughter since they are the last "common" CSM I have yet to include, plus it would fit well with the Red Corsair as another "one-off" that isn't a true Legion Marine.

Thoughts?

It appears I posted this at a bad time since it keeps dropping lower on the page without any response.

crimson slaughter.

Specialist for word bearers for me would be a dark apostle.

I agree. Word Bearer "special" should be a Dark Apostle, Possesed, or even some Cultists.

Since I don't yet have a Crimson Slaughter model and GW uses the CS scheme for their bikes, I'll go with CS

Alpha Legion Special would have been suitable with Cultists as well, a common staple of their operations..

Sauragnmon wrote:
Alpha Legion Special would have been suitable with Cultists as well, a common staple of their operations..

True. I've been pondering getting a box of cultists and painting 2 as AL and 2 as WB. Not sure about the 5th guy

Got 'em finished:

Looks really good, the lord on the bike has an especially nice and smooth matte texture from what I can see. Very clean. I also like the bases.