My main Chapter colours are Midnight Blue, Enchanted Blue, & Chainmal.
When Painting, I try to make it look as though the Midnight blue is 'basic' armour, while the Enchanted Blue is the raised extra plates. All decorum & Shoulders are in Chainmail. Heads are Midnight with the back frame and ridges on the helmet Enchanted Lenses are green and Heraldry is Regal blue.
With Terminators, this looks quite cool.
I also have a system differing from the convention, Librarians are not Ultramarines blue, they are the normal scheme but with the opposite Greave to their force weapon in silver with a Regal blue glyph. Techmarines are only red on their left arm and right shoulder pad. Apocetharies replace the Enchanted Blue with white on all bar their right arm and head. There are no Chaplains, but War Priests, and they only have Midnight armour under Enchanted robes. The Champion of Hiigara is split between Chapter colours & Black.
The three Sons of Liberty are painted as normal, but with Regal blue, Boltgun Metal, and Enchanted Blue replacing their respective colours. They also have their right shoulder pad painted white with a black Chapter logo.
That's the basic scheme...
Specialists have little extra features which make them stick out in their uniformity: Sergeants wear full-length Tabars; Assault Marines wear MkVI (beak) helmets; Heavy Weapons wear helmets with eyepieces; standard Terminators all have banners; and Terminator Sergeants wear a Shoulderpad over their face (dome).
All fatigues and cloaks are white except for War Priests, which are blue, and Commanders, which are black. Every Powerfist or Chainfist is Burnished Gold and the Greave opposite is the same. Weapon casing is black.
That's the extras...
What I'm having troubles with are the Assault Terminators. What shoul I do with them? I'm going to keep the Sergeant having the shoulderpad face shield, bu am completely unsure of what else. I don't know If I should paint the Lightning Claws the same colour as the powerfists, and if not, what colour to do them. The Thunder Hammers & Storm Shields are unknown as well.
Any suggestions? Please try to base them on the rest of the Chapter.

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