r/Warhammer40k • • 3d ago

Weekly Q&A Weekly General Q&A and Discussion Thread: 14 Oct, 2026 - 21 Oct, 2026

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Welcome to the r/Warhammer40k Q&A and Discussion Thread.

This sticky thread is for any general questions and discussion you may have about the Warhammer 40k hobby. Want to know the best paints to use? Unsure how a rule works? Need suggestions for the best glue to use? Post your question here! Just want to have a chat about something 40k related. This is also the place! Of course, if you see a question you know the answer to, please don't hesitate to pop an answer in a comment.

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r/Warhammer40k • • 7h ago

Art, Cosplay & OC Guilliman 30k cosplay 🔥🔥🔥

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3.5k Upvotes

I just finish my cosplay of Roboute Guilliman from the Horus Heresy.

What do you think?


r/Warhammer40k • • 10h ago

Art, Cosplay & OC Sister of Battle by Gurami

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4.6k Upvotes

A photo for my competition application, I later finished the costume and added a lot more details :)


r/Warhammer40k • • 6h ago

Hobby & Painting Marneus Calgar

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1.5k Upvotes

I have just finished my GW Calgar version. I have re-modified the head by Zbrush like last times 😁, hope you like it!


r/Warhammer40k • • 12h ago

Hobby & Painting WIP Galatus - Decided to remove all the shield detail and paint freehand for the first time

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2.9k Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 2h ago

Hobby & Painting Saint Celestine

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390 Upvotes

A conversion of the Saint Celestine model, based on my own vision of how Celestine should look. The work on this model was commissioned by me. Assembly and painting by Artem Romanov. Photography by Artem Romanov.

You can’t see it in the photo, but heretics are burning in that fire. There’s too much fire.


r/Warhammer40k • • 2h ago

Hobby & Painting Lord of the First Legion

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303 Upvotes

My take on the Lion, done up for a friend of mine for his DA army. Cold black armour to call back to the Heresy-era panoply of the legion, and burning phosphex on the base to evoke their role as the Emperor’s exterminators 🗡️


r/Warhammer40k • • 5h ago

Hobby & Painting I blended the Tone Pro color ranges into a handy Swatch so you can see what each colour set will look like on your models!

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434 Upvotes

I don't have access to tone pro yet, so I made this swatch to make pre-ordering sets easier.

These colours were taken from the Games Workshop website and blended in photoshop, so it's likely not an exact representation of the physical paints, but it's handy to visualise the gradient created from each set of 5 paints.


r/Warhammer40k • • 4h ago

Hobby & Painting What's a model with the closest possible pose to this picture?

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195 Upvotes

My playgroups' having a mini painting competition. I'm looking to paint a character that's pissed off and pulling out his blicky.


r/Warhammer40k • • 9h ago

Hobby & Painting Are you the Guard? Stand with me!

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401 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 3h ago

Hobby & Painting Army update

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107 Upvotes

Added 2 Vindicator, 2 Whirlwind and some ruins. Also changed the distribution of the army inside the cabinet: I decided to put all the Rhino chassis all together. The Predator with the basic paint job and the handmade dozer was the first tank I painted 22 years ago.


r/Warhammer40k • • 7h ago

Hobby & Painting Night Lords - Lord Toxicant

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256 Upvotes

My newest night Lord.

Saw the concept based on the Lord of Poxes a while back and wanted to make myself one as well.


r/Warhammer40k • • 2h ago

New Starter Help So confused

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92 Upvotes

I am generally new to the table top aspect of the hobby and wanted to know if functionally are there any differences between these two sets or are they basically the same and just different cosmetically?


r/Warhammer40k • • 2h ago

Hobby & Painting Old Man Templar

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90 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 14h ago

Hobby & Painting Necron nightbringer in a more impending doom pose

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708 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 8h ago

Hobby & Painting Stahly's Warhammer Tone Pro Review

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167 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 7h ago

Art, Cosplay & OC [OC] Titan leaving forge, fan art

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128 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 16h ago

Hobby & Painting Finished up this Neophyte and Initiate. Very rarely do I knock out 2 in one night.

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686 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 6h ago

Lore Blade Champion's "Vaultsword" is '"Jumpsword" in the Korean translation. Is this correct?

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82 Upvotes

The Adeptus Custodes Korean codex came up with "도약검", which means "Jumpsword" or "Leapsword".

Was the "Vault" in vaultsword that vault? I thought it meant the Vault of Terra. A powerful weapon that was stored in a secret vault or something.

Did you guys read it as the "sword of jump"?


r/Warhammer40k • • 6h ago

Hobby & Painting My Orktober hobbying is done! Time for Orktober gaming next!

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78 Upvotes

Nazdreg and a pair of DAKKA Rigs are done! Going to play them in a shooty Ork list for a local league


r/Warhammer40k • • 1h ago

Hobby & Painting Redemptor Dreadnought

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• Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 5h ago

Hobby & Painting Finished my first ultramarines intercessor!

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48 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 7h ago

Hobby & Painting Picked up a bunch of old paints at my parents house

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75 Upvotes

It’s hard to imagine any of em are still alive. What would be the best chance of reviving them? (If possible)


r/Warhammer40k • • 9h ago

Hobby & Painting My Blood Raven Journey Begins

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98 Upvotes

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First Intercessors of the 5th Company of the Blood Ravens is COMPLETE!

It took me a good three weeks, I think.

Which models do ya all suggest I tackle next?!


r/Warhammer40k • • 2h ago

Hobby & Painting Leviathan Fleet Swarmlord with Bio Sabres

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23 Upvotes

Wanted my Swarmlord to stand out as a true Warlord of my army so I darkened his skin and made his sabres have a bio glow to them.