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 Nevelon wrote:
Seeing people just dump minis into a box. Even unpainted, things are going to break and snap. But painted. <cringe>

Have a little respect for your army!

One of the local players purchased a Bueatifully painted army from another of the locals who was know as one of the best painters locally. The guy then stored and transported the models in ziplock bags.

Going to a LGS or Warhammer store with your army. People telling you it's nice. Coming back next time to see the person who said it was nice, copied said army and accused you of being unoriginal and copying his army.

Seriously, some people need to take a swim in a pool of acid.

My ocd is removing mold lines. It is proabaly fair to say I spend far too long on this stage.
My peeve is experienced gamers hammering noobs and then acting superior or bragging about it. Particularly in non tourney environments, when using cheese lists which have been copy and pasted from t'internet

- Playing against unpainted armies
- Playing Warmachine with construction paper as terrain
- Having that one friend that complains about OP Armies/Powergaming armies - when they are guilty of this and run one themselves
- Opponent high/drinking while playing is great - until you're 2-3 hours deep in the game



For me? Gluing magnets wrong on a model is the only thing I ever loudly raged out about. That and building large metal models

Oh, I've had trouble with fething up magnet polarity. My Barracuda will never be able to equip its missile racks because of that.

Tale of the stupid genius #1

The common-sensless genius picks up a partially assembled FB giant which is sitting on the desk, inbetween two base coated Leman Russ's
"Thats not Imperial guard" he says with a snort
"Thats a giant; it's going with the Orcs" i reply
"What was it doing here?" he asks
"The glue was drying" i say with a sigh

The common sensless genius then picks up Khorne Beserker
"Why is this Chaos marine red; i thought they were black?" he says in the same tone reserved for 'Picard vs Kirk' arguments
"Its a Khorne beserer; they're usually red" i say
" 'Corn..beserkers'...are they new?' he asks
"No; they've been around for years" i say
"I've never heard of them" he shrugs

The common senseless genius then picks up jungle fighter which is decked out in a desert colour scheme
"Why is this guy tan?" he asks
"He's going to be in a desert themed army; you dont have to always paint the models like the picture on the box"
i answer

"You dont?" he says in shock

Mostly my pet peeve is Gamers vs. Fluffsters arguments and which is the superior way to play the game.

 brushcommando wrote:
Its been said already, but I'm going to have to second the finding surprise mold lines in the middle of painting. Just the worst.

Oh god this is the worst, I can deal with almost anything else but after meticulously cleaning every mold line off models into the late hours (probably why I missed it) then going out to prime and finding the mold line while painting.. I've just had to stop what I'm doing and walk away for a few hours. Next day it's being angrily stripped, I just glare at the container of stripper. I take alot of pride in my minis and doing my best to make them look good, this just kills me

Removing mold lines by far. God I loathe every moment of that tedium.

People who smash they're unpainted/glopped models into yours when entering melee. You might not give a gak about your stuff but don't damage mine.

People who dog someone's paint job on their models and then proceed to set up an unpainted army. I've had idiots comment loudly about how terrible a model looks with its (obvious) owner standing right next to them. Everybody is at their own level of painting ability and even Golden Demon winners have somebody better at it than them.

I've been a painter as a career and won my share of competitions and always try and find something positive to say about a model. Even the guy who had the bases glued on upside down and had scraps of his skin superglued all over the models.

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
scraps of his skin superglued all over the models.

And I thought that I couldn't read anything more horrible today. I was wrong.

Yep. Even better when you don't realize what it is until it's been in your hands for a while.

People with more money then care. Like every month they have a new army because it's more 'powerful' in the meta. And they'll buy the biggest and most expensive stuff and be like "What you don't have a Warhound Titan? You must not want to win." -Not an exact example, but you get the idea.

And then tying into that. The 'unsolicited advice guy' where people are gaming with sub-competitive units or non-optimal armies and they hover around and go "Defilers...you don't want to run those for Chaos it's Maulerfiends and Heldrakes or nothing." -again change units to suit your armies you get the idea.

Finally people doing Mathhammer DURING the game. I get it, you like knowing the odds...just please god we have little over an hour, chop chop son.

 Nevelon wrote:
Seeing people just dump minis into a box. Even unpainted, things are going to break and snap. But painted. <cringe>

Have a little respect for your army!

This^^^

Unless it's my orks (lol)

 Skymate wrote:
Neckbeards [is that the term I'm looking for?]
Being accused of being a 'nerd' from a guy wearing a star trek shirt and holding an antiquated monster Manuel.
Even I've kissed more girls then he ever will. HA, I've done other things with girls too

Yeah, well he has a giant old Spanish guy in tow. So don't mess.

Random skulls™ everywhere on everything ever made for 40k.

Also that moment when you work out a nice quick scheme for horde painting then you realise you have to spend about twice as long as it took you to paint the squad up to this point picking out tiny little details shotgunned at the models like the skulls, gems and jewellery. It does look nice having a bit of it, but some kits are just spammed and too busy looking too.

The skulls are not exactly random though. The Imperium is a matyrdom cult so they make sense in that context.

I'll chip in...I HATE duplicate models. The unreasonable length I go through so that none of my models are in h exact same pose. not real an issue in 40k but Warmachine doesn't make all unique sculpts for all their models. So I have to constantly cut and repose to make everyone look like they have a slight different pose. Its very ocd.

 BigWaaagh wrote:
Oh, I got a couple...

Beautifully sculpted models painted with cheap, crappy, craft store paint using cheap, crappy, craft store brushes.

I do my models painted with cheap craft store paint and (not really sure if cheap) craft store brushes, and even have someone who wants me to do some more painting for them, my work is not great but it is a decent table top degree, which works for me (don't waste time on shading and gak.)

 rayphoton wrote:
I'll chip in...I HATE duplicate models. The unreasonable length I go through so that none of my models are in h exact same pose. not real an issue in 40k but Warmachine doesn't make all unique sculpts for all their models. So I have to constantly cut and repose to make everyone look like they have a slight different pose. Its very ocd.

you must hate when GW comes out with a new starter set.

 Verviedi wrote:
Oh, I've had trouble with fething up magnet polarity. My Barracuda will never be able to equip its missile racks because of that.

put a small piece of metal sheet/block/whatever between the magnets and see if that works.

 Skymate wrote:
Tale of the stupid genius #1
The common senseless genius then picks up jungle fighter which is decked out in a desert colour scheme
"Why is this guy tan?" he asks
"He's going to be in a desert themed army; you dont have to always paint the models like the picture on the box"
i answer

"You dont?" he says in shock

when it comes to my IG I never went by the norm, heck no military has one uniform type, they adjust and change when need be.

 joseph_curwen wrote:
I try not to get too salty towards other folks' paintjobs/modelling (especially since I get that enough in my dayjob as an artist) but it always makes me clench my teeth a bit when i see even a halfway decent paintjob and the base is just left untouched.
See also! I really hate those clear acrylic bases (including flight stands for most things in 25-35mm scales.)
As to my own horrors, a big one is when i'm almost finished painting something only to find a massive gap or mold line that i completely missed.

Guilty as charged i'm lazy when it comes to bases.

 ZergSmasher wrote:

Another of my (small) peeves is when players paint their stuff wrong, fluffwise. Like making their Ravenwing bikes green when they are supposed to be black. Doesn't bother me much, as at least they painted their stuff (that's a "hint hint" at me ), but I still shake my head on the inside.

This is more of a pet peeve for me when looking for things to buy, when someone says its this and this army and it looks nothing like said army.

I have quite a few... I suppose the below are the ones that get to me the most (in ascending order):

#3 - Please try to put the terrain back in its original position if it accidentally gets moved.

#2 - Please do not leave your gak (e.g. dice, books, measuring tool(s), dead models, etc.) all over the game board while we're playing.

#1 - Please do not use an army consisting of models in various states of "completion" (i.e. some bare plastic, some bare metal, varying states of completion for color scheme #1, varying states of completion for color scheme #2, varying states of completion for color scheme #3, half assembled vehicles, models missing arms/heads/torsos, etc.).

 oni wrote:
I have quite a few... I suppose the below are the ones that get to me the most (in ascending order):

#2 - Please do not leave your gak (e.g. dice, books, measuring tool(s), dead models, etc.) all over the game board while we're playing.

this is why on my game boards I build dice areas where people can keep their books extra models, roll dice and so forth:

Let's see,
Back in 3rd edition 40K there was a guy using the 3.5 Chaos codex running Iron Warriors in cookie-cutter cheese list mode, that complained how broken my Necron were. He even complained that Living Metal was broken when lascannons failed to penetrate a Monolith (Apparently rolling a 2 to pen is Living metal's fault)

Generally anyone that doesn't treat their models with respect.

Temper tantrum throwers.

Guys that accuse you of being a "rules lawyer" when you want to play correctly. (I'm not talking about ambiguous rules or not-intended weird rules combo's, just basic things).

Really weird proxy armies. I'm fine with a Wraithlord counting as a Carnifex in one-off games or to road test a unit before purchasing it. Using it for a dozen or more games is a little ridiculous though.

Really weird themed armies that are very against the background. My Little Pony marines, Hello Kitty Marines, etc. If someone did a well converted Lizardman in space army that counts as Orks, I'd be fine with that.

I really only have one 'Pet Peeve' (yeah right!) and it's unpainted figures on the table, annnnnnnd, I see it far more amongst GW players than any historical games I've seen.
Why? not a clue! it just annoys me, I would never play any game with unpainted figures, scratch that, the first time I unboxed the first Ed Space Hulk, I glued the Stealers arms on, and everyone got glued to a base, then had at it! But the whole set got painted soon after.

John

Mould lines that are impossible to get at. And super glue.... Ugh.

By John 54 wrote:
I really only have one 'Pet Peeve' (yeah right!) and it's unpainted figures on the table, annnnnnnd, I see it far more amongst GW players than any historical games I've seen.
Why? not a clue! it just annoys me, I would never play any game with unpainted figures, scratch that, the first time I unboxed the first Ed Space Hulk, I glued the Stealers arms on, and everyone got glued to a base, then had at it! But the whole set got painted soon after.

John

To piggyback on this...I'll say a pet peeve of mine is when people act insulted or think you're elitist because you expect people to have a painted army, or actually paint their miniature models...which are made to be painted.

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
People who dog someone's paint job on their models and then proceed to set up an unpainted army. I've had idiots comment loudly about how terrible a model looks with its (obvious) owner standing right next to them. Everybody is at their own level of painting ability and even Golden Demon winners have somebody better at it than them.

I've been a painter as a career and won my share of competitions and always try and find something positive to say about a model. Even the guy who had the bases glued on upside down and had scraps of his skin superglued all over the models.

On the flip side, people that think their painting the THE gak and think they are great painters of golden deamon level quality.
Me and my friend have been going every week to learn from a golden deamon winning painter. We are not the best, really we can make great tabletop armies and if we put our heads together and focus we can make something great that MIGHT win journeymen. But we have this jerk at our FLGS who thinks his single globbed on paint and gakky building is better than ours. Yeah i know it sounds arrogant, but this guy legitimatly believes it. He swindled a kid out of his $400+ FORGE WORLD World eaters army. What does he do for it? Paints it white, slathers it in agrax earthshade and says "It looks like they are covered int dirt" no, it looks like you slathered it in brown ink.
I know this sounds arrogant, But it annoys me when im giving airbrush advice to friends and this guy comes up and says "Dont listen, an airbrush is cheating at painting"

I'll admit, I have some painting hang ups. I don't like highlighting and I don't ink. I also don't like a weathered look to my vehicles. This makes most of my armies look like GW marines from the late 80's or early 90's. In some aspect, I actually like the "toy" look.

On the other hand, I'm actually pretty decent at concept and construction when it comes to conversions, and pretty good at kitbashes.


I hate it when someone tells me a conversion looks bad, and then drops down their army that looks like they used half a tube of glue per figure, or glued an ork head on a tyranid and thinks it's the coolest thing ever.

 chromedog wrote:

 Elemental wrote:
Superglue that won't stick to resin, plastic or metal--but will instantly bond human flesh.

Most of that comes down to oils ... and "oils ain't oils" when it comes to ACC adhesives.

It just so happens that some of the oils in human sweat will actively accelerate the curing of superglues (and no, they weren't specifically designed to stick skin - that's a later development and a different formula with a different molecule.)

Really?

I thought CNA glue was an accidental development off an attempt to replace stitches in medical use - in short, to glue wounds back together rather than use potentially contaminated threads.

(It wouldn't be the first time I was mistaken about such things, though.)

I've got one or two pet peeves, one being pretty common.

I hate putting my unpainted/base-coated models on the table and seeing my opponent's painted army glaring down the barrels of their guns. I'm honestly embarrassed until the dice start rolling and the game starts. I love painting, and I wish I had more time to do it.

Another one is rules that 'suddenly come out' when I'm playing someone. Usually there's an understanding that most armies (in 40k and AoS) have a decent amount of special rules. But if I'd known how many bonuses (a gak ton) Sylvaneth get in the trees, I wouldn't have charged my 40 saurus into them.

Converted plague marines with chainswords or two handing their bolter.

Plague Marines pistol grip their boltgun and hold a plagueknife in their offhand, nurgledammit! Come on guys the basic chaos box contains plenty of pistol grip arms and knives!