Model Reviews: Lord of Poxes and Khorne Slaughterbound

The new World Eaters and Death Guard books come with one new kit each, both characters – the World Eaters Slaughterbound is an Eightbound character, while the Lord of Poxes is a power armor-clad marine replacing the standard Chaos Lord. We built and painted both of these in the lead up to our reviews, and in this article we’ll be talking about the models – how to assemble and paint them, and traps to avoid.

We’d like to thank Games Workshop for providing us with preview copies of these models for review purposes.

The Lord of Poxes

Norman: This model is a bit of a weird one. The build itself has some bizarre choices, like how the left arm attaches to the main body by the bottom of the trim of the shoulder pad. It’s definitely not the most intuitive kit in the world but it goes together just fine. Design wise, I wish it was a little grosser? It definitely leans into the industrial aesthetic present in some Death Guard designs, but nothing about this screams “Lord of Disease”. All that said he paints up really fast, he’s not much more complex than a standard Plague Marine outside having more cloth and I was able to get him from sprue to painted in 3 hours. He’s got a nice open pose and everything is pretty easy to reach without a need for sub assemblies. Overall I’m pretty happy with the model, but I’m certainly not running to paint another one.

TheChirurgeon: Yeah I didn’t have any problem assembling this guy, but he definitely goes together in a weird way. The big thing to watch out for here is that left shoulder pad, where the lower half of the trim is an attached bit to the backpack. You can’t really sub-assemble this guy with how he goes together but he’s not too bad. Though I will admit I don’t love the amount of cloth draped over him – it’s not something you see a ton of on other Death Guard models and I’m trying to figure out if I want to do those in purple hues on my own model.

The Slaughterbound

TheChirurgeon: The Slaughterbound was fine. If you’ve painted up an Eightbound or Exalted Eightbound, then the basic format of this model and what’s going on with him will be pretty obvious. If you’re building this guy, there is one major thing to worry about that the Eightbound don’t have, and that’s the vials on his back – the Slaughterbound has six little vials and tubes on his back. These are an absolute pain to get to and I’d recommend not gluing on his backpack before painting the model. I made that mistake and it made those vials way harder to paint than they needed to be.

Also one more thing – he’s on a 50mm base, so if you’re trying to convert one up from an existing Eightbound model, you’ll want to upsize his base. If you’re wondering how I did the blood streams, they’re pretty easy – I do Astrogranite texture paint on the bases, leaving some stream spots untouched. Then I paint those with Gal Vorbak Red and cover them with Blood for the Blood god texture paint.

I did something similar for the other new World Eaters unit – you can find our review of the Goremongers here.

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