Well?
What models have lead to awkward, if funny as feth, moments.
(And please, I don't want 1001 references to a certain Slaanesh Soul Grinder)

Try to keep it non-descripit. Not too much detail, thank you.


Personal Favourite:

The other day at our FLGS we were looking at some Aussalt Marines that my mate was interested in selling. They had only been painted black, and a single marine had a plasma pistol, who's grid was painted white.

Me: Wow, I like the powerfist on the sergeant. And you got these only for $20?
Mate: Yeah, but there is only 1 plasma pistol in the squad. But they manage.
*points white plasma guy out*
Other Mate: Oh yeah. I bet that guy just loves to shoot his gushing, warm white glue all over the enemy...
*awkward silence*
**

We loled.

The Giant at my local GW Slanneshi with a Gimp mask on and a massive eyeball in his belly made me go oooooooh mmmmmkay...

he even had a gag ball.......Apparently the staffer who made the giant for his store Beastmen army was told that unless on games night he couldnt use it..

Well, not really funny, so much as "what the hell were you thinking!?"

A youngling thought it would be a good idea to scratchbuild/kitbash an ork trukk or two, which we thought was pretty respectable. He showed up to our open gaming day with ww2 armored cars covered in (still sharp) hobby knife blades. One of the older club members walked up behind him, took them from him, and snapped off all the blades before handing them back to him in two seperate piles and leaving him with the comment that "intelligence must have skipped a generation in your family".

Man, that was mean. The guy shouldn't have broken the kids stuff. He could have just told him how stupid that was and make him put it away.

There was a regular at the Bristol GW (back when the shop was on Broad Weir) who had a space badgers marine army, all with black and white striped paintjob, complete with a chapter master riding a giant badger. The terminators all had lightning claws and "burrowed" instead of deep striked.

Emperors Faithful wrote:Man, that was mean. The guy shouldn't have broken the kids stuff. He could have just told him how stupid that was and make him put it away.

no. he should have thrown the entire model in the dumpster and banned the kid from the store.

I'm probablly gonna get purged from dakka.

I saw on ol 4chan a Slanneshi land raider with a penis for a lascannon and female junk for doors.

Needless to say I loled.

Shadowbrand wrote:I'm probablly gonna get purged from dakka.

I saw on ol 4chan a Slanneshi land raider with a penis for a lascannon and female junk for doors.

Needless to say I loled.

You mean like shoes, makeup, and tacky accessories?

A gentleman out our FLGS decided it would be a great idea to have his Night Goblin army have all white robes and have their standards as burning crosses... needless to say we encouraged him to rethink his army.

There was a fully assembled UltraMarine Chapter Assembeled along with 3 companys of grey knights.

then this one guy brings in a army of Cow Marines!

Another Guy Brought a company of Impaient Marines!

another guy brought slaneesh daemontees.

I brought in all my models and i looked at their armies with Awee then this veteran comes in with some of the funniest Space Marines ever to live the poof patrol! His marines had marshmallow power weapons. hmmm Rainbow POWER!

let see what the colors where Green, Blue, Gray, Red, White, Brown, Yellow, Pink, and Orange....... the entire store now calls that gathering Space Marines taste the Rainbow Crusade. Best Day ever!

Then my most funniest model is a marine holding out a pistol to his head a power weapon on the ground. On his face is a tear and next to his hand is a cell phone. Wow Break-up is always the hardest too take.

A friend of mine (to whom I mean no offense) had an army of Space Marines. Mind you, these were his first models, and he didn't exactly have a chosen paint scheme yet. In essence, he ran an army of yellow red blue white marines, or as we called them, the LEGO marines (they were so brightly colored)

Some guys at GW HQ had the bright idea to have space wolves ride giant wolves!?!

We told them that it was silly: I mean do Blood Ravens ride giant Ravens? Do Space Sharks ride giant sharks?

We lol'd.

They put them in the codex anyways...

XD. well irony at its finest.

anyone got a link for this Slaanesh defiler?

I once played a game of Warhammer Fantasy against a guy who had cunningly modeled his spider riders to resembled piles of random pieces of plain pewter. Strangely enough, he somehow believed (And I believe that it was a personal superstition of his...) that they would only be successful in battle if he constantly mumbled excuses whenever he pushed their crumbly bulk across the battlefield. I targeted them with all the shooting my Wood Elves could muster, which at the time was quite a damned bit, and slaughtered them, to save him further embarrassment.

Maybe an overdone classic but I have seen bloodletters modeled with pipecleaners. They took the pipecleaners and bent them each to be a seperate letter in the word "blood".

Howlingmoon wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:Man, that was mean. The guy shouldn't have broken the kids stuff. He could have just told him how stupid that was and make him put it away.

no. he should have thrown the entire model in the dumpster and banned the kid from the store.

Um, no. If you built something stupid, I feel confident I wouldn't destroy it or ban you from the FLGS. However, if I built something deemed as "stupid" and you broke it or did anything to it, rest assured I'd punch you. Would you throw CoD terrain in the trash? I mean... Those spikes... Whew. TSA would wand you in no time if you took those NEAR an airport!

The kid had a good thought. Orks are orks and like sharp things to impale their enemies on as they drive. The fact that he even tried to model some trukks and go off the beaten path is admirable and doesn't need a tact-virgin douche to destroy them. A simple "I don't think it'd be good to play with those, sorry" would have been just fine.

Rico...

Rico wrote:

Howlingmoon wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:Man, that was mean. The guy shouldn't have broken the kids stuff. He could have just told him how stupid that was and make him put it away.

no. he should have thrown the entire model in the dumpster and banned the kid from the store.

Um, no. If you built something stupid, I feel confident I wouldn't destroy it or ban you from the FLGS. However, if I built something deemed as "stupid" and you broke it or did anything to it, rest assured I'd punch you.

And I'd take it because then I would get rich and get to ruin your life.

But please, ITG away.

Howlingmoon wrote:And I'd take it because then I would get rich and get to ruin your life.

But please, ITG away.

...and I'm still glad I don't live in the US! I can punch people in the nose all day and only get fined for it / suffer the return punch.

But back on topic: Back when we were 11 a hockey-playing friend of mine thought it would be smart to give his SM sergeant a "heavy duty helmet"... by glueing a shoulderpad to his face.

The manager of the Chicago Bunker, Mr. Duck, has a small (500ish points) army of marines. He sculpted duck bills onto the front of each helmet and painted them in duck colours, with ducks on their shoulder pads too.

Redbeard wrote:The manager of the Chicago Bunker, Mr. Duck, has a small (500ish points) army of marines. He sculpted duck bills onto the front of each helmet and painted them in duck colours, with ducks on their shoulder pads too.

what a quack!!! JKJK I think you should get pics I love seeing stuff like that. Very origonal.

A friend at my local GW (Who's name I'm not mentioning to save an eternal lifetime of embarrassment) wasn't/isn't that good at waiting for things to dry.

This resulted in his entire chaos space marine and ork army to have their arms glued on at the ankles, or somewhere on the leg due to them slipping off. He even stuck Ghazgull's claw to the model's foot and I think he still hasn't repaired them.....

Howlingmoon wrote:

Rico wrote:

Howlingmoon wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:Man, that was mean. The guy shouldn't have broken the kids stuff. He could have just told him how stupid that was and make him put it away.

no. he should have thrown the entire model in the dumpster and banned the kid from the store.

Um, no. If you built something stupid, I feel confident I wouldn't destroy it or ban you from the FLGS. However, if I built something deemed as "stupid" and you broke it or did anything to it, rest assured I'd punch you.

And I'd take it because then I would get rich and get to ruin your life.

But please, ITG away.

Nice trolling, friend.

Agamemnon2 wrote:

Howlingmoon wrote:

Rico wrote:

Howlingmoon wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:Man, that was mean. The guy shouldn't have broken the kids stuff. He could have just told him how stupid that was and make him put it away.

no. he should have thrown the entire model in the dumpster and banned the kid from the store.

Um, no. If you built something stupid, I feel confident I wouldn't destroy it or ban you from the FLGS. However, if I built something deemed as "stupid" and you broke it or did anything to it, rest assured I'd punch you.

And I'd take it because then I would get rich and get to ruin your life.

But please, ITG away.

Nice trolling, friend.

Agreed, lets stay OT shall we people?

Some of these are so funny! (And a little bit cool )

(BTW, I agree with Rico)

Asherian Command wrote:then this one guy brings in a army of Cow Marines! .

I've got a cow SM jpg on my home computer.
I'll have to post it to see if it's one of his!

Eric

I played an apocolypse game on monday. One of the other players in the game had a Digimon that looked like a dragon glued to his Land Raider. He also had a Naruto belt hanging off his pants belt. I get that some folks like anime, but geeze...

Years ago, two of the guys that started playing 40k in my area built SM and CSM armies. One spray painted his guys Olive Green and called them "the army men", the other spray painted his Tan.

I always thought it would be funny to paint up a Night Goblin army like evil Smurfs. I think someone may have actually done so a few years ago, but, can't remember for certain.

Emperors Faithful wrote:Well?
What models have lead to awkward, if funny as feth, moments.
(And please, I don't want 1001 references to a certain Slaanesh Soul Grinder)

Try to keep it non-descripit. Not too much detail, thank you.


Personal Favourite:

The other day at our FLGS we were looking at some Aussalt Marines that my mate was interested in selling. They had only been painted black, and a single marine had a plasma pistol, who's grid was painted white.

Me: Wow, I like the powerfist on the sergeant. And you got these only for $20?
Mate: Yeah, but there is only 1 plasma pistol in the squad. But they manage.
*points white plasma guy out*
Other Mate: Oh yeah. I bet that guy just loves to shoot his gushing, warm white glue all over the enemy...
*awkward silence*
**

We loled.

Honestly?


The new chaos space marines, and thier rules.

The Possessed.
The Lord Huron with that dumb lash whip.
The "Dumbing down" of the whole range.

The whole thing with the demons, and the new models besides...

The whole chaose range just made me want to go WTH?!?!?!?!

Grot 6 wrote:
The Lord Huron with that dumb lash whip.

I think you mean Lucius.



Huron has an Axe and Power Fist/Heavy Flamer.

Platuan4th wrote:

Grot 6 wrote:
The Lord Huron with that dumb lash whip.

I think you mean Lucius.



Huron has an Axe and Power Fist/Heavy Flamer.

Right... Huron with the silly combined powerclaw/ gun hand...


Pfft. Thanks for reminding me about him, as well.

Correct, though. Lucius the duffus and Huron with the hand flame job.

two reasons to me why Chaos took a dump this last year.

if you think those are the reasons that Chaos took a dump, you haven't actually read the book.

I thought this was a thread about models not rules :( and I actually like those models to an extent...

On topic: The Warlord Titan that was featured on BoLS... I got to play in a giant game against it before it was featured on BoLS and as he was putting it together my jaw just about hit the floor!

nope. the very discussion of "counts as" vs "WYSIWYG" is a rules discussion.

But this isn't WYSIWYG this is about models that have impressed/disgusted/wowed/or-otherwise-remained-in-your-memory.

Commander Endova wrote:I played an apocolypse game on monday. One of the other players in the game had a Digimon that looked like a dragon glued to his Land Raider. He also had a Naruto belt hanging off his pants belt. I get that some folks like anime, but geeze...

I had saved a small pokemon toy that came in a box of pop-tarts with intentions of chaining to to a SoB Rhino as a mutant that is ebing paraded around. Does that count?

Some guy that plays chaos daemons "made" half his models. He has what he described as a "Gorilla Glue" Greater Daemon of Nurgle (which looks just like a green blob of styrofoam with a sword glued on), two other daemons that are on Lego bases, and a couple of blobs of what I assume are chewed gum to represent nurglings.

Its really kind of... I want to say tacky?

Emperors Faithful wrote:But this isn't WYSIWYG this is about models that have impressed/disgusted/wowed/or-otherwise-remained-in-your-memory.

Staying on-topic is for suckas...

I have a half-finished lictor on my desk that I painted to look like a ladybug.

A mate of mine hasa a Buddha Giant....It's really well done too.

i have a rhino that i deliberately did lotsa battle-damage- it has a demolisher shell wedged in the front, 30 bullet holes strafed up the side, melta damage, plasma damage, barbed wire on the top, an old oak, iron and stone door insted of the rear door and a guy clambering out of the side door (which was impaled by shrapnel) wielding a sniper rifle


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p.s: i also have a vindicator with a no-smoking sign next to the smoke launchers, a no-chavs sign on the siege shield and an ork shoving a melon into the demolisher cannon.
and a guard officer using one of his men as a meatshield
and a guard autocannon team having an arm wrestle
and an ork commiting suicide
and a sentinel cutting down a tree
and a basilisk crewman pushing his crew-mate into the breach
and a terminator with "your face here" painted on the power fist
and a kamikaze ork biting a mortar round between his teeth.

and i know it's OT but i have a LOTR gondorian with a sword 3 times his size and an uruk-hai pikeman with 4 gondorians impaled on it further along the pike.

squilverine wrote:There was a regular at the Bristol GW (back when the shop was on Broad Weir) who had a space badgers marine army, all with black and white striped paintjob, complete with a chapter master riding a giant badger. The terminators all had lightning claws and "burrowed" instead of deep striked.

They've had some silly armies come through those doors remember the guy who painted Berserkers with his own blood ohhhhhh my.

BOSS_PIMPALOTZ wrote:

squilverine wrote:There was a regular at the Bristol GW (back when the shop was on Broad Weir) who had a space badgers marine army, all with black and white striped paintjob, complete with a chapter master riding a giant badger. The terminators all had lightning claws and "burrowed" instead of deep striked.

They've had some silly armies come through those doors remember the guy who painted Berserkers with his own blood ohhhhhh my.

How did he paint his nurgle stuff...

Not to mention the slaanesh...

ProtoClone wrote:Maybe an overdone classic but I have seen bloodletters modeled with pipecleaners. They took the pipecleaners and bent them each to be a seperate letter in the word "blood".

I remember that one. The Blood-letters had googly eyes, too. And the HQs were Sesame Street characters.

Buttlerthepug wrote:On topic: The Warlord Titan that was featured on BoLS... I got to play in a giant game against it before it was featured on BoLS and as he was putting it together my jaw just about hit the floor!

Got pics? I never saw it.

Here's one that did it for me:



Also... Choose one:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/272458.page


Eric

malfred wrote:

BOSS_PIMPALOTZ wrote:

squilverine wrote:There was a regular at the Bristol GW (back when the shop was on Broad Weir) who had a space badgers marine army, all with black and white striped paintjob, complete with a chapter master riding a giant badger. The terminators all had lightning claws and "burrowed" instead of deep striked.

They've had some silly armies come through those doors remember the guy who painted Berserkers with his own blood ohhhhhh my.

How did he paint his nurgle stuff...

Not to mention the slaanesh...

Thankfully he only made a Khorne army he was banned from the GW store for a while and I think they told his parents to go get him some help.He basically used to yell BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD a lot and stuff like that I think he had Aspergers or something like that.......

Ah well....another rather frightfully "bad" army I saw was a proxy blood angels army badly painted and with half assembled mini's it was a embarassment to play a real "I dont know this person" moment

I saw a guy with the Forge World Blood Thirster at my FLGS. He painted it pink, adorned it in flowers and put a kid's toy light up wand with a heart on the end for the axe with a rose for the whip. Needless to say as a Worldeater player I was both horrified and strangely intrigued at his amount of balls to do so.

CT GAMER wrote:Do Space Sharks ride giant sharks?

No but they should. And they should give them frickin' laser beams on their heads.


Anywho:


THIS IS TERRA!!!

collect them all!

Platuan4th wrote:

Grot 6 wrote:
The Lord Huron with that dumb lash whip.

I think you mean Lucius.



Huron has an Axe and Power Fist/Heavy Flamer.

I think both of them are awesome, but then again, look at my avatar

Angry marines need to be shot in the face and burned I hate them so.....

BOSS_PIMPALOTZ wrote:
Thankfully he only made a Khorne army he was banned from the GW store for a while and I think they told his parents to go get him some help.He basically used to yell BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD a lot and stuff like that I think he had Aspergers or something like that.......

Any Khorne player who doesn't yell Blood for the Blood god like a frothing madman doesn't deserve to use the army.

Period.

Terje-Tubby wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

Grot 6 wrote:
The Lord Huron with that dumb lash whip.

I think you mean Lucius.



Huron has an Axe and Power Fist/Heavy Flamer.

I think both of them are awesome, but then again, look at my avatar

I have a better idea, Why don't you just answer the question.

"Models that make you go O_O"

The other guy already tried being a tool about it and I actually let it ride. My opinion is mine, you want to change it, then bring back better Chaos models, instead of those two.

Seeing that I already gave my answer and yours is lacking....

Grot 6 wrote:

Terje-Tubby wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

Grot 6 wrote:
The Lord Huron with that dumb lash whip.

I think you mean Lucius.

Huron has an Axe and Power Fist/Heavy Flamer.

I think both of them are awesome, but then again, look at my avatar

I have a better idea, Why don't you just answer the question.

"Models that make you go O_O"

The other guy already tried being a tool about it and I actually let it ride. My opinion is mine, you want to change it, then bring back better Chaos models, instead of those two.

Seeing that I already gave my answer and yours is lacking....

Wait... didnt he just give his opinion that the models are awsome... he said nothing about you having a bad opinion... Im so confused but ok then.

As requested heres a link to pictures of the Warlord I was refering to
http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2009/03/showcase-40k-scale-warlord-titan.html

Balance wrote:

Commander Endova wrote:I played an apocolypse game on monday. One of the other players in the game had a Digimon that looked like a dragon glued to his Land Raider. He also had a Naruto belt hanging off his pants belt. I get that some folks like anime, but geeze...

I had saved a small pokemon toy that came in a box of pop-tarts with intentions of chaining to to a SoB Rhino as a mutant that is ebing paraded around. Does that count?

Well, he did it because, and I quote, "it looks badass."

However, if you made a Pikachu tortured and chained to a Rhino with Sororitas BSDM gak you would be my hero. But not in a Rule 34 way.


Sicko...

I had a rather random ork model with his gun behind his back and a severed limb on his base leaning over to look at it.

I am not famed for my funny conversions, but my mass converted armies.

There is a common sm mini on cyberspace of a sm captain painting a sm banner bearer.

He used some epic scale minis to make him look like he is painting a citadel mini.

Darth Bob wrote:

BOSS_PIMPALOTZ wrote:
Thankfully he only made a Khorne army he was banned from the GW store for a while and I think they told his parents to go get him some help.He basically used to yell BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD a lot and stuff like that I think he had Aspergers or something like that.......

Any Khorne player who doesn't yell Blood for the Blood god like a frothing madman doesn't deserve to use the army.

Period.

Yea but over and over again makes you look stupid!! Period!

One of my freinds had a Marine army painted in a Black and white colour scheme. We all thought it was pretty cool.

Then he added a bike squad. This alone should tell you why I need to stop the story here .

Maybe I'm a little dense, but I don't see why you need to stop the story there. Clearly, I'm missing whatever you're implying, but still.

Okay, so a Black and White Space Marine on a Black and White Bike...

*BLAM*

There once was a Black and White Space Marine on a Black and White bike, and being the hero type person he was, wanted to marry the Chapter Master's daughter.

So he went up to the palace and the guard naturally enquired "Who goes there?", to which he replied "I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike and I want to marry the commander's daughter".

"Not *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike?" asked the guard, with a not unconsiderable amount of awe in his voice.

"Yes, I'm *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike."

"OK, pass."

So the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike proceeded up to the commander's chamber.

"Who goes there?" Asked the commander.

"I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike and I want to marry your daughter," replied the Black and White Space Marine.

"Not *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike?"

"Yes, *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike."

"OK, if you complete three tasks, you may take my daughter's hand in marriage."

The commander told the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike. "Your first task is to slay the dragon on Xylon III."

On his way out the guard once again asked "Who goes there?", to which he replied
"I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike and I want to marry the commander's daughter."

"Not *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike?"

"Yes, *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike."

"OK, pass."

The Black and White Space Marine then proceeded with ease to kill the dragon and six months later returned with the head of the foul beast.

On his way into the palace the guard enquired "who goes there?", to which he replied
"I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike and I want to marry the commander's daughter".

"Not *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike?"

"Yes, *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike."

"OK, pass"

So the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike proceeded up to the commander's chamber.

"Who goes there?" Asked the commander.

"I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike and I want to marry your daughter" Replied the Black and White Space Marine.

"Not *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike?"

"Yes,*the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike."

"OK, if you complete three tasks, you may take my daughter's hand in marriage" The commander told the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike. "Your second task is to climb the highest peak on Desgrus Beta".

On his way out the guard once again asked "Who goes there"?", to which he replied
"I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike and I want to marry the commander's daughter".

"Not *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike?"

"Yes, *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike."

"OK, pass."

The Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike easily climbed the mountain and returned 4 years later.

On his way into the palace the guard enquired "who goes there?", to which he replied
"I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike and I want to marry the commander's daughter".

"Not *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike?"

"Yes, *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike."

"OK, pass."
So the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike proceeded up to the commander's chamber.

"Who goes there?" Asked the commander.

"I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike and I want to marry your daughter" Replied the Black and White Space Marine.

"Not *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike?"

"Yes, *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike.

"OK, if you complete three tasks, you may take my daughter's hand in marriage" The commander told the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike. "Your third and final task is to swim across the acid lake outside the palace".

On his way out the guard once again asked "Who goes there"?", to which he replied
"I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike and I want to marry the commander's daughter".

"Not *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike?"

"Yes, *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike."

"OK, pass."

Once again the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike easily completed his task and returned to the palace for the final time.
On his way into the palace the guard enquired "who goes there?", to which he replied
"I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike and I want to marry the commander's daughter".

"Not *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike?"

"Yes, *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike."

"OK, pass."
So the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike proceeded up to the commander's chamber.

"Who goes there?" Asked the commander.

"I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike and I want to marry your daughter" Replied the Black and White Space Marine.

"Not *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike?"

"Yes, *the* Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White bike, can I marry your daughter now?"

"Sure."

^^^
A telling tale, for sure.

I've told this story once, and many have saw it as waaaay over the top, but I'll tell it to the best of my memory again.

So, one night (probably 8:00) a "less than liked" guy walked in, with his Orks I believe it was, I cannot remember for the life of me. Unfortunately, he was a bit more than tipsy at the time.

So he unloaded, and wanted to play my GF in a game, with her Sisters of Battle.

So, he eventually got the charge against one of her S.O.B squads I think it was, with some boyz, and when he rolled to hit (or wound, again, no memory) he rolled ALL 6's, and it was probably 20+ dice.

So, my GF literally said "What the feth, dude?" There was no kids, so it was alright. He promptly replied "Hahaha, they're Orks! What can I say!" I believe.

My GF wasted no time in sending her foot straight to his genitals.

He fell out of the store, and walked to his car, leaving his drunkass army and dumbass dice on the table.

Nothing was filed against my GF, 'nor the store. He came in one day I was told, took his packed up army, said "Sorry' and we never saw him again.

Thats about as accurate as I remember the store.

Did I miss something, or does it seem like your GF overreacted to improbable rolling on the drunk opponent's part?

Wait, she kicked a man in the genitals for saying "Hahaha, they're Orks! What can I say!"? Why was he the dumbass?

Sorry, don't mean to derail the thread, just the 'annidote' of unwarrented assault threw me.

Karon wrote:^^^
A telling tale, for sure.

I've told this story once, and many have saw it as waaaay over the top, but I'll tell it to the best of my memory again.

So, one night (probably 8:00) a "less than liked" guy walked in, with his Orks I believe it was, I cannot remember for the life of me. Unfortunately, he was a bit more than tipsy at the time.

So he unloaded, and wanted to play my GF in a game, with her Sisters of Battle.

So, he eventually got the charge against one of her S.O.B squads I think it was, with some boyz, and when he rolled to hit (or wound, again, no memory) he rolled ALL 6's, and it was probably 20+ dice.

So, my GF literally said "What the feth, dude?" There was no kids, so it was alright. He promptly replied "Hahaha, they're Orks! What can I say!" I believe.

My GF wasted no time in sending her foot straight to his genitals.

He fell out of the store, and walked to his car, leaving his drunkass army and dumbass dice on the table.

Nothing was filed against my GF, 'nor the store. He came in one day I was told, took his packed up army, said "Sorry' and we never saw him again.

Thats about as accurate as I remember the store.

1. I am sure this didn't happen, its just too stupid.
2. If true I really really hope you were banned from the store. It would be wrong and inappropriate for me to say "God you just suck so much it makes my spleen itch," here I am sure, so I won't.

Eh?

Besides, that story doesn't even fit in with the topic. That would be in 'Awkward Gaming Moments' or something.

He means loaded dice. Were it really a lucky occurence the Ork player would likely have stood there in a stunned silence and not gloated like he did. Things with such an astronomical chance like that aren't usually accompanied by a smug look. Plus there's probably more info we're missing.

Models that have made you go 0_0.

Not moments, not cheats, not cute puppy displays. Models.

My friend who plays IG wanted to make a special model for the tank commander guy (forget his name). So now he has a lemun russ with a guy popped out of the hatch. His left arm is a heavy bolter and his right is a giant sentinel chainsaw.

He also has a guardsman that has no arms, but lasguns attached to his shoulders. That soldier is always manning a heavy weapon next to a guy pointing at the enemy with a shovel.

The reason i play Fists:

There once was a Black and White Space Marine on a Black and White bike, and being the hero type person he was, wanted to marry the Chapter Master's daughter...

Why??? I just wasted 10 minutes of my life

I just found this on eBay. It's quite something, if you like this "custom built dinosaur" slann mage it's currently Buy it Now for £12 + £2 p&p.

Gandair wrote:He means loaded dice. Were it really a lucky occurence the Ork player would likely have stood there in a stunned silence and not gloated like he did. Things with such an astronomical chance like that aren't usually accompanied by a smug look. Plus there's probably more info we're missing.

Though I know I am pulling the thread off-topic, I feel I need to explain more.

Yeah, by loaded dice, I mean "LOADED DICE" He gloated about it, and stuck in a few racial swears in there aswell before she took the liberty for her foot to meet his crotch. I don't feel like it was the correct thing to do, but hell, I know my GF well enough to know that telling her off for doing it would have been the worst thing I could have done.

I didn't mention how much of an actual ass this guy was just in the store sober. He cheated regularly when nobody was really around, and is about the highest level of TFG you could possibly get.

I apologize for my distraction to this thread.

Karon wrote:Yeah, by loaded dice, I mean "LOADED DICE" He gloated about it, and stuck in a few racial swears in there aswell before she took the liberty for her foot to meet his crotch.

Yeah, see, mentioning that the dice were loaded is the sort of information that would have made the original story make more sense, and seem less like your GF is prone to random acts of violence just because her opponent makes a lucky roll...

Wouldn't have made it any more on-topic for the thread, though.

I apologize, I was sure to mention loaded dice, but things escape me at the worst times more often then I would like :/.

Anyways, I owe this thread a contribution.

For me, the one model I've always hated seeing on the table is Pedro Kantor ( I see someone above me likes him). His Storm Bolter always seems to do something amazing every game, such as wound Marneus Calgar 4 times, and him failing all his 2+ saves to it.

I mean, c'mon.

This guy at a GW store, primed his lictor white.

Then used all the wash colors in some funky combo for his 'Skittles' camo lictor.........

Karon wrote:I apologize, I was sure to mention loaded dice, but things escape me at the worst times more often then I would like :/.

I thought it was obvious what the implication was. No one rolls 20 sixes, the odds on that happening are astronomical, 10 dice is 6 million to one (6 to the power 10, I can't use superscript here), so it's somewhat unlikely. 20 dice is a staggering 365 trillion to one against if I counted the zeros correctly, not even the emperor himself could do that.

RogueMarket wrote:
This guy at a GW store, primed his lictor white.

Then used all the wash colors in some funky combo for his 'Skittles' camo lictor.........

Sounds awesome. Any pics?

Howard A Treesong wrote:

Karon wrote:I apologize, I was sure to mention loaded dice, but things escape me at the worst times more often then I would like :/.

I thought it was obvious what the implication was. No one rolls 20 sixes, the odds on that happening are astronomical, 10 dice is 6 million to one (6 to the power 10, I can't use superscript here), so it's somewhat unlikely. 20 dice is a staggering 365 trillion to one against if I counted the zeros correctly, not even the emperor himself could do that.

Well, maybe once in a while. Remember, he took lessons from Chuck Norris.

TempusCorvus wrote:Maybe I'm a little dense, but I don't see why you need to stop the story there. Clearly, I'm missing whatever you're implying, but still.

Ask not of the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike, for you may just recieve...

Mekboy wrote:

TempusCorvus wrote:Maybe I'm a little dense, but I don't see why you need to stop the story there. Clearly, I'm missing whatever you're implying, but still.

Ask not of the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike, for you may just recieve...

You noticed that it's already been posted, right...?

To be honest, I never really understood why that joke got so much hype. The original joke (which was about a black and white knight) was only vaguely amusing, and then only if you're mused by jokes that stretch on forever just to slap you in the forehead at the end... changing it to be about a space marine makes no sense at all, and (for me, at least) kills any amusement value it originally had.

So it's not funny, it doesn't make any sense, and yet for many years was this huge in-joke on so many forums. Go figure.

Which is why it's so funny.

Emperors Faithful wrote:Which is why it's so stupid.

Fixed that for ya, EF.

Howard A Treesong wrote:I just found this on eBay. It's quite something, if you like this "custom built dinosaur" slann mage it's currently Buy it Now for £12 + £2 p&p.

Strangely enough, I bought a model of that exact same triceratops when I was a little kid. It had a different houda though.

Also, what exactly is a "model that makes you go 0_0"?

What does that emoticon even represent? Kind of an unclear thread in my opinion.

Just reading through, and...

CT GAMER wrote:Some guys at GW HQ had the bright idea to have space wolves ride giant wolves!?!

We told them that it was silly: I mean do Blood Ravens ride giant Ravens? Do Space Sharks ride giant sharks?

We lol'd.

They put them in the codex anyways...

If Space Sharks did ride giant sharks, I would totally play them.

Kanluwen wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:Which is why it's so stupid.

Fixed that for ya, EF.

Thanks for that.

@Brother SRM: I think 0_0 = Wow. In many different ways. From sickening to amzingly awesome. Like the Hornet Marines.



Or this.

I dunno about awkward / funny, but I did a double-take when I saw the Hasslefree Artemis resin.

I don't know if it's the prison nurse makeup, the dynamic bosom, the greenstuff armpit hair or the anatomically correct squig pom pom.....but the following models make me farking lol everytime;

http://coolminiornot.com/18049

http://coolminiornot.com/139906

Ew.

DiscoVader wrote:Just reading through, and...

CT GAMER wrote:Some guys at GW HQ had the bright idea to have space wolves ride giant wolves!?!

We told them that it was silly: I mean do Blood Ravens ride giant Ravens? Do Space Sharks ride giant sharks?

We lol'd.

They put them in the codex anyways...

If Space Sharks did ride giant sharks, I would totally play them.

only if they were flying sharks with lasers

The rumours say that lasers may be a viable option in their chosen wargear.

AgeOfEgos wrote:I don't know if it's the prison nurse makeup, the dynamic bosom, the greenstuff armpit hair or the anatomically correct squig pom pom.....but the following models make me farking lol everytime;

http://coolminiornot.com/18049

http://coolminiornot.com/139906

Oh my God.

Why would you even click on those, given the text descriptions above?

ProtoClone wrote:Maybe an overdone classic but I have seen bloodletters modeled with pipecleaners. They took the pipecleaners and bent them each to be a seperate letter in the word "blood".

Hey, guess what pic I found today?

It's not an individual model...but a damn lot of them, here's the link http://media.photobucket.com/image/Crazy%2040k%20pic/Dannage/Leviathan/volpone175.jpg

That's pretty cool, because it's painted!

Comment says it all...

Whats Elmo.dib
not a virus rigiht? o_O

The .dib extension looks like some sort of oddball image format...

JohnHwangDD wrote:Why would you even click on those, given the text descriptions above?

Because it is absolutely, positively, fething funny.

On topic: GW's Dark Eldar Mandrakes

Ultra mortalitas wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:Why would you even click on those, given the text descriptions above?

Because it is absolutely, positively, fething funny.

On topic: GW's Dark Eldar Mandrakes

OMG....mandrakes....

Flashback to like 97 or 98 when the DE line was brand new and we didnt have much internet presence to berate figs like we do now. And I pre-ordered some mandrakes because they sounded cool fluff wise- like eldar ninjas.

So, the day comes when they arrive and me and my gamer buds go down to the store- and I get my long awaited mandrakes. Now- at this time I was pretty new to 40k- I didnt know the sculptors by name or who Jervis or Andy chambers was etc etc.

So the first thing I say when I see the mandrake models 'Wow...these suck....its like they hired somebody with one hand to sculpt them...'

The store went silent, and like 12 nerd heads in unison all slowly pivoted to stare at me like I was the biggest reject ever. My freind Mark 'Thats really messed up' and then no one would talk to me.

I was clueless, I was like- no- they really do suck that bad! Look at them!!

So, then like two months later I see the article in a WD with the Perry Brothers detailing the cannon accident and how he lost his hand but was still sculpting- and suddenly that whole awkward incident made alot more sense.

So- for one handed sculpts Mandrakes are pretty awesome... anybody want some? ^_^

Muahahahaha... fear me now, mere mortals!


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note: on the right is a chaos titan of the same size.

One that made me stare at it for a little while and wonder where i had seen it before. This guy was playing daemons and brought a soul grinder well it was different but i remember seeing it before and i thought to myself holy crap "Toy Story" the doll that had spider legs underneath its head. Couldnt look anymore like unless he wanted Disney after him. I wish i had taken a picture of it.

Mistress of minis wrote:

Ultra mortalitas wrote:GW's Dark Eldar Mandrakes

So the first thing I say when I see the mandrake models 'Wow...these suck....its like they hired somebody with one hand to sculpt them...'

So, then like two months later I see the article in a WD with the Perry Brothers detailing the cannon accident and how he lost his hand but was still sculpting- and suddenly that whole awkward incident made alot more sense.

So- for one handed sculpts Mandrakes are pretty awesome... anybody want some? ^_^

Thanks, tho I'm gonna pass on that offer.

IMO, it's wierd (and foolish) that a sculptor would involve in any sort of hobby that could destroy his livelihood. I mean, you don't have John Holmes playing with his pecker in a blender...

JohnHwangDD wrote:

Mistress of minis wrote:

Ultra mortalitas wrote:GW's Dark Eldar Mandrakes

So the first thing I say when I see the mandrake models 'Wow...these suck....its like they hired somebody with one hand to sculpt them...'

So, then like two months later I see the article in a WD with the Perry Brothers detailing the cannon accident and how he lost his hand but was still sculpting- and suddenly that whole awkward incident made alot more sense.

So- for one handed sculpts Mandrakes are pretty awesome... anybody want some? ^_^

Thanks, tho I'm gonna pass on that offer.

IMO, it's wierd (and foolish) that a sculptor would involve in any sort of hobby that could destroy his livelihood. I mean, you don't have John Holmes playing with his pecker in a blender...

Do you work to live,

or live to work?

Do what you love to do when you can, ya never know when you might not be able to. It was just an accident, and a pretty rare one. He probably had a greater risk of losing that arms driving to work than in a cannon accident.

Disclaimer-pecker+blender is a bad idea even if its not your blender. Or pecker.

Given that he lost his arm playing with the cannon, and he and his brother still have 3 arms between them driving to work, I'd have to say that no, the risk of losing an arm driving to work is much less.

JohnHwangDD wrote:Given that he lost his arm playing with the cannon, and he and his brother still have 3 arms between them driving to work, I'd have to say that no, the risk of losing an arm driving to work is much less.

You're right there. Anyways GW should really update the codex and models for DE, i seriously could not believe that DE still only have their 2nd edition codex and old models.

Its like they want to get rid of them without angering people with DE armies. It annoys me a lot, and i'm not a fan

Mistress of minis: I would hate to be in your shoes, what were the odds of that happening?

GundamMerc: Someone should make a motivational with that image, that would be funny

JohnHwangDD wrote:Given that he lost his arm playing with the cannon, and he and his brother still have 3 arms between them driving to work, I'd have to say that no, the risk of losing an arm driving to work is much less.

So clever. Maybe look up the % of lost arms/cannon vs auto accidents.

All things considered, even with a mechanical hand he still sculpts better than you or I. He didnt let the accident stop him from doing what he enjoys.

Ah yes, but how many people play with cannon compared to driving to work?

On topic, my friend and I were in the local GW buying paint and I got talking to a redshirt about the imminent nids releases. He said he had a Trygon in store and went to get it. When the guy brought it out it looked terrible. Gappy, badly glued and mangled paint job. Keeping a straight face while telling him it looked good was hard.

@M/M: if we compare odds, the number of arms lost to driving is negligible - there are millions of people who get in their cars every day, and none of them lose their arms.

But the handful of times people play with cannon? yeah, somebody loses an eye (or arm).

And as for him sculpting better than me? If I had decided I wanted to be a GW sculptor as my profession, I have no doubt I'd be a better one than him.

Ultra mortalitas wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:Given that he lost his arm playing with the cannon, and he and his brother still have 3 arms between them driving to work, I'd have to say that no, the risk of losing an arm driving to work is much less.

You're right there. Anyways GW should really update the codex and models for DE, i seriously could not believe that DE still only have their 2nd edition codex and old models.

I'm still amazed by the quality of the Perry bros.' work. With 3 hands between them they sculpt better than almost anybody I can think of.

And that's 3rd edition DE models and codex! They weren't around in 2nd. Of course I do have models from 2nd edition that are much better sculpts than anything found in the DE range...

JohnHwangDD wrote:@M/M: if we compare odds, the number of arms lost to driving is negligible - there are millions of people who get in their cars every day, and none of them lose their arms.

But the handful of times people play with cannon? yeah, somebody loses an eye (or arm).

And as for him sculpting better than me? If I had decided I wanted to be a GW sculptor as my profession, I have no doubt I'd be a better one than him.

Last I checked-looking at all the work they did on the LoTR line, I dont think Michael ruined his 'professions as a GW sculptor' . The Perry's are way into historical arms and armor, its always shown in thier sculpting, as well as thier other non GW work.

And until you are a better sculptor- you're still just making half arsed jibes at a fellow who not only does what he loves- he does it well and over came adversity to keep doing it.

So, you'll spin this around into some passive aggressive retort you think is witty Im sure. But it doesnt really matter- in the end you're trying to mock a guy that lost part of his arm in an accident. You're questioning his judgment for having a hobby with dangerous elements. But the facts are still present that hes successful at what hes doing and enjoys it. So your opinion of 'endangering his livelihood' are sort of hollow.

I once saw a BA Missile launcher with the missle in it which wasn't painted silver, but red. I told him it needed a couple of black hoops around it and Crayola written on it. Feel the wrath of the Crayon Launcher!

@M/M: I'm very good at those things I choose to do. I don't want to be a minis sculptor because I don't have any passion for it. Whether or not I'm a better sculptor is simply meaningless dig by you at me, "passive-aggressive" or not. If you want to throw stones, how about you step out of that glass house, first?

And point in fact, he chose a hobby that endangered his livelihood. That shows questionable judgment, regardless of how lucky he is to still be alive, and still have a hand to use.

JohnHwangDD wrote:And point in fact, he chose a hobby that endangered his livelihood.

Hm. Accidents happen. You can screw up your capabilities to work doing pretty much anything if you get unlucky enough. He didn't deserve it any more than a guy who loses an eye playing pub darts.

JohnHwangDD wrote:@M/M: I'm very good at those things I choose to do. I don't want to be a minis sculptor because I don't have any passion for it. Whether or not I'm a better sculptor is simply meaningless dig by you at me, "passive-aggressive" or not. If you want to throw stones, how about you step out of that glass house, first?

And point in fact, he chose a hobby that endangered his livelihood. That shows questionable judgment, regardless of how lucky he is to still be alive, and still have a hand to use.

Its not a meaningless dig- you said you could do it better, but you cant or arent, hence, hollow. And Im not throwing stones, nor do I live in a glass house- I think Im stating my intent quite clearly, although I could use smaller words if necessary.

I have no doubt you are good at things you choose, but belittling someone elses achievements by stating you could do it better, but you dont want to- I think thats the sort of thing anyone could say about anything. And its flawed logic, you have no clue if you'd be as good of a sculptor because you've never done it- you might be technically proficient but lack the art or vice versa. So, I'll agree you might be as good a sculptor, but you waste too much time arguing online :p


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Cheese Elemental wrote:

AgeOfEgos wrote:I don't know if it's the prison nurse makeup, the dynamic bosom, the greenstuff armpit hair or the anatomically correct squig pom pom.....but the following models make me farking lol everytime;

http://coolminiornot.com/18049

http://coolminiornot.com/139906

Oh my God.

And I think we now see why GW decided to make Orks the big green eunuchs of the galaxy....

ok people lets stop arguing and get back on subject

now, on topic this:

Orksorksorksorksor-WTF?

Emperors Faithful wrote:Orksorksorksorksor-WTF?

Dont you just love the stompa head

I can just imagine a gretchin inside screaming

DIS. IS. MY. ANGRY FACE!!!1!!

Emperors Faithful wrote:I can just imagine a gretchin inside screaming

DIS. IS. MY. ANGRY FACE!!!1!!

true. anyways on topic:

FEAR DA BUNNY FEX!

JohnHwangDD wrote:@M/M: I'm very good at those things I choose to do. I don't want to be a minis sculptor because I don't have any passion for it. Whether or not I'm a better sculptor is simply meaningless dig by you at me, "passive-aggressive" or not. If you want to throw stones, how about you step out of that glass house, first?

And point in fact, he chose a hobby that endangered his livelihood. That shows questionable judgment, regardless of how lucky he is to still be alive, and still have a hand to use.

Most livelihoods are endangered by the loss of a hand, I work in a laboratory and would find it pretty hard going with only one arm. Does that mean I should avoid any hobby or activity that has the chance of loosing me an arm even by a freak accident? You'd never go out of the house if you thought like this. It wasn't like he was injured in some extreme sport, it was a historical reinactment event that went wrong. Jeeze, I'm quite suprised by how judgemental some people are being.

Run away, Run AWAY!!!

@HAT: millions of people show you can go outside without losing an arm or hand every single day. Those odds are low.

Blowing off a hand playing with amateur-hour explosives? Comparing with fireworks "accidents", it's no surprise.

JohnHwangDD wrote:@HAT: millions of people show you can go outside without losing an arm or hand every single day. Those odds are low.

Blowing off a hand playing with amateur-hour explosives? Comparing with fireworks "accidents", it's no surprise.

Accidents happen to professionals too. You have no idea as to thier level of proficiency- you simply assume amateur because something bad happened. Again, thats flawed logic.


On topic- I saw a conversion of the LoTR Balrog that had clear resin wings and fiber optic inlays that were lighted, so it sparkled/flickered liek it was on fire. I cant seem to find any links to it though- anyone have its youtube link still?

beeek.

my favourite would have to be my own model (put on when it's painted) which I entered in a small-scale conversion type thing.

a furiso dreadnought ripping apart an eldar

@M/M: I make no such assumption, although you're making an ass of yourself by assuming I'm assuming.

I do know that these aren't professional re-enactor blackpowder specialists out there. Remember - professional means that they actually do it for a living. That's why it's a hobby.

The other thing is that, while pros do have accidents, the simple fact of doing things more times means that they get better and *smarter* at it. That's why I'm OK to ride the ride at Disneyland, running 365 days/yr (risking a freak accident), instead of the traveling holiday carny ride run misc weekends each month (with much more likely accidents to occur).

Yes, thats right, argue, ARGUE! It will totally make up for your lack of life outside the internet! Keep it up!

alexwars1 wrote:Yes, thats right, argue, ARGUE! It will totally make up for your lack of life outside the internet! Keep it up!

Or we could, you know, lay off the arguing over whether or not miniature designers are entitled to have other hobbies and return to the actual topic...

The entire beastmen army of how terrible they are!

insaniak wrote:

alexwars1 wrote:Yes, thats right, argue, ARGUE! It will totally make up for your lack of life outside the internet! Keep it up!

Or we could, you know, lay off the arguing over whether or not miniature designers are entitled to have other hobbies and return to the actual topic...

or we could, you know, let them argue and not do anything. that could be fun.

children of filth wrote:

insaniak wrote:

alexwars1 wrote:Yes, thats right, argue, ARGUE! It will totally make up for your lack of life outside the internet! Keep it up!

Or we could, you know, lay off the arguing over whether or not miniature designers are entitled to have other hobbies and return to the actual topic...

or we could, you know, let them argue and not do anything. that could be fun.

no, not really. it gets Old really quick and usually just sidetracks the whole thread.....

OT, i have to vote for the beastmen.

This model made me go 0_0 in a good way.

They have a license for that Predator model, right?

Because there's no way it could be anything but.

Darth Bob wrote:

This model made me go 0_0 in a good way.

Man, that makes me want to paint up some Catachans...and play a specialized scenario for the "Hurn".

DEff Dredd and Killa Kans. Now in plastic and precisely 10041% more awesome and stompy than before!

Orkestra wrote:They have a license for that Predator model, right?

Because there's no way it could be anything but.

Nope because it's not a Predator model. It's a "Hurn".

Darth Bob wrote:

Orkestra wrote:They have a license for that Predator model, right?

Because there's no way it could be anything but.

Nope because it's not a Predator model. It's a "Hurn".

Riiight...

And if you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you.
____

Still, nice Predator model!

JohnHwangDD wrote:

Darth Bob wrote:

Orkestra wrote:They have a license for that Predator model, right?

Because there's no way it could be anything but.

Nope because it's not a Predator model. It's a "Hurn".

Riiight...

And if you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you.
____

Still, nice Predator model!

Yep, I believe it's a Hurn and not a Predator. After all, that's what the seller and creator of the model says it is, so that's what it is.

Just like this Balor is absolutely not a Balrog!


Looks just like a Balrog, doens't it. And yet a slight variation in the name means it's not, so Tolkein and co. can suck it!

Actually, no it doesn't. A Balrog is a flamey rocky monster, whereas the Balor is a classic fleshy demon.

See?




Non-infringing.


There are multiple possible interpretations of "a bat-winged demon with a sword of flame", and the differences between the two are why the Balor isn't a Balrog.

Of course, it's a Hurn. The other alien who has a mouth with mandibles attached to flaps that open out, a bald top of the head, dreadlocks, scattered pieces of armour, wrist blades with two blades per wrist, a telescoping spear weapon, an input panel on the lower arm and a shoulder mounted cannon. Who also likes collecting skulls.

WIN!
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I approve of this message!

JohnHwangDD wrote:Actually, no it doesn't. A Balrog is a flamey rocky monster, whereas the Balor is a classic fleshy demon.

See?




Non-infringing.


There are multiple possible interpretations of "a bat-winged demon with a sword of flame", and the differences between the two are why the Balor isn't a Balrog.

This makes me sad. Have you even read the books? The Balrog was never described as a "flamey rocky monster" it was described as a demon of shadow and flame, wielding a flaming whip and sword. The Balrog that Peter Jackson did is not the Balrog that Tolkein described. This rendition of the Balrog came out long after the inception of the Balor.
Also, it's a well known fact that the Balor of dungeons and dragons was originally called a Balrog; but when Tolkein and Co. heard about it they told them to change it. So they took the easy way out and rather than redesigning the creature, they just changed the name to Balor. Does it infringe? No, it does not. Is it an obvious ripoff of the Balrog, of course it is.


You guys seem to think that I am trying to deny that this model is an obvious Predator ripoff. I'm not daft, of course it is. My only point is that 20th Century Fox can't do jack about it because Heresy Miniatures hasn't recognized it as a property of 20th Century Fox.

If they had released this model as "Predator Headtaker" then Fox would have every right to jump all over them because they have rights to the term "Predator".

Orkestra wrote:Of course, it's a Hurn. The other alien who has a mouth with mandibles attached to flaps that open out, a bald top of the head, dreadlocks, scattered pieces of armour, wrist blades with two blades per wrist, a telescoping spear weapon, an input panel on the lower arm and a shoulder mounted cannon. Who also likes collecting skulls.

You know what the great thing is? That's exactly what Heresy can say. All they have to do is not mention the "P" word and they're safe.

Fair enough.

And really, I think that overall I prefer having what looks like a cool... 'Hurn'... rather than no 'Hurn' at all. I was just a little bit shocked at how exact of a replica it was.

Maybe I should take the foot out of my mouth and go buy a bunch to give to my friends (we're huge Alien/Predator/AVP fans. We regularly get together and watch all 8 movies (Alien, Predator, Aliens, AVP, Aliens III, Predator 2, Alien Resurrection, AVP:R) in a row)


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In any case, I'm proud to say that that model is one ugly motherfether.

Orkestra wrote:Fair enough.

And really, I think that overall I prefer having what looks like a cool... 'Hurn'... rather than no 'Hurn' at all. I was just a little bit shocked at how exact of a replica it was.

Maybe I should take the foot out of my mouth and go buy a bunch to give to my friends (we're huge Alien/Predator/AVP fans. We regularly get together and watch all 8 movies (Alien, Predator, Aliens, AVP, Aliens III, Predator 2, Alien Resurrection, AVP:R) in a row)


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In any case, I'm proud to say that that model is one ugly motherfether.

I do that once a month too! Good to see theres other fans of the series out there! I usually watch them in Canon order though (Predator, Predator 2, AVP, AVPR, ALIEN, ALIENS, ALIEN3, ALIEN:RESURRECTION). Thought sometimes I skip A:R...I bloody hate where they took the series after the third installment. They should have ended the Ripley storyline after the 3rd, and took the series in a different direction, rather than continuing with Ripley.

Here's to hoping Predators and the Alien prequel are any good (my hopes are high for the Alien prequel, but with the director of "Spy Kids" doing Predators...I don't know).

Darth Bob wrote:Here's to hoping Predators and the Alien prequel are any good (my hopes are high for the Alien prequel, but with the director of "Spy Kids" doing Predators...I don't know).

What? argh!

And with the hurn, looks like someone is a cheap bastard who likes to steal the creative works of other people and change the name so they dont get sued it is w....

See, the problem that I have with that order is that, for me, it just doesn't work to consider the movies actually involved in each other's storylines. They're great series on their own, and AVP is bad-ass, but that's why it exists - to be cool, not to further the story. Hence why we watch them in the order we do.

When AVP comes out we'll have to play online.

Orkestra wrote:
When AVP comes out we'll have to play online.

Sounds awesome! 7 Days to go!

If they were gonna get sued, they would have been already. Let's see...

You've got Dwarf Va'durr

Complete with comment of "I wonder why everyone paints him black"

The trio of Captain Nathan, Mechanic Haylee, and Rev Shepard




Even the arch rivals Dr Hugh and Dr Masterson

The new Killa Kans make me go hiiiiiiiigh by just looking at them

Darth Bob wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:Actually, no it doesn't. A Balrog is a flamey rocky monster, whereas the Balor is a classic fleshy demon.

Non-infringing.

There are multiple possible interpretations of "a bat-winged demon with a sword of flame", and the differences between the two are why the Balor isn't a Balrog.

Have you even read the books? The Balrog was never described as a "flamey rocky monster"

This rendition of the Balrog came out long after the inception of the Balor.

Also, it's a well known fact that the Balor of dungeons and dragons was originally called a Balrog; but when Tolkein and Co. heard about it they told them to change it. So they took the easy way out and rather than redesigning the creature, they just changed the name to Balor. Does it infringe? No,

You guys seem to think that I am trying to deny that this model is an obvious Predator ripoff. I'm not daft, of course it is. My only point is that 20th Century Fox can't do jack about it because Heresy Miniatures hasn't recognized it as a property of 20th Century Fox.

If they had released this model as "Predator Headtaker" then Fox would have every right to jump all over them because they have rights to the term "Predator".

Yes I've read the books. Similarion, too. However, the point you're oblivious to is that translating a text description into sculpture is pretty much guaranteed to be non-infringing as long as you don't steal the copyrighted name. I can sculpt a million demons and NONE of them will ever infringe Tolkein as long as I refrain from calling any of them a "Balrog".

Now copying one visual design, that's IP infringement. Which is why the Jackson Balrog *must* look different from the D&D Balor.

D&D stealing JRRT's "Balrpg" is clear IP infringement, and a slam dunk for JRRT, so of course DnD changes.

You seem to think that Fox can only sue over named items. That is false. If it is a true knock-off, with no new features (as here), then Fox would easily win. It's why Heresy is cagey about "events outside their control". Heresy knows they're infringing, and will have to shut down as soon as Fox gets word. Personally, I hope Fox sues Heresy for every penny collected.

JohnHwangDD wrote:

Darth Bob wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:Actually, no it doesn't. A Balrog is a flamey rocky monster, whereas the Balor is a classic fleshy demon.

Non-infringing.

There are multiple possible interpretations of "a bat-winged demon with a sword of flame", and the differences between the two are why the Balor isn't a Balrog.

Have you even read the books? The Balrog was never described as a "flamey rocky monster"

This rendition of the Balrog came out long after the inception of the Balor.

Also, it's a well known fact that the Balor of dungeons and dragons was originally called a Balrog; but when Tolkein and Co. heard about it they told them to change it. So they took the easy way out and rather than redesigning the creature, they just changed the name to Balor. Does it infringe? No,

You guys seem to think that I am trying to deny that this model is an obvious Predator ripoff. I'm not daft, of course it is. My only point is that 20th Century Fox can't do jack about it because Heresy Miniatures hasn't recognized it as a property of 20th Century Fox.

If they had released this model as "Predator Headtaker" then Fox would have every right to jump all over them because they have rights to the term "Predator".

Yes I've read the books. Similarion, too. However, the point you're oblivious to is that translating a text description into sculpture is pretty much guaranteed to be non-infringing as long as you don't steal the copyrighted name. I can sculpt a million demons and NONE of them will ever infringe Tolkein as long as I refrain from calling any of them a "Balrog".

Now copying one visual design, that's IP infringement. Which is why the Jackson Balrog *must* look different from the D&D Balor.

D&D stealing JRRT's "Balrpg" is clear IP infringement, and a slam dunk for JRRT, so of course DnD changes.

You seem to think that Fox can only sue over named items. That is false. If it is a true knock-off, with no new features (as here), then Fox would easily win. It's why Heresy is cagey about "events outside their control". Heresy knows they're infringing, and will have to shut down as soon as Fox gets word. Personally, I hope Fox sues Heresy for every penny collected.

People have been using the likeness of things from pop culture without consent in everything from miniatures, to TV shows, to comics, etc, etc, etc. Did you see Planet 51? The "dog" in that was obviously modelled after the Alien (hell its name was Ripley), but you didn't see them getting "sued for every penny that film made." I recall there was even an old Looney Toons episode that featured the Alien and Predator.

Going back to D&D, how about these (obviously not D&D) miniatures from Reaper:

The not-Glabrezu

The not-Demogorgon

The not-Beholder

And my personal favorite, the not-Orcus

Believe you me, people have been doing technically illegal cameos and replications of other peoples' IP for years without suffering the dreaded C&D, and to think that one company (especially considering how small scale this one is) is going to get Fox's banhammer from this one case, is incredibly wishful thinking. I will stand by my view that, while their merits are questionable, it's not going to happen. But I suppose you can dream.

Darth Bob wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:Actually, no it doesn't. A Balrog is a flamey rocky monster, whereas the Balor is a classic fleshy demon.

See?




Non-infringing.


There are multiple possible interpretations of "a bat-winged demon with a sword of flame", and the differences between the two are why the Balor isn't a Balrog.

This makes me sad. Have you even read the books? The Balrog was never described as a "flamey rocky monster" it was described as a demon of shadow and flame, wielding a flaming whip and sword. The Balrog that Peter Jackson did is not the Balrog that Tolkein described. This rendition of the Balrog came out long after the inception of the Balor.

Really? Do you know that Tolkien was giving a physical description when he describes it as a demon of shadow and flame? Or was he describing it's personality, describing how it was an evil force? Don't pretend to know what an author means by his words, for that is a fallacy. You may have an opinion as to what he is describing, but you cannot go ahead and use that as a fact.

@Bob: Whether or not someone gets a C&D or sued doesn't mean that they didn't infringe.

GundamMerc wrote:

Darth Bob wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:Actually, no it doesn't. A Balrog is a flamey rocky monster, whereas the Balor is a classic fleshy demon.

See?




Non-infringing.


There are multiple possible interpretations of "a bat-winged demon with a sword of flame", and the differences between the two are why the Balor isn't a Balrog.

This makes me sad. Have you even read the books? The Balrog was never described as a "flamey rocky monster" it was described as a demon of shadow and flame, wielding a flaming whip and sword. The Balrog that Peter Jackson did is not the Balrog that Tolkein described. This rendition of the Balrog came out long after the inception of the Balor.

Really? Do you know that Tolkien was giving a physical description when he describes it as a demon of shadow and flame? Or was he describing it's personality, describing how it was an evil force? Don't pretend to know what an author means by his words, for that is a fallacy. You may have an opinion as to what he is describing, but you cannot go ahead and use that as a fact.

Let me make a suggestion: before taking up a hostile, flamboyant, and flaming attitude against a complete stranger, perhaps it would be better to look at the context of what I wrote. JohnHwangDD said that the Balrog was a "flamey rocky monster", I simply brought up the description from the book to show that the original vision of the Balrog was not a "flamey rocky monster". What it was exactly, I can't be positive, and I never claimed to, but apparently it was close enough to the Balor's look that Tolkein felt the need to sue D&D.

Unlike what you seem to think, I told him what the Balrog wasn't described as, not what it was.

Personally, I have always viewed the Balrog as looking similar to the Balor, and I think you'll find that most people who've read the books will take the Balrog as a physical manifestation since Gandalf threw him from the top of Zirakzigal and the Balrog "broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin." To me, only a physical being could break a mountain or be physically fought.

JohnHwangDD wrote:@Bob: Whether or not someone gets a C&D or sued doesn't mean that they didn't infringe.

I agree, and I concede to this point.

However, regardless of the fact that he is infringing, thinking that he, out of all the companies that infringe on Fox and other companies' IP, will suffer a lawsuit for this is very much wishful thinking.

Darth Bob wrote:JohnHwangDD said that the Balrog was a "flamey rocky monster",

it was close enough to the Balor's look that Tolkein felt the need to sue D&D.

To clarify, I was describing how the GW model looked, not quoting from JRRT.

No, JRRT sued because DnD used the copyrighted "Balrog" *name* - the appearance was irrelevant.

In the Hersey DnD examples, the issue is that the models are copying the illustrations in the DnD MM, not basing off the DnD text descriptions.

From what I recall the Balrog is hardly described at all. Whether it even has wings is open to interpretation.

There are two pertinent quotes in the book...

"His enemy halted again, facing him, and the shadow about it reached out like two vast wings."

and later...

"…suddenly it drew itself up to a great height, and its wings were spread from wall to wall…"

You can take it either way, but the earlier quote establishes the wings as being figurative of it's shadow of evil, and the later quote is just referencing this when it is seemingly able to control it's shadow. Or possibly it can shapeshift and the wings solidify as from being merely dark shadows.

I'm of the opinion the wings aren't as literal as has been established in films and models, if it can change shape and produce the wings as needed from the darkness, but in caves/mines it wouldn't need them, and its "wings" are largely figurative/ethereal.

The whole 'Balrog wing' argument is a real headache-inducer...

JohnHwangDD wrote:

Darth Bob wrote:JohnHwangDD said that the Balrog was a "flamey rocky monster",

it was close enough to the Balor's look that Tolkein felt the need to sue D&D.

To clarify, I was describing how the GW model looked, not quoting from JRRT.

No, JRRT sued because DnD used the copyrighted "Balrog" *name* - the appearance was irrelevant.

In the Hersey DnD examples, the issue is that the models are copying the illustrations in the DnD MM, not basing off the DnD text descriptions.

Those models are not by Heresy. They are by Reaper. And where they drew inspirations from (text or pictures) is completely irrelevant. Inspiration was taken from another company's IP, and is therefore illegal. They're still getting away with using someone's IP without reprocutions, which is the point I was trying to make.

I personally don't care, to be perfectly honest, it's no skin off my nose if Fox loses a couple grand because someone did something they should have done in the first place. To be perfectly honest, I doubt that Fox is that worried about it either. However, for the sake of peace, I'm ending this conversation because it's just meaningless, OT spam that obviously is going to never end because of the different views of two opposing parties. Soooooooooooooooooooooo....back on topic.....

This model made me 0_0 the other day when I found there was something that looked suspiciously like a wang underneath its tummy.

Darth Bob wrote:Inspiration was taken from another company's IP, and is therefore illegal.

Not entirely. 'Inspired by' and 'copied from' are two slightly different issues.

insaniak wrote:

Darth Bob wrote:Inspiration was taken from another company's IP, and is therefore illegal.

Not entirely. 'Inspired by' and 'copied from' are two slightly different issues.

Okay, last comment on this topic then I'm done.

I couldn't think of another word for inspiration, but I guess to reword that comment:

"They copied someone elses IP, and therefore it is illegal."

That is what I meant...

Now I'm done .

Darth Bob wrote:Believe you me, people have been doing technically illegal cameos and replications of other peoples' IP for years without suffering the dreaded C&D, and to think that one company (especially considering how small scale this one is) is going to get Fox's banhammer from this one case, is incredibly wishful thinking. I will stand by my view that, while their merits are questionable, it's not going to happen. But I suppose you can dream.

A very good example here is Andrea Miniatures, who make 54mm models inspired, among other things, by various movies. Their range has not-Robocop, not-Terminator, not-Clint-Eastwood, not-Mad-Max, and so on. The likenesses are extremely faithful.



If the various movie studios could to go after them, I'm certain they would.

Agamemnon2 wrote:If the various movie studios could to go after them, I'm certain they would.

There is no question that the studios *could* do so, but likely that they are unaware.

If it were as easy to report IP violations to Fox as GW, and amply rewarded with "free" movie swag, I'm sure we would see a lot more of this stuff hammered down.

This scuttling deviant from the BOLS Tyrannofex/Tervigon conversion competition.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4nzgPbHlNo4/S3DY-xpf62I/AAAAAAAAHJg/k94QnQxY2ug/s1600-h/Jason-Hendricks-01.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4nzgPbHlNo4/S3DZBGb1WPI/AAAAAAAAHJo/IpqOnLJcj70/s1600-h/Jason-Hendricks-02.jpg

I'm assuming this is a one off, and that there isn't an army of beauties similar to this?

BloodofOrks wrote:I have a half-finished lictor on my desk that I painted to look like a ladybug.

nice!

Removed offensive remark calling JohnHwangDD a dick. Please pay attention to Rule #1. - Lorek

However the Mandrakes from GW... Men(?) with girlie boobies. O.o

I was looking through GW's Collecotr's range for WFB and I came across this






































.

I went 0_0 alright. I'm also debating blowing $25 on one just to say I own a badly-painted one.

the model that made me go crazy is that new games-workshop space marine venerable dreadnought.http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat1430057&rootCatGameStyle=

At our last tournament a new chaos marine player showed up. We all admired his awsomely (?) painted and customed slaanesh-nurgle marines. Then the defiler comes out... It's hard to explain so I'll start from the ground up. The legs were typical slaanesh-style defiler legs nurgled up near the "knees" and the sections where it meets the body. The best part was the spikes with the impaled cadians and rotting bodies.

But the upper half... Imagine something along the lines of a fat, bloated, bald person with ultra-sag breasts connected by a fine (and real) gold chain. I can't remember much more detail due to being blinded by its awsome power.

Oh I think one of his tanks had some lady-bits on it too...

Red9 wrote:Removed offensive remark calling JohnHwangDD a dick. Please pay attention to Rule #1. - Lorek

However the Mandrakes from GW... Men(?) with girlie boobies. O.o

I was thinking more of umm... you know ladies that like ladies. (am i allowed to say the l word on this? i sound like a 7 yr old)

and it states on their description on the GW website that "..The Mandrakes have special chameleon-like qualities that allow them to blend into the background even when standing in open terrain.

How does those models look like they have "special chameleon-like qualities" 0_o