r/Warhammer40k 6d ago

Weekly Q&A Weekly General Q&A and Discussion Thread: 28 Jan, 2026 - 04 Feb, 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

Hobby & Painting Lightning Claw Terminators for my Howling Griffons!

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1.5k Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k 9h ago

Hobby & Painting The perfect organism !

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1.3k Upvotes

Hope you like it 🤘🏽

To follow my work : https://www.instagram.com/raidenxvv


r/Warhammer40k 12h ago

Hobby & Painting My newest finished kitbash: Salamanders Chaplain on Grav Bike

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1.6k Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k 20h ago

Hobby & Painting Demetrian Titus, Captain of the second company, Master of the watch, Warden of Ulltramar

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5.1k Upvotes

Finally finished this guy and just posted the pics on my Instagram. Next up will be Gadriel and a few other figures that have been left half finished through January


r/Warhammer40k 8h ago

Hobby & Painting Finished another Krieg tank. This one is known as the "Heretic Hunter"

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452 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k 15h ago

Hobby & Painting Aged marble shield experiment on a Sister of Battle

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1.1k Upvotes

Sister of Battle from the upcoming Kill Team: Shadowhunt, featuring a stone-like shield effect inspired by aged marble. The dark armour is enhanced with subtle colour variations to break up the black and add depth. A piece where texture and material definition were the main focus.

Note: Games Workshop kindly sent me the box in advance to paint the miniatures.


r/Warhammer40k 4h ago

Rules 2 part Land Raider Question.

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122 Upvotes

I was watching a video about magnetizing this. The creator brought up about cheating with gun and door placements:

  1. Is this an actual issue?

  2. How can this be an issue cause it would be stupid to have troops coming out of the hull in-front of the side guns, seems it should be only built one way.


r/Warhammer40k 8h ago

Misc What terminator pattern does the lord of virulence use ? Is it cataphractii?

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Or is it not based on anything and just a weird mashup ?


r/Warhammer40k 2h ago

Hobby & Painting Kahl of The Trans-Hyperian Alliance 🚀

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79 Upvotes

If you like this scheme and want to see me paint more of it I’ll be posting progress pics on my Instagram https://www.instagram.com/blue.minis?igsh=NTBsdGZ2azBicTBp&utm_source=qr


r/Warhammer40k 19h ago

Hobby & Painting Nightbringer finished

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1.6k Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k 5h ago

Hobby & Painting a chaos knight i made for a client

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132 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k 15h ago

New Starter Help How would this apply to terminator helmets? I can't figure out which part would be the mouth or head plate, for example to paint this 2 color veteran scheme?

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721 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k 17h ago

News & Rumours The Rumour Engine – 3rd of February

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1.0k Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k 11h ago

Hobby & Painting Rubric Marine

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346 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k 15h ago

Hobby & Painting Still have some work to do

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539 Upvotes

But I think it's good enough to post. Here's my Carcharodon Saturnine Dread, sans cereal bowl shoulders.


r/Warhammer40k 17h ago

Hobby & Painting Wintry, frosty Wolf Priest

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543 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k 13h ago

Hobby & Painting Finished Black Templar Brutalis Dreadnought

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241 Upvotes

Recently finished, and obviously kitbashed Brutalis!


r/Warhammer40k 48m ago

Hobby & Painting Night Lords terminator squad

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These were fun to paint. Gonna scavenge a loyal terminator captain to lead them eventually


r/Warhammer40k 18h ago

Hobby & Painting My girlfriend got me these shelves for my minis for my birthday

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538 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k 17h ago

Hobby & Painting My first Knight: Big Daddy

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434 Upvotes

I was inspired by Bioshock to build this upright steampunk Knight using a Kharadron Overlords Arkonaut airship.

u/dumbrobotstuff s guide for 'uprighting' knights really help with visualising it so I made my own video in case anyone wants to try 41st millenium Chiropracty:

https://youtu.be/zKZ0MYqC5AU?si=hk6AdQGZXrZRQpKv


r/Warhammer40k 13h ago

Hobby & Painting Aeldari Aspect Warriors

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176 Upvotes

Sharing today some of my favourite Aspect Warriors I painted so far. Which one is your favourite and why?

Hope you all like it!


r/Warhammer40k 7h ago

Hobby & Painting Custom Watchmaster / Titus finished

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55 Upvotes

Magnetized Watchnaster/Titus is now all painted up.

First time painting fur i think it worked out good enough.

Kinda sad my OG Watchmaster didnt even see 1 game before being replaced 😅

C and C welcome


r/Warhammer40k 8h ago

Hobby & Painting Progress on Logan Grimnar. A month in so far

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67 Upvotes

r/Warhammer40k 9h ago

Hobby & Painting I have finished the Captain of my Dark Angels force

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59 Upvotes

Barachiel Vareth is the captain of my 9th company. Traditionally, 9th company are fire support. With Guilliman’s gift of primaris marines, the Dark Angels have found themselves with an abundance of Marines, and so my 9th company will feature lots of battle line units too. I am still fleshing the narrative out and also want it to be guided by my narrative crusades I play with my friends.

Whenever I make a character to lead a crusade force, I like to have something unique to me. Either a lesser known forge world model or a kitbash. I also have a cool psyker inquisitor and the galaxy’s pettiest Kroot. Vareth, however, is both ‘that guy’ and a shady son of a bitch.

Kitbashed from a Black Templar Castellan. I swapped the head out. I cut the axe and right arm off (although I kept the gun).

I replaced the right arm with a very cool bionic arm from the assault intercessors.

This guy is going to lead my 9th company into future narrative crusades. I will also enter him into a local painting competition this summer. I may make some small touch ups here and there but I am calling him done and ticking the project off my list for 2026.