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Community Fan-Art Challenge · Round 1
23 pages in our Weapons & Vehicles archive still show an Artwork Pending card. Round 1 opens the first 8 of them. Pick one, paint it, and the community's favourite becomes that page's main art. The overall favourite becomes our Featured Artist of the Month.
Submissions open Nov 1
The subject is the star. Characters and units are welcome, but the brief's subject (the weapon, vehicle, unit or battle scene) must be the clear main focus: large, central and instantly recognizable. Entries where a character overshadows the subject won't be approved.
Every approved entry stays in its page's gallery with full credit, win or not. If you pick up a brush for this, you're part of the archive, and we'll be cheering every one of you on.
8 subjects open for submissions from November 1. Open a brief for the full description and the submission form.
The Imperium's belt-fed .998-calibre support weapon, nicknamed the Backbreaker. It has a thick, perforated barrel and a heavy receiver, and a long ammunition belt snakes to a backpack or ammo box. It's braced by a Devastator Marine or set on a tripod by a Guard weapons team.
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Two bolters fused side by side and fired one-handed. It's the classic sidearm of Terminators and Grey Knights and a pintle mount on Imperial tanks. Each barrel has its own magazine, and both spit mass-reactive bolts.
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A short-ranged cooker that fires a sub-molecular thermal beam and reduces tank armour, bunker doors and walkers to bubbling slag. Look for a stubby barrel ringed with heat-sink vanes and a pressurised fuel canister.
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The twin-barrelled heavy thermal cannon. Its roaring fusion beam vaporises battle-tank glacis plates. It's carried by Sororitas Retributors and Devastators, and mounted on Immolators, Attack Bikes and Dreadnoughts.
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The screaming motorised war-axe of the World Eaters and Khorne Berzerkers: a heavy axe head ringed with a ripping chain of jagged teeth, on a brass-bound haft hung with skulls and spikes. It gives up all defence for one thing, tearing through ceramite and bone.
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The Chaplain's sacred badge of office and a lethal power maul. Its head is shaped as a winged skull or Imperial aquila on a long haft, wrapped in a crackling disruption field. It's carried by Reclusiarchs in black armour and skull helms.
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A Space Marine infantry fighting vehicle built on the Rhino chassis. It gives up half its transport space for a roof turret, most often a twin heavy bolter or twin lascannon. Boxy, tracked and covered in Chapter heraldry and purity seals.
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The T'au Fire Caste's sleek, curved anti-grav troop carrier. It skims low over the ground on jet nacelles, carries an accelerator burst cannon under the nose and gun drones docked on the hull, and drops its rear ramp to deploy a squad of Fire Warriors.
Read the brief →Lore page15 more subjects still need art. Their briefs are up so you can start planning, but submissions stay locked until they're assigned to a round. We'll announce each one on the Updates page.
The cruel signature weapons of Commorragh's elite. The Agoniser is a barbed, segmented neural whip or gauntlet crackling with a violet-white disruption field that sets every nerve on fire. The Huskblade is an Archon's slender, ornate sword that drains every drop of moisture from its victim and leaves a dry, crumbling husk.
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The immense golden greatsword of the Master of Mankind, its blade wreathed in living fire and its hilt crowned with Imperial heraldry. Lost after the Siege of Terra, it is now carried into battle by the resurrected Primarch Roboute Guilliman.
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The most infamous chainaxe in the galaxy. It was forged for the Primarch Angron, then rebuilt for Khârn the Betrayer with teeth taken from the fangs of a mica-dragon. Brass, blood and a howling motor; it has ended more lives than most wars.
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Industrial tools turned into weapons of revolution by the Genestealer Cults: the heavy mining laser, the seismic cannon and the heavy rock cutter or drill. They're battered hazard-striped machines, sprayed with cult icons and hauled by Neophyte teams or mounted on Goliath trucks.
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Belisarius Cawl's heaviest Primaris grav-tank. It hovers on repulsor-field plates, and its turret carries a macro plasma incinerator or a heavy laser destroyer, bristling with secondary weapons. It's massive, angular and unmistakably Primaris.
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The Drukhari Kabals' bladed long rifle. It fires storms of razor-thin crystal shards coated in hyper-lethal toxins chosen to kill slowly and painfully. The rapid-firing splinter cannon is its heavy cousin.
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A long-barrelled, high-velocity automatic cannon firing solid armour-piercing and high-explosive shells. It's the workhorse of Astra Militarum heavy weapons teams and Sentinels, and also mounted on vehicles and Dreadnoughts across the galaxy.
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The Aeldari heavy laser. A long, elegant wraithbone lance focuses coherent light through a faceted prism to punch thin holes through tank armour. It's mounted on War Walkers, Falcons, Vypers and Guardian weapon platforms.
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A relic graviton weapon from the Dark Age of Technology, kept by the Techmarines of Mars. It turns a target's own mass against it, crushing armour and bodies into the ground. Look for blocky casing, ring coils and a visible gravity distortion.
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A Harlequin's wrist-mounted bracer. It punches a small hole, then a hundred-metre coil of monomolecular wire unfurls inside the victim and shreds them from within. The Caress and the Embrace are its sister weapons.
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A jagged two-handed greatsword of black iron and brass, forged in the Blood God's realm and bound with daemonic essence. It's carried by Khorne's Bloodletters and burns with runes that drip like molten blood.
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The Callidus Temple's xeno-archaeotech blade, made of living necrodermis that slips partly out of reality to pass through armour and force fields. It's paired with the Neural Shredder, a pistol that destroys the mind and leaves the body untouched.
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A power fist with a screaming, disruption-sheathed chainblade under the knuckles. It was built to carve through bulkheads and tank hulls in boarding actions, and in Chaos hands it's covered in spikes, rust and eight-pointed stars.
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Imperial precision killing tools: the Vindicare Temple's Exitus rifle with its spymask and special rounds, the Catachan long-las and Ratling needle rifles, and the Astartes Scout sniper rifle. They're long-barrelled and scope-heavy, waiting for one perfect shot.
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Ancient Martian heat-ray weapons from the Age of Strife and the Great Crusade. They have ornate brass ring-coils and focusing lenses, and fire deflagrating beams that make flesh and armour burst into flame. The weapon of the Legions in the Horus Heresy.
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