Image Usage Terms
Image Usage and Licensing Terms
40K Gallery is an independent, fan-run gallery of Warhammer 40,000 community artwork. The pieces shown here are created by artists around the world and remain their property. This page explains who owns the images and how to request permission to use them.
Who owns the artwork
Each piece is the copyright of the individual artist who created it. 40K Gallery does not own the artwork and does not hold the rights to license it on any artist’s behalf.
Warhammer 40,000, and all associated names, characters, settings, and imagery, are the intellectual property of Games Workshop. 40K Gallery is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Games Workshop. The artwork displayed here is unofficial fan art created by the community.
Our role
We display each piece with credit and a link back to the artist who made it. Our purpose is to showcase and promote these artists. 40K Gallery is not a stock library, and we do not sell, grant, or broker usage rights.
How to use or license an image
If you would like to use, license, reproduce, print, or commission a piece, please contact the original artist directly. Every artwork page and artist page on this site links to the artist’s own website and social profiles, which is the right place to reach them. Permission must come from the artist, not from 40K Gallery.
Please do not assume any image is free to reuse. Appearing in this gallery does not place a work in the public domain and does not grant you a license to it.
For artists
If you created a piece shown here and you would like it credited differently, updated, or removed, please contact us at [email protected] or contact and we will take care of it promptly.
Contact
Questions about attribution or these terms can be sent to [email protected] or contact.
Photographs of my own models
Alongside the community gallery, this site has a section for my own painted miniatures at My Models. Those photographs are mine rather than a contributing artist’s, so the terms above do not apply to them and this section does instead.
What I hold
The photograph is mine, and so is the work on the model: the painting, the conversion, the building. What sits underneath that work varies from piece to piece.
The collection is a mix of three things:
- Games Workshop kits. Painted and sometimes converted by me, but the sculpt is theirs.
- Conversions built from other things. Toys, model kits, parts from elsewhere, cut up and rebuilt into something new. My work sits on top of somebody else’s product design.
- Scratch-built pieces. Made by me from raw materials, not based on an existing model.
That distinction does not matter for most of what people want to do with a photo, but it matters for one thing, and I have set it out below.
What you are welcome to do
Use my model photographs freely for non-commercial purposes, whichever of the three a given model is. Hobby blogs, forums, Discord servers, painting guides, tutorials, army showcases, social posts, all fine, no need to ask first. Credit me and link back to the page the photo came from, and we are square.
Credit like this, or close to it:
Photo by Casey, 40k.gallery
Commercial use
This is where it depends on the model, so ask me and I will tell you which kind it is.
For scratch-built pieces, the whole thing is mine and it is a real conversation to have. Ask and the answer may well be yes.
For Games Workshop kits, no, and not because I am holding out for a fee. Games Workshop’s guidelines are clear that fan content built on their designs cannot be sold or monetised. I am not in a position to grant commercial rights over their work, so there is nothing for me to license. Games Workshop is who you would need to speak to, not me.
For conversions of other companies’ products, the same logic applies to whoever made the original. I can speak for my own work on the piece, but not for what it was built from.
Everything else
Prints, publication, anything that does not sit comfortably in the above, get in touch and ask. I am easy to deal with and the answer is usually yes.
Machine learning
I would rather these images were not scraped into training datasets. I know that is difficult to enforce and I am asking rather than demanding.