An Old Plague, Part 2

I'm mixed on poxwalkers. Yeah, I get that they're good (probably still decent even after GW toned them down), but ... like, zombies, man. They're a little played out. Still, I managed to accidentally my way into about 60 of them while picking up various Dark Imperium lots for the foetid bloat-drone. Since they were decent fodder at first, before Chaos cultists and plaguebearers got significant boosts from updated rules, I ended up fielding them a lot at the start of 8th Edition.

Long story short, I painted a full unit before moving onto my plaguebearers. It's likely going to be, say, 13% of an eternal shame that I finished them before I dug into my favorite one-eyed daemons. (That's almost a full e-shame, for those who count things like that.)

Poxwalkers from the Dark Imperium kit.

I know it's somewhat en vogue right now to moan and complain about the sheer amount of detail on the Death Guard releases, but I enjoyed putting color on this kit. They have a lot of flat, empty spaces that appreciate simple gradients; there's lots of gross, knobbly bits that want a splash of contrast; there's hard mechanical and soft fleshy surfaces that appreciate different finishes and approaches. The models also pop surprisingly well with minimal highlights and glazes. Overall, these offer a lot of variety to entice both novice and midlevel (like me!) painters, so I'm not sure where all the grousing stems from.

The full unit of 20 poxwalkers, from the Dark Imperium kit.

I didn't go nuts on changing these guys — they're mooks, so they'll die in droves — and you can really see the repetition in the pair in the back-left holding bright-red wrenches. The guys in the trench coats really catch your eye when they're next to each other, too. If I ever end up warming to these models, I'll do some serious surgery on my unpainted guys to minimize the number of identical twins roaming about. Still, they look nice in my display case, even if they're not doing much else.

Poxwalker with gun. Note that it lacks the intelligence to do more than
swing it about; threat level: Epsilon.