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Had a slightly hilarious experience at a local game store on Sunday. I went down to play 40K, my first time playing in this store.

As I am getting my army out of the case and organized, a guy I don't know walks up and compliments me on my paint job and strikes up a conversation about some green stuff work I did, etc. Seems like an OK enough guy, late 30s or so. Next thing you know, he is casually picking up my rhinos without my permission. New game store, I think, I just won't say anything and hope for the best. I don't want to get a reputation as an arsehole the first time I visit. Well, of course he breaks one of the hatches on top of my rhino. No big deal, I say to him, and I tell him I will glue it back later. I take the rhino from him. What does he do? He proceeds to begin picking up my plague marines by their CCWs, many of which are converted... At that point I asked him to put them down because I am worried about other stuff coming unglued. He says "geez, OK" like I was being oversensitive about it. He had already broken one model!

Next time I am just going to ask him (or anyone else) WTF they think they are doing if they start picking up my stuff without asking!

Anyway, I just thought I would share this story and see if anyone else had any horror stories to share.

You'll find most Dakka veterans bring along a useful tool for these types of situations.

Had a kid accidentally dump a coke into about 4,000 points of BA once. Total, total accident, saw it happen; but damn it took some control to keep it together.

Stories like this is why I don't take my minis out until I'm ready to put them on the table to play. A bit of paranoia can save you a lot of headache.

After getting my Pain Boy needles bent time and time again by kids picking them up by the weapon I finally got some payback last Apoc game.

I had already replaced them with small metal rod that had an extremely pointed end from me cutting them to size. I left them because they looked better with a little off set cut to the end.

After asking a child to please stop picking up the models on the table (we were in the middle of a game) and putting them back in the wrong place I received some attitude from the mother about what harm could he do.....seconds later he broke the roll bar off of not one but two ork trukks.

Before I could teach him a new word he moved over to my boyz nob, guess what he grabbed? Yup....the pain boy. When the mother saw his little finger bleeding she proceeded to yell at me! The red shirt kindly explained I had asked her little ones several times to please not handle the models and he had already broken two.

I hadn't intended that to happen but sometimes what goes around comes around.

BTW, my 8 year old plays with the same orks all the time and has never cut himself, know why? He listened and doesn't pick them up by the weapon.

I'm getting tired of being other children's parents.

Rant off....sorry.

At least they were kids. The perpetrator in my case was late 30s at least.

What possesses people to pick up models by the weapon, anyway? It seems so natural to so many people but it is the last thing I would think of to pick up a model with.

I do it with my models. Because I know which ones to do it with and which ones not to. Like the Balrog, for instance...

I always pick up by the body...better safe then sorry....that and I can't remember what I pinned and what I didn't.

I like it when people ask permission to pick up other peoples models. Once a kid picked up a friends Land Raider and walked away with it. Hahahaha! What that kids was thinking was beyond us but the land raider never left the guys sight again. And I also need to mention the Laind Raider was only primed black. So, there was no paint job to look at.

-I always ask befor touching someone's minis
-Im more careful with other's posession than my own ( i treat it like im handling a rare diamond or something )
-I always try to pick them up by the base , unless its too heavy and it might slip off.
-That or i slide it closer to table edge and just look at it up close without touching.

With that said , i hate it when people eat pizza and touch my minis.

Some Ancients players like to replace the spears in their pike blocks with real pins in order to save elbow on table damages.

Now show me on the unpainted terminator where he touched you...

I have always made it clear that there is one penalty for such crimes, as one foolish imp (in his late teens) at our FLGS some years back found on picking up my Teronus The Ultimate Dragon by his very heavy and unstable wings, upon which, Teronus proceeded to break perfectly back into all separate pieces as he connected with the floor... On seeing the look in my eye (I was but 20 at that time and far more prone to violent outbursts), the store owner leapt in between us, picked up the teen over his shoulder, marched outside, put the teen down and banned his ass from the gaming room for 3 months, marched back in and gave me a voucher for £10 and sat with me after closing to help me put poor old Teronus back together again.

DONT TOUCH MY GAK>>>OMFG>>>SLAY!!!!!!



Oh, here is a picture of Teronus, made by Grenadier way back when...
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/sol/grenadier/images/2525.jpg

There's a dude that hangs out at our FLGS who breaks other peoples' stuff with such regularity that his name has become the verb we associate with people breaking other dudes' stuff.

Like, let's say his name is "John" (it's not, but we need an example), so if some breaks something, they have "John'd" it. The owner of the store, who is one of "John's" friends, seems to bear the brunt of this crime, for example: "John" has "John'd" the same Devastator w/Plasma Cannon 3 times.

Once he stepped on the FLGS Owner's Xbox360 and broke the faceplate off...and he goes up to the front of the store to tell the FLGSO and when he does, head hanging low and full of embarassment and shame, he gets this response for the FLGSO about the incident: "John", I'm not angry that you broke mah'box because I figured it was just a matter of time. This alone should tell you what you need to change."

Nomog wrote:After getting my Pain Boy needles bent time and time again by kids picking them up by the weapon I finally got some payback last Apoc game.

I had already replaced them with small metal rod that had an extremely pointed end from me cutting them to size. I left them because they looked better with a little off set cut to the end.

After asking a child to please stop picking up the models on the table (we were in the middle of a game) and putting them back in the wrong place I received some attitude from the mother about what harm could he do.....seconds later he broke the roll bar off of not one but two ork trukks.

Before I could teach him a new word he moved over to my boyz nob, guess what he grabbed? Yup....the pain boy. When the mother saw his little finger bleeding she proceeded to yell at me! The red shirt kindly explained I had asked her little ones several times to please not handle the models and he had already broken two.

I hadn't intended that to happen but sometimes what goes around comes around.

BTW, my 8 year old plays with the same orks all the time and has never cut himself, know why? He listened and doesn't pick them up by the weapon.

I'm getting tired of being other children's parents.

Rant off....sorry.

This story fills me with rage. Both toward the mother and her slowed spawn.
It seems that some time shortly after my generation, a majority parents mutually decided to not only let their children run wild doing whatever they want, but also fiercely defend said child from anyone telling them to knock it off. Ultimately not only refusing to parent, but also getting angry when somebody is forced to step in and parent in their behalf.

On topic: Never had a child mess with my stuff. I'm deliberately intimidating when they come around. But I have had grown men walk up right next to me (during my turn, mind you) lean over right in front of me so their head is in my way and their face is 5 inches from the model I was about to use, knock the model over so they could see the paint job, linger, and finally wander off while I'm left speechless at their unmitigated audacity.

I've had children look at my models before, but on those times they all asked before they touched. As I've gotten better at painting, and as more time has become invested in each miniature, I'd imagine I'd be more reluctant, but so long as they hold the mini by the base, and don't damage it, I don't mind.

If you want to see my minis, all I ask is that you ask politely, and that, upon recieving permission, you be careful about it.

Once when I was in the FLGS about to start a game of 40k with my Orks against someone with Space Marines, a bunch of kids from a painting class on the other side of the battle bunker came over and just grabbed my Ghazghkull models and started fiddling with him, and bits of him were coming off! What's worse, they were scraping at the paint to see how thick it was and they had greasy fingers from eating doritos. Before I could even yell at them to stop, Ghazzie was covered in cheesy grease, fingerprints, and a lot of the paint was gone.

the most vivid experience I'v had has was in the middle of a game, a kid picked up two of my terminators, off the play field mind you, and proceeded to smash them together in a battle of adolescent stupidity and Cheeto finger mayhem. One of the Termies assault cannons snapped, and the others power sword popped off.
I pulled them out of his hands and got to his eye level, and said as softly as I could, "The next time I see you Im going to rip off your hands and shove them so far up your nose you'll be smelling Cheetos till your 50."

Kid never came back.

There's a guy in our store that nobody likes, he is always coming around and handling models. Once during a game he leaned on the wrong end of a table (4x6 plyboard on a smaller table) and almost dumped both armies on the floor. After doing it AGAIN I yelled at him to stop and go away.

To make up for it after the game he started "helping" me pack up my models, by picking up my guardians by the handfull and handing them to me. I yelled again for him to stop touching my fething models! The rest of the group was waiting for me to drag him outside and beat the crap out of him.

Man i sure am glad i play this game with MATURE ADULTS now. I have seen plenty of kids break these models at the other store i used to play at that is why i only let the ones who ask and treat their own models really well pick up or touch my minis. The guys story with the kid who cut himself on a mini is hilarious.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Now show me on the unpainted terminator where he touched you...

I have always made it clear that there is one penalty for such crimes, as one foolish imp (in his late teens) at our FLGS some years back found on picking up my Teronus The Ultimate Dragon by his very heavy and unstable wings, upon which, Teronus proceeded to break perfectly back into all separate pieces as he connected with the floor... On seeing the look in my eye (I was but 20 at that time and far more prone to violent outbursts), the store owner leapt in between us, picked up the teen over his shoulder, marched outside, put the teen down and banned his ass from the gaming room for 3 months, marched back in and gave me a voucher for £10 and sat with me after closing to help me put poor old Teronus back together again.

DONT TOUCH MY GAK>>>OMFG>>>SLAY!!!!!!



Oh, here is a picture of Teronus, made by Grenadier way back when...
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/sol/grenadier/images/2525.jpg

Lol! Sorry about the damage, but the pic just sums up your response perfectly

Cheese Elemental wrote:Once when I was in the FLGS about to start a game of 40k with my Orks against someone with Space Marines, a bunch of kids from a painting class on the other side of the battle bunker came over and just grabbed my Ghazghkull models and started fiddling with him, and bits of him were coming off! What's worse, they were scraping at the paint to see how thick it was and they had greasy fingers from eating doritos. Before I could even yell at them to stop, Ghazzie was covered in cheesy grease, fingerprints, and a lot of the paint was gone.

10 hours of work went into my Ghazzie, if any kid dared do something like that, even touch it with his disgusting fingers, I'd snap. In fact, that battle bunker probably wouldn't have my business anymore.

combatmedic wrote:the most vivid experience I'v had has was in the middle of a game, a kid picked up two of my terminators, off the play field mind you, and proceeded to smash them together in a battle of adolescent stupidity and Cheeto finger mayhem. One of the Termies assault cannons snapped, and the others power sword popped off.
I pulled them out of his hands and got to his eye level, and said as softly as I could, "The next time I see you Im going to rip off your hands and shove them so far up your nose you'll be smelling Cheetos till your 50."

Kid never came back.

You showed a lot of restraint. I would have slapped that kid around. I have no tolerance for gaks like that. Even less for their piss-poor simalacrums of parents.

I'm glad that kids don't show up at my FLGS. I'll admit that I'm not very patient with people who insist on handling my models, especially without my permission.

Years ago at my FLGS I was running a 40k demo to recruit new players. I decided to use my freshly painted Blood Angels Land Raider. Sure as some kid picks it up to get a closer look and fumbles it. It hit concrete floor and pieces flew. My friends who were sitting at table swear my face was more red than the Land Raider.

Ahh the damned kids who don't have a clue at how we cherish da dollies

I was hanging out with friends at the mall when we saw this geeky kid that went to my school walk out of the GW with his army. I was trying to impress this girl so we started harassing him. Like playing keep away with his models. Anyways I pocketed a couple and thought they looked cool when I got home and that's how I started 40k.

At a recent tournament, the two paint judges came up during a game to judge painting. One judge accidentally bumped the table and knocked my bloodthirster off. The other painting judge instinctively tried to catch it.. with his foot.. and punted it across the room

avantgarde wrote:I was hanging out with friends at the mall when we saw this geeky kid that went to my school walk out of the GW with his army. I was trying to impress this girl so we started harassing him. Like playing keep away with his models. Anyways I pocketed a couple and thought they looked cool when I got home and that's how I started 40k.

donkey-cave

avantgarde wrote:I was hanging out with friends at the mall when we saw this geeky kid that went to my school walk out of the GW with his army. I was trying to impress this girl so we started harassing him. Like playing keep away with his models. Anyways I pocketed a couple and thought they looked cool when I got home and that's how I started 40k.

The geek should hunt you down or steal the chick from your ass!

That sounds like the truest story I've ever heard!

I've sat on my brother's Ghazkhgull, that he put on a STOOL!!!

He bought it off some guy already painted, and was already massively chipped thanks to not owning proper case for an unsealed metal model. So not as bad as Cheese's situation.

My brother then bought some Black orcs to convert for 40k, he made the drummer for the hell of it, his name was Little drummer boy. Then via strange architecture of house, I dropped him into the X-mas tree. Didn't break. Couldn't find him for a month, though.

avantgarde: I was hanging out with friends at the mall when we saw this geeky kid that went to my school walk out of the GW with his army. I was trying to impress this girl so we started harassing him. Like playing keep away with his models. Anyways I pocketed a couple and thought they looked cool when I got home and that's how I started 40k.

... "don't you mean an art?"

On Topic
I've had to snap at a few people during space hulk nights (1st ed) for grabbing a fistful of genestealers.... not only did they scratch the paint, but getting those figs abart is like playing with a barrel full of monkeys (the kids toys that used to come in reb barrels).