Warhammer chess set?

[mattyfez]

Hi all I fancy picking up the paint brush again. Used to paint warhammer 40k figures back in my youth and got reasonably good at it and fancy doing some more.
I don't play the game, have no real interest in it but like the painting side and thought a chess set would be a good little hobby /project.

What to get though for chess? I was thinking Lord of the rings but choosing the pieces might be tricky.

Maybe space marines vs eldar? Or just 2 factions of marines, space wolf vs blood angels or whatever.

Any ideas on what to go for that has figures that could be good chess pieces?
Open to ideas really.

 

[mattyfez]

Thanks.. Space vs chaos might work well to keep the peices fairly similar..
Maybe a light grey space wolf side and a very dark grey chaos colour scheme to keep more inline with the more traditional black and white chess peices.

 

[mattyfez]

Thanks, yeah I think that could work well.. Creme /ivory more natural vs very dark/ grey metallic more demonic /steam punk looking looking