Warhammer 40K: Fulgrim, Emperor’s Children Primarch Now in Plastic – First Look
Fulgrim, The Phoenician, Daemon Prince of Slaanesh is getting a new model that shows off his serpentine side.
Games Workshop has revealed a new plastic model of Fulgrim, Deamon Prince of Slaanesh and primarch of the Emperor’s Children. This new take on the traitor primarch isn’t elegant like last year’s resin Horus Heresy model with its grand wings. It shows a different side of Fulgrim. He’s in an aggressive, about-to-strike pose with all of his weapons at the ready.
This latest version of the daemonic Third Primarch joins his brothers Magnus, Mortarion and Angron as a plastic kit. Just like them, he appears corrupted by ten thousand years of exposure to the Warp – the difference between his new form and the Fulgrim Transfigured miniature from the Horus Heresy shows the effect the Empyrean can have on even the most willing of daemonic tyrants.
His panoply shifts according to his whims: at times his arms end in monstrous talons, or perhaps gilded gauntlets. Though his form is rarely fixed, he nevertheless favours the ostentatious and intricate, and enters battle covered in a kaleidoscopic raiment of serrated scales, perfumed silks, glimmering jewels, polished metals and flayed skin, all silhouetted by vast daemonic wings which bear him aloft.
Those of the Emperor’s Children who have been lucky enough to observe Fulgrim wield this fine but unadorned blade with quicksilver speed say that it bears a great resemblance to a weapon once given to him by someone of great importance many millennia past…
All of these options have me wondering about rules.
Fulgrim comes with five different heads, one helmeted, and four permitting you a choice of expressions from furious contempt to withering arrogance.
The optional expressions are probably my favorite part of this new model. The serpentine Daemon Prince of Slaanesh has many moods, including one that reminds me of my cat when he’s up to no good. I hope these are easily swappable (imagine changing his expression based on how your game is going), but I can’t be sure without being able to see what they look like on sprue.
Such a grandiose figure is in need of an army, and the Emperor’s Children still worship and idolise their inconstant, capricious, and ultimately cruel master. What will the new year bring?
Over the last several months, we’ve gotten hints about what’s in store for the Emperor’s Children, from shoulder pads to helmets and weaponry. And now we have their Primarch.
What Emperor’s Children unit or character are you hoping for in the new year?
