OK time is coming close to start the next marine army project. I've been collecting up a fair sized bit of forces to make a run of it with a hopefully higher level of quality than ever before. However the question comes up as to what chapter I should run with so I figured I'd just bring the question before the synod to render judgement.
Way back in the heady Rogue Trader days a much younger me looked and just fell in love with the Blood Angels in that classic marines color scheme spread. I will admit that some of it might have been from the fact that I know I might have trouble painting up some of the other colors and I knew solid red was something I could handle. However since then I've done more than my fair share of them so perhaps I should move on? Smurfs are way over done by just about every snot nosed punk that comes into a GW store nowadays but it seems that the BA and BT have almost surpassed them in being cliche'.
In recent years I've resurrected my epic collection and went with a Minotaurs force so perhaps I should continue on that path. However I can say that stylistically I've changed quite a bit so I am not so sure continuing with them makes sense.
Perhaps Carcharodons are in order but they seem rather plain to me.
Dark Angels seem somewhat interesting but that's more because of the color schemes as opposed to the fluff.
I've thought about Red Scorpions as I really like that look but isn't that just the new cool chapter to play now?
So thoughts?
They're like Dark Angels (dark green!), and like the Knights Templar (banks and swords!), and very vaguely Celtic! 
. The space otters will be done as a shout out to a homie (done with his express blessing). I'll take the remainder as Blood Angels (dervishes and flying lunchboxes) and I can simply play a mixed astartes force as appropriate for the points as needed.