Rise, Creatures of Prometheus!

So your favorite adversarial author has won this months local tourney (fought the Speed Freaks Orks, but as expected the player wasn't terribly good with them, so it's not really any kind of nail in the coffin for that argument) bearing a brand-new battleforce. I have been tossing around several different options and was torn between a vanilla bikers army and a fancy, fluffy Blood Angels force, and I finally caved and built the latter, mostly because the store owner has been a big whiny babby about how "gay" Tyranids and Orks and Chaos Space Marines and Tau and Space Wolves and Dark Eldar and pretty much every army on the Emperor's green Earth. The only thing he doesn't seem to complain about is... MEQs on foot. Anything else is tantamount to cheating. :\ So yeah, we're building something fluffy and reasonably effective I can bring into the store and maul some folks with without having to listen about how it's not fair that Tyranids have a way to shoot AND assault and that being able to spawn crappy units isn't fair and anything that ignores armor saves (i.e. CC attacks and nothing else) is unfair to models that have them. Ugh.

So, as to why I'm posting this: I'm looking for inspiration for a color scheme and basing. The army is heavily fire-themed and are a renegade BA chapter that found holy promethium to be just a bit too holy. They still worship Big Emps, but see him more as a divine mortal blessed with the power of flame- the Star Father, counterpart to Mother Flame. Death Company get revamped as guys who have been "blessed with inner flame" and are sorta, well, burning up. But it's not a bad thing, it's the ultimate gift. Everyone either wears a jump pack or comes down from the sky bathed in flames (Stormraven, Drop Pod, etc). Missiles, Lascannons, and Autocannons are pretty much verboten for the army, but Melta, Flamers, and Plasma are all kosher.

Basing is the biggest issue- I really have no idea where to go with it. I have a distant idea for an urban Guard army, so I'd like to save that. Resin bases seem really sexy, and I've been keeping my eye on different sites for interesting choices, but suggestions would be greatly appreciated. For the paint scheme obviously red is going to feature prominently (surprise!), but I'm thinking that something to contrast or compliment it for the armor itself, so that the red/orange of the fires sticks out more, would be good. However, I don't really pay much attention to MEQs, since I wasn't keen on starting an army of them until recently. Good tutorials for painting/sculpting fire would be appreciated, too.

I... I have become part of the Space Marine problem. I think I need to ritually cleanse myself before I post anything further.