r/Warhammer40k • • 6d ago

Weekly Q&A Weekly General Q&A and Discussion Thread: 21 Oct, 2026 - 28 Oct, 2026

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

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r/Warhammer40k • • 2h ago

Hobby & Painting Sons of Medusa

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362 Upvotes

Sons of Medusa, finally done with this battalion box, onto the terminators.


r/Warhammer40k • • 6h ago

Hobby & Painting Burning Passion

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306 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 15h ago

Hobby & Painting Might as well

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1.4k Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 16h ago

Hobby & Painting Some models finished up for my homebrew

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1.3k Upvotes

Just showing off my recent models finished up for my homebrew, the Fell Blades.

More on here:

https://www.instagram.com/fell_blade_minis/


r/Warhammer40k • • 15h ago

Hobby & Painting Pins for my 2026 Golden Demon entries!! YAY!

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992 Upvotes

You guys were all so nice about both of my entries when I showed them off at various points so I thought you'd like to know that they got some lovely shiny pins at golden demon 2026 :')

The competition was WILLLDDD this year so I'm absolutely stoked about how well I did, commended and a notable for my old thunder warrior too!!

Anyways thanks again to you guys for always being so supportive and nice about my painting it really means the world to me 🙏

Time to practice painting even tinier for next year!


r/Warhammer40k • • 9h ago

Hobby & Painting Duel, Centos vs Screamer Killer

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308 Upvotes

Here’s my finished entry for the Golden Demon. I hope you like it. I’m really proud of the ‘commended’ award, although I would have loved to have made it to the final.


r/Warhammer40k • • 12h ago

Hobby & Painting Cosmic Themed Autarch

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468 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 22h ago

Hobby & Painting Hail, Lord of the Night!

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2.7k Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 15h ago

Misc Best 40k names to sneak into a baby name list?

704 Upvotes

Don't worry, I won't be actually introducing our future son as "baby Ghazghull Thraka", it's just a bit of fun, to see what I can trick my wife into seriously considering.

[EDIT: of course this absolutely stupid post is the only post of mine in years that actually blew up. Congrats to anyone who said Magnus and Tycho, as they’ve successfully made it past the censor]


r/Warhammer40k • • 8h ago

Hobby & Painting Trying to paint faster - 5 hours for this guy

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190 Upvotes

I've started getting into the table top so am wanting to paint up some fun units to use. This has meant I want to start painting faster so I tried to be a bit less detail obsessed and use some faster techniques.

Pretty happy with the result - for my other inceptor I'm doing NMM so that will probably be a good 20 hour model lol.

Starting to play tabletop has made me appreciate spending less time per model, although maybe 5 hours per inceptor is a lot - who knows.

The next thing I want to try is doing an intercessor in 2 hours or so. Will see how that goes!


r/Warhammer40k • • 4h ago

Hobby & Painting Two different takes on reposing a castraferrum dreadnought.

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64 Upvotes

Wanted to show my two reposed dreads to show the variety that can be made with either no extra parts or if you have the time and money that adding parts from other dreads can make it more dynamic.

The first one almost only has parts from the contemptor and venerable dreadnought kits.

The second one is purely sourced from the venerable dreadnought kit in regards to the body, with joints shaved down to fit the open leaning back pose


r/Warhammer40k • • 19h ago

Misc Got married and thought you guys might like our wedding figurines

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744 Upvotes

I think they're cute <3


r/Warhammer40k • • 1d ago

Art, Cosplay & OC 3D printed Halloween costume finished for my 10 y/o son

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3.7k Upvotes

STLs from Aguilar Workshop, printed entirely on an elegoo CC2. We still plan to dirty it up a bit with an oil wash and maybe print a few purity seals. Never really printed anything this big or wearable before and learned alot, was super fun and my son will remember building it forever. (Yes the chest piece is a little big, he'll grow into it lol)


r/Warhammer40k • • 17h ago

Lore Amberly Vail's face revealed!

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319 Upvotes

I was flipping through the illustrated and annotated For the Emperor and it occurred to me that this was the very first official art of Amberly and it looks like a lot of the fanart was right on the money. Granted, given her description that's not THAT surprising, but it IS nifty.


r/Warhammer40k • • 20h ago

Hobby & Painting Fluorescent Dakkarig

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555 Upvotes

Waaagh!

Finally done with the Dakkarig for my Bubblegum Boyz 😃

Such a fun model to paint. Painted with fluorescent paints and the last photo shows the model under a UV light.


r/Warhammer40k • • 3h ago

Hobby & Painting Dark Angels Captain WIP

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26 Upvotes

Had some extra time to paint aside from the commission I’ve been working on, slapped some layers on this DA Armageddon captain with head swap and weapon swap. Love this sculpt


r/Warhammer40k • • 1h ago

Hobby & Painting Goff Rocker

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• Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 3h ago

Hobby & Painting I’ve always felt Terminators were a bit too static, so I decided to give my Deathwing Knights some more dynamic poses!

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18 Upvotes

I’ve always thought Terminators looked a little too stiff for such powerful warriors. So I decided to try reposing my Deathwing Knights!
Lots of cutting, repositioning, and filling gaps, but I’m pretty happy with how they’re turning out so far.


r/Warhammer40k • • 8h ago

Hobby & Painting Trajann

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41 Upvotes

Trajann Valoris is finished was really fun to paint i did remove the feathers from the shoulder shield thing as I wasn't a fan of those feathers


r/Warhammer40k • • 16h ago

New Starter Help Not worth it?

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159 Upvotes

I found this box on EBay for 400€ and I dont know about it…
It could make my Salamanders to 1K and would start my Necrons army with models all I want the price is still a sting in the eye.
Ps: I want my Necrons mostly with Cenopteks and destroyers and my Salamander with Flamers and Blades ect


r/Warhammer40k • • 13h ago

Hobby & Painting First time trying out the hobby. Roast me to oblivion.

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78 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 1h ago

Hobby & Painting 1 year in

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I’m coming up on my one year anniversary in the hobby and this is what I have so far. I’ve been good about keeping my pile of shame to a minimum but of course there’s still a couple of boxes left. I’ve learned a lot from painting techniques to basing and I’ve come far from the flat monochrome to having depth and details. I look forward to continuing learning and emptying my bank account for little bits of plastic.


r/Warhammer40k • • 12h ago

Hobby & Painting Achilles Ridgerunner

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58 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 14h ago

Hobby & Painting Hope you guys like my grimdark black templar repulsor executioner

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69 Upvotes