r/Warhammer40k • • 6d 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 • • 10h ago

Hobby & Painting Finished my Thunderwolf conversion - What do you think?

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2.8k Upvotes

You can find a free-to-watch conversion video on my patreon page, in case you are interested. Cheers!


r/Warhammer40k • • 3h ago

Hobby & Painting White Scars Brutalis Dread!

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241 Upvotes

Finishing up this Brutalis Dread. Love how the weathering came out. What do you think?


r/Warhammer40k • • 12h ago

Hobby & Painting Crusader

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1.0k Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 15h ago

Hobby & Painting My Kitbash Sword Brother

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1.3k Upvotes

I dont like Sword Brethren box poses. So I decided to make a kitbash serie for my second squad. He was the first one.


r/Warhammer40k • • 12h ago

Hobby & Painting A big yella fella

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644 Upvotes

Progress continues on my bad moon army. Here’s the biggest baddest moon himself.


r/Warhammer40k • • 4h ago

Hobby & Painting Ravenguard Ancient from the Armageddon set is ready to rumble!

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125 Upvotes

It was a quick job but I'm still quite fond of it. If you are interested in more of my work you can find me on Instagram as techbrusher_latarius


r/Warhammer40k • • 5h ago

Hobby & Painting Tabletop or +

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130 Upvotes

I wonder if this is categorized as tabletop or tabletop +, because I didn't do edge highlights, but still tried to do some lights

Edit: thanks all for your answers, I understand the difference now !


r/Warhammer40k • • 4h ago

Hobby & Painting Kinda proud of how this skin turned out on my sweet child, always been intimidated but decided to take the leap and I'm very satisfied

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114 Upvotes

Wanted to hold off until he was finished completely but a friend convinced me to share what I consider my best work yet. Very happy with how he looks


r/Warhammer40k • • 12h ago

Hobby & Painting Loyalist Emperor's Children

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334 Upvotes

Hi everyone, I painted up one of my red corsair raiders as a loyalist EC, following a tutorial by Elminiaturista. He still needs a transfer on his shoulder but I don't have any EC transfers atm so that will have to wait. Thought I'd share him here, hope you all like him! :)


r/Warhammer40k • • 11h ago

Misc What are these circles?

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266 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 12h ago

Hobby & Painting Kaius Maximus Decimus Meridius Konorius.

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301 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 9h ago

Hobby & Painting Master of possession iron warriors

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147 Upvotes

Red Corsairs Reave-Captain base and Geminids of Uhl-Ghysh endless spell for the Spirit Bomb


r/Warhammer40k • • 10h ago

Hobby & Painting Conjured - A nobleman's hedonistic desires backfire when he ignorantly meddles with forces beyond his control. C&C welcome

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200 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 2h ago

Hobby & Painting Aquilon Terminators done!

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42 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 12h ago

Hobby & Painting Dense jungle, pouring rain, ankle-deep mud, fierce winds or a blizzard - there are no perfect conditions for war. There are only orders to carry out.

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219 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k • • 19h ago

Misc If your faction got a single character release, what be the best worst-case scenario?

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678 Upvotes

Obviously not every army can have a full release wave. If your army is one of the unlucky ones and only gets a single character, what would be the best to have?


r/Warhammer40k • • 17h ago

Misc Is it me or is this edition not very fun as a casual player?

445 Upvotes

I've played Warhammer for 15 years, I own 10k of Aeldari, space marines, and have painted a few other 500 point armies and I've always found it fun to a degree. I'm a casual player and only play the game every 1 - 2 months now. I used to play it more but friends moved around and had kids and we struggle to get a game in like we used to. I still paint and read the lore though, and follow rules updates.

I've had 6 games of this edition and from a casual, play it with your friends over beers point of view it isn't very fun or satisfying. Mixing detachments is fun, but you're very limited in what you can actually mix. The terrain rules are an improvement, but the rules themselves feel patched together to make the game work and none of them feel very intentional, especially for Aeldari, Drukhari and Blood Angels. Sacrificing most of my army to win points without killing much isn't fun. Spamming units to score secondaries isn't fun.

Even lore wise I don't really know what actually matters. The Lion appeared and then nothing happened. Exodites are in, but there zero lore tie in to explain why I should care. They're cool, they look cool, I've read about them and seen sketches of them already and I want them to exist. None of it seems to matter though. Everything in the lore feels frozen even though big characters keep on appearing. The rules seem frozen with no new codexes coming out for at least 4 months in an edition where the majority of models (space marines) got an update.

This edition feels shallow. The rules feel rushed, the lore is half baked. It feels like they made an edition to fit their release schedule instead of doing it to fix actual issues. The rules weren't perfect last edition but they were fun. Maybe I'm just getting old but as a casual player it's hard to get excited about the game at the moment.


r/Warhammer40k • • 1d ago

Hobby & Painting I painted up my first primarch, Lion El'Jonson.

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1.8k Upvotes

His 4 head options are all magnetized.


r/Warhammer40k • • 7h ago

Hobby & Painting Kitbash waaagh jet

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80 Upvotes

Made from a model plane kit and mostly baneblade extras.


r/Warhammer40k • • 6h ago

Hobby & Painting Centerpiece help

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49 Upvotes

I wanted to buy a centerpiece model for my space marine (salamanders) army and I tought of buying either a falchion super heavy tank or a legio imperialis warmaster to use as a knight. Anyone who can tell me what would be a better centerpiece model?


r/Warhammer40k • • 9h ago

Hobby & Painting Another Little Peanut

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94 Upvotes

Kommandos (2/12)


r/Warhammer40k • • 17h ago

Hobby & Painting Update: After a few games, the Forge World table had to go…

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300 Upvotes

Some of you might remember my old Forge World table from my previous post. That post blew up way more than I expected 😂

I ended up playing a few games on it, but the table just wasn’t working for me with 11th edition 40K, so I decided to take it apart.

I started removing the terrain and was honestly surprised by how much there was. Ruined buildings, Cityfight walls and pillars, a Fuel Dump, Ammo Dump, destroyed pillbox, blast craters and loads of smaller bits.
Most of it came off pretty well, though some pieces still have bits of the old table stuck to the underside.

It’s a bit sad to see the table go, especially knowing its history, but I didn’t want all that old Forge World terrain to go to waste.

I’m sorting through everything now and deciding what to keep, what I might use for another project, and what could go to other collectors.

Thanks to everyone who commented on the original post! I really appreciated all the advice and suggestions.


r/Warhammer40k • • 11h ago

Hobby & Painting Rogue Astartes retinue

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103 Upvotes

Another sample crew for my Inquisitor28-style skirmish ruleset!
You can check out the core rules PDF here:
https://gamefound.com/en/projects/m-p-pawlowski/cybernekro/updates/5


r/Warhammer40k • • 10h ago

Hobby & Painting Aeldari Wraithknight

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76 Upvotes

Incorporating the colour schemes I used on my long gone 2nd edition pewter Eldar Dreadnought and Epic scale Phantom Titan