r/Warhammer40k • • 1d 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.

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r/Warhammer40k • • 3h ago

Hobby & Painting Terminator are always nice to paint.

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Hi, I'm paint for my showcase and I'm making different terminators of different chapters.

Those guys in video⬇️

Bloodangels

Ultramarines

Fleshtearers

Spacewolf

Carcharodon


r/Warhammer40k • • 11h ago

Hobby & Painting Chainsaw man space marine for my iron hands

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I hope you guys like it. It's my first time doing blood splatters and I don't know if they turned out well enough. Anyways, tell me what you think about him!


r/Warhammer40k • • 1h ago

Hobby & Painting All my "new" Terminators . ~50 i have painted in the past 4 years with a mix of standard, assault , knights , elites and captains .

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r/Warhammer40k • • 13h ago

Lore Why the imperium dosen't strap krak grenades to servoskulls and set them loose ?

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I have seen them use some laspistols, but what about strapping grenades on them? how fast are they ? Do they have limited operational range ? Are they cheap to produce ? What about a cherub ? How many krak grenades could it fit ? Just speculating.


r/Warhammer40k • • 9h ago

Art, Cosplay & OC Its not much, but it's my first ever cosplay - Tech-Priest

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Even though it's rough compared to what others have done, I'm very proud about what I've accomplished with this.

What I did myself:

Staff is painted by me
Front armor is made by me
Backpack is made by me.

Rest of the stuff I cannot take credit for.


r/Warhammer40k • • 5h ago

Hobby & Painting Nurgle Defiler

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141 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 21h ago

Hobby & Painting Cyrion of First claw.

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“So,” Cyrion said to the silent, towering Terminators. “How are you?” Cyrion - The Jester. This was such a fun piece to paint. REDACTED and I chatted about the approach to this character - how to get across the sarcastic nature. How to show the underlying corruption without obvious markings. Can you see the hints?


r/Warhammer40k • • 17h ago

Hobby & Painting Crusader

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543 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 6h ago

Hobby & Painting WIP Vanguard Vet

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74 Upvotes

Yet another Vanguard Vet WIP, only 2 left to 10 man squad


r/Warhammer40k • • 15h ago

Art, Cosplay & OC new crossverse Guts from berserk as an space marine, I wanted to do him as an Iron hand warhammer 40k. any ideas for Grifith?

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359 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 12h ago

Rules Intercessor sergeants and plasma pistols

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159 Upvotes

I haven't seen anyone talk about this, but on the box and website for the new Intercessors GW have a sergeant with a plasma pistol and bolt rifle. In the codex, however, you can only swap the bolter for a plasma pistol, you can't take both at the same time.

One of these things is an oversight. Either the studio assumed it would be possible so built and photographed it, or the writers assumed it wouldn't be possible and so excluded it from the rules. The options haven't changed from 10th edition, so I'm inclined to believe it's the latter. Nothing in the instructions suggests you can't take a plasma pistol and bolt rifle.

Anyway, just a heads up for people building the new box.


r/Warhammer40k • • 17h ago

Hobby & Painting Painted my first ever mini

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I painted my first Space Marine this week, the guy from the store was really kind and helped me a lot. I am very proud of the result


r/Warhammer40k • • 22h ago

Hobby & Painting Which GW kit leaves the most plastic on the sprue?

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777 Upvotes

I'm about halfway through the annual 'spare parts liberation day' and do far I reckon it's between-

-Leman Russ. There's a good 60% of a second tank still remaining.

-Hive Tyrant. This one is closer to 80% of a second model remaining

-Tempestus Scions. Why are there over 20 head options for a 5 man kit?

Any other contenders?


r/Warhammer40k • • 52m ago

Hobby & Painting Spoils of WAAAGH!

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Victorious Bad Moons orks return from a fight with the Blood Angels, laden with loot. They're towing a hovering Space Marine Speeder which is giving a ride to a broken Big Mek Dakkarig. (Now a Big Mek Dakka Speeda).

All these miniatures are from the Warhammer 40,000 11th Edition launch box: Armageddon!

YouTube Video and more photos coming soon


r/Warhammer40k • • 12h ago

Hobby & Painting Galatus done!

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104 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 1d ago

Hobby & Painting Got this lil' guy on eBay, I don't think he really needed all this packaging...

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1.1k Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 44m ago

Hobby & Painting Blood Claws

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r/Warhammer40k • • 21h ago

Rules Tournament organizers, is this mini, as master of execution, acceptable for you?

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For a (narrative) tournament, I'd like to use this mini instead of the vanilla master of execution. Is that allowed in tournaments? I'll obviously kitbash it and paint it as a Night Lord.


r/Warhammer40k • • 15h ago

Hobby & Painting Some green stuff work

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134 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 20h ago

News & Rumours Grand Narrative 2026: Introducing the Lords of War

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318 Upvotes

New campaign lore dump!


r/Warhammer40k • • 14h ago

Hobby & Painting Lieutenant with Storm Shield.

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104 Upvotes

Kinda lost interest in painting minis about halfway through this and mailed it in. Still a cool sculpt.


r/Warhammer40k • • 2h ago

Hobby & Painting First time using blood for blood god

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11 Upvotes

First time I use the technical paint blood for blood god, found the result pretty solid, really feel like blood !


r/Warhammer40k • • 7h ago

Hobby & Painting Starting my first Space Marine, just working out bade colors

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27 Upvotes

I want my dudes to look more "rwal military" and less Knights Templar...


r/Warhammer40k • • 1h ago

Hobby & Painting Gladiator Valiant/Lancer Tank for my Dark Angels successors. Glad to be getting more armour for force.

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