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I know MKIII is more iconic, and we'll have some of that in there,

But I also have a ton of MKIV shoulder pads with "molecular bonding" (studs), and about 40ish MKVII tactical marines from 40K boxes lying around.

I was thinking about kitbashing MKV armor from here, to give them a weathered look. Deathguard and to an even greater extent World Eaters both strike me as the types who could care less about wear and tear as long as it works.

I was just wondering if you guys think this seems fluffy/appropriate.

Personally, i do not see anything wrong with that. Chaos Marines just scavenge the Armour they wear from dead CSM or dead Loyalist SM, giving them a MK V look as they get Armour parts from all the different Marks. So i say go ahead with it, your Death Guard should look just fine.

Since it's been stated pretty much every legion used every mark don't see any problems with it. And I doubt traitors were exactly overabundant with armours either so don't see why they didn't resort to some kitbashing as well.

Death Guard in MkV is fine.
Pretending MkVII is MkV is something else - you'll catch flak from the rivet counters if you don't use greenstuff to convert the MkVII helmet (left) to the Mantilla/Sarum/Production MkV (right):

You may wish to specify that the army is late-Heresy or has otherwise gotten cut off from the normal supply chain, for lore consistency.

If you do mind what the rivet-counters say and don't mind some extra work http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/262448-horus-heresy-tutorials-thousand-sons-magistus-amon-160217/ is a great set of tutorials for producing Mk.I-V armour (and a few other Heresy-specific units) with normal GW plastic Marines and greenstuff, the Mk.V armour is on page 4.

(Fair warning: Doing this with normal 40k Marines will involve shaving the aquilas off the breastplates by hand, which can get tedious and result in severed thumbs. Be careful.)

Eh, feth the rivet counters. The rivets are repairs and it seems more and more like MkV is just a repair job of earlier marks and a stop gap. Iirc, it is meant as a more or less unofficial mark of armor.

As seen in the attached image, a helmet made for the World Eaters legion from the Forgeworld of Sarum that is pretty much owned by the World Eaters because of some debt. Iirc, the World Eaters saved them and that's why they are loyal to the Eaters of Worlds.

the_trooper wrote:
Eh, feth the rivet counters. The rivets are repairs and it seems more and more like MkV is just a repair job of earlier marks and a stop gap. Iirc, it is meant as a more or less unofficial mark of armor.

As seen in the attached image, a helmet made for the World Eaters legion from the Forgeworld of Sarum that is pretty much owned by the World Eaters because of some debt. Iirc, the World Eaters saved them and that's why they are loyal to the Eaters of Worlds.

Perfect!

Maybe these guys should be World Eaters instead, and we'll start another Traitor Legion. I can totally see using the MKVII helmets this way.

I am having a ball modeling and painting, I can work out getting some more MKIII for Deathguard...maybe building towards having some of each Traitor Legion present at Istivaan III.