On the back of "How do you explain your hobby to people" thread, what does your hobby get called by people you know?

My Missus refers to 40k as "your little plastic sh*t"
My fave from Dakka is "Mandollies"

What do you have to put up with from your friends or Significant Other, with regard to your figures or the hobby?

Nerdhammer, geekhammer, plastic men or simply army.
Nerdhammer has actually really grown on me of late.

Plain Warhammer
Or that Miniature Game

dollies or that kids game

Plastic figurines.

I have to remind them that some are in fact a form of resin or pewter.

Plastic figurines.

I have to remind them that some are in fact a form of resin or pewter.

"Toy Soldiers" is what the people at work refer to it as. My friends refer to it as "that thing that keeps you from affording to become an alcoholic".

Poundsink.

My girlfriend calls it "WHY DON'T YOU BUY ME THINGS ANY MORE"

Painting hams, mans, Warhams, plastic spacemen. Mostly things I say that they pick up on.

daedalus wrote: My friends refer to it as "that thing that keeps you from affording to become an alcoholic".

I've not quite let up on that yet. It came first, but painting does occupy my pint-hand a fair bit.

I'm sorry but if your "friends" make up names about your hobby then they are not really friends.

My missus on the other hand just complains that I play with my models more than I play with her.

Most of my mates are gamers...

So we all call it 'Toy Soldiers'.

One of my more paranoid mates gets awfully over-animated when I call his figures 'toy soldiers'.

He does seem to hide his hobby like most would hide a porno stash...

yeah my non gaming mates call it 'your little men' which i then correct them in a very subtle way and say "No you morons! it's the greatest damn tabletop wargame ever produced, how can you not be into the escapism? what are you some kind of anti fun anti nerd police? get a life and but a battleforce before i stop being friends with you!"

I have friends and coworkers and such who call it 'Dungeons and Dragons' haha

Girl repellent

other then my gaming club noone really knows about it. No-one expects it honestly lol. We dont seem like the types but my gf got into it when we started dateing so i guess i just lucked out.

Why would I have non-gamer friends?

I tend to describe warhammer 40k a sci-fi table top game that uses dice and measurements to play and somewhat camparable to a RTS style feel ech model has a line of stats which are used for determining various things

Either "Nerding out" or more specifically, playing with my "man dollies".

"Gay" (Sorry for the inappropriate term), "Your stupid wardolls", and "That waste of %#&^@*&# money bull^#&* game". However, their hatred sustains me

I've managed to pound the word "Warhammer" deep into the minds of all my friends, so they call it by it's name

My GF calls it " your a sad git " but she really doesnt mind about it.

My missus refers to it as "nerd night" but also encourages me to go (for my mental health, and therefore hers as well).

"Cam's weird stuff, that not everyone can understand." or "The Hobby."

"The Hobby" would be what mine use too, or " Those little dudes"

GF= Army Men
Friends that don't play=Jackhammer...idk why.

I don't have non-gaming mates.

I have non-gaming acquaintances - and their opinion of my hobby is of no concern to me.

I care not for their manly men getting muddy and groping each other 'sport'. They can have their hobby, I have mine.

The wife sees it as nothing unusual. One of her brothers collects Hornby trains, another is a ham radio operator. Her dad collects r/c aircraft. I'm the normal one.

I've talked most of my non-gaming friends into the hobby actually. Even those who aren't can understand the idea of a fun game and tend to be impressed with how well I can paint. I'm certainly not museum quality, but I can stay inside the lines most of the time. I can show those same folks the work from some of the super-talented folks on here (and there are a few) and they're pretty amazed.

Honestly, folks are pretty cool about most hobbies now. I haven't had problems with people being dorks about things in quite a few years. I think some of it has to do with more and more of us being functional human beings and some of it has to do with folks finding out that geek hobbies tend to be fun.

WarOne wrote:Plastic figurines.

I have to remind them that some are in fact a form of resin or pewter.

Before or after you get shoved in a locker?

small army men game

Those who know about it call it 'Dolls'

Small army men game

I call the hobby "effective birth control". My wife is quite supportive though. She knows I could be wasting my time and money driniking and throwing 'toonies at the peelers.

"Those little guys"
"Those statues"

The little men.
Hoodie Marines
or just Warhammer.

"nerd control."

Stupid.

A lot of my friends aren't very smart.

My family calls it Orcs & Gorks. Guess what my first army was... That was a wierd Chrismas.

I encourage my non-gamer friends to call it World of Warhammer as it's a marvellous way of proxy trolling WoW-addicts within my circle of gaming friends


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Lead Farmer wrote:My family calls it Orks & Gorks. Guess what my first army was...

Tau?

MY friends think it's kind acool, but they still make fun of it somethin fierce. it's pretty funny though.
"where's P.G.?"
"playin with Space-Dolls."
"oh."

Most call it Warhammer, but one calls it "that game with the plastic figures", but some don't even know about it.
Most of my friends are wargamers, and most the others have their own weird hobbies, a number play the Pokémon games.

They're always just referred to as "those models that he paints, hey that one looks cool!"

A waste of money.

Warhams, or your hardcore gay porno. Don't ask me why. I have some strange friends!

Surfboard66 wrote:Warhams, or your hardcore gay porno. Don't ask me why. I have some strange friends!

You must be collecting the Butt Thuker orc army.

War Barbies! i stole that from someone on Dakka and spent months converting my non gamer friends from saying dollies to War barbies!

Brother SRM wrote:plastic spacemen

That makes me think of those popular 1950s cartoons of guys in fishbowl spacesuits.
That space game; plastic miniatures; that thing you do.

bleeding-fingertips wrote:

Surfboard66 wrote:Warhams, or your hardcore gay porno. Don't ask me why. I have some strange friends!

You must be collecting the Butt Thuker orc army.

Nahh man, just some deffskull orkz. I don't know why people give this hobby such strange names?

Hams and warhams, usually ham or hamming it up.

Jihadnik wrote:War Barbies! i stole that from someone on Dakka and spent months converting my non gamer friends from saying dollies to War barbies!

I love that!!

My non-gaming friends usually call it 'nerding it up'.

Most of my friends either play or know what it is, and we call it 40k simply, but by g/f calls it "nerd night" also.

She always asks how my "little blue men did in battle" when I get home...gotta love her

Well this is boring but everyone here just says Warhammer or 40k

"Gaming" or "dorking out."

SWMBO refers to my models as "turtles."

Originally, while painting Khador 'jacks (might have been Cryx nightwretches) she said it looked like I was painting miniature turtles, and the name has stuck. Doesn't matter if they're 40k, WM, infantry or vehicles, they're all "turtles."

"what are you doing?"
"painting turtles."

"Geeking Out" or my wife will call them "Your little men"

Lately she's been mimicing me on the way I talk about them by pretending to push up imaginary glasses and saying "MULHIVAN!" *Snort*... Probably shouldn't have taught her that but it's pretty funny!

Thanks Connan!

My missus says "are you going to the Warlock shop" when its gaming night. She doesn't mind it though. My 7 year old god-daughter is a bit crueler though and says with a gleefull grin "are you going to play with your wee men" or "why are you a geek Uncle Johny" and once when walking past the local GW during a particularly busy academy session "look theres the geek shop full of geeks!!!".

All the little kids inside looked terribly horrified, embarrassed and ashamed!

I blame her mum.........

I've always called it "Toy Soldiers." Most of my friends do too.

My non gamer friends get confused when I do this and some of then insist I call it Warhammer. Though to refer to the game most played we usually say 40k.

Hams or Warhams just sounds bizarre.

as i have orks, "dork-hammer" seemed a catcher. Plastic crack has always been fairly accurate too, but thats more of an in-thing... i think maybe it comes from a podcast or something? seems a bit too original for our lot.

Well When I first tried to explain it to my GF, I do not think she herd me correctly when I said the mini's that I am painting are for Warhammer 40k,

She calls it "B2K Barbiehead"

but go figure, she is a cubs fan.

Pyronick wrote:"Geeking Out" or my wife will call them "Your little men"

Lately she's been mimicing me on the way I talk about them by pretending to push up imaginary glasses and saying "MULHIVAN!" *Snort*... Probably shouldn't have taught her that but it's pretty funny!

Thanks Connan!

I like that, "Your little men."

"Oh, that warhammer thing..."
Although most just know it as "Warhammer" or "40k".
Some call it "That model army thing..."

None of my friends know.
My family call it warhammer, but my sister probably says other stuff behind my back.
But hell, I enjoy it, so haters can go boil their heads.

My brother calls it, Nerd-Da-Nerd-Nerd-Nerd.....

My girlfriend is pretty mean she calls it "stupid F***ing models" and has banned me from playing in the house even though I don't really play in the house any way, my boss calls it soldiers when I head to the club or games night straight from work. Often people at work see me with my figure case and ask what's in it they never believe me when I say toy soldiers.

Friends?? I think I need to get out more...

Parents: Warhammer
Friends: "..." (It's never brought up as their vidya games and Hellsing are ohhh sooo important)
Ex: "..." (Also was never brought up even though she knew I did it)

The eternal involuntary abstinence game. Also: 'Dude, where's your social life?'

DeathReaper wrote:
She calls it "B2K Barbiehead"

This had me in hysterics, your gf/wife/sexthing(till we got married) is a legend.

Warmallet, just cause they think it urks me.

Donghammer, Plastic Toys, Plastic S**t, Log Jammer 40k. You have to imagine these names being said in the most 5 yr old condescending voice also.

My fiance calls it warhammers. I've trained her properly. But she calls the guys at the store warhams or neckbeards. I also taught her that. lol.

I have never had to bring up my hobby around my non gamer friends. Generally we/they are fine to talk about football/F1/Gettin' Mad Wee'it! for the whole time. Luckily they all enjoy movies and tv so it's not that i'm a masochist. I just don't think it would interest most my friends, if they see my models they usually say 'that's pretty cool' and leave it at that.

I'ts quite ironic in that i often try and stay on top of sports news even though i am not particularly interested. All to keep up and not make them feel they are talking AT me and not WITH me.

Listrel wrote:My girlfriend is pretty mean she calls it "stupid F***ing models" and has banned me from playing in the house even though I don't really play in the house any way

Dude, you need to upgrade your girlfriend. Or invest in something whip resistant.

Both friends and my girlfriend refer to them as "models" or "toy soldiers". One Christmas when her grandfather asked if I had any hobbies, she piped up and said I was into "28mm scale wargaming". Did me proud, she did.

Interesting over-priced-useless toys
=D

Perkustin wrote:I'ts quite ironic in that i often try and stay on top of sports news even though i am not particularly interested. All to keep up and not make them feel they are talking AT me and not WITH me.

Perhaps you should take that as a sign to form a new friend crew. Maybe one based on your interest in the hobby.

Little dudes.

My dad calls it "Dakka" believe it or not.
My mum calls it "toys" Gah! Toys! They are not toys!
A friend calls them "Social Suicide", but hey, I'm getting him into Infinity even as we speak or type...
I don't really have many friends that know of my hobby, I tend to keep away from that topic just in case I get even more hated than I already am. Tell one person, they all find out at school.

Element206 wrote:

Perkustin wrote:I'ts quite ironic in that i often try and stay on top of sports news even though i am not particularly interested. All to keep up and not make them feel they are talking AT me and not WITH me.

Perhaps you should take that as a sign to form a new friend crew. Maybe one based on your interest in the hobby.

I like to think i'm quite considerate about that kind of thing, i never want someone to feel they are boring me, i like to show genuine interest in what people have to say. Anyway sport always has good setups for Lulz so it aint that bad.

Skinnereal wrote:What do you have to put up with from your friends or Significant Other, with regard to your figures or the hobby?

Most of my friends are gamers of some sort, so they at least understand.

My current girlfriend refers to my 40K and & Blood Bowl figs as my "little fella's."

After I described 40K and Blood Bowl to the last gal I tried to make my girlfriend prior to my current girlfriend, she just sort of stopped answering the phone.

Warhammer.

Dubya Eightch

Models.

They laugh as a group, then when everyone goes home, the last person is like, "Doop, can you teach me mate?"

All of my friends know how to play, but haven't admitted it too each other. I am the only one in my school who is open about the hobby haha.

As a matter of fact, they have all said that if the hobby didn't cost so much, they'd play.

Little plastic guys is what I hear from the family. To my pets, it's " lets flip over the box LOL!"

My roomies call it "my little gnomes".

My roommate from college always called it "little f***ers" (and still does).

"You goin to play little f***ers?"
"Yeah, I'll meet you at the bar later."
"Ok."

I once helped him install new kitchen counters. I cut a perfectly-fit sink hole out of 2" butcher-block counter tops with a jigsaw, freehand. He looks in amazement, says, "Holy s**t, how'd you get that so perfect? OH! IT'S CAUSE YOU DO THOSE LITTLE F***ERS!"

He said it with sincere admiration, but I can't say it was exactly a well-worded compliment.

- H8

Dad calls it Wizzard of warcraft or wizzard of warhammer,

But its all in good fun.

My gf simply refers to it as me being nerdy. most of my other friends also game or dont know about it. in fact my gf has painted all the models i have painted. except the priming which i did.

My girlfriend and her family call it "your little war dudes". They know the true name, but it's just stuck.

Mandollies...

Though my partner refers to it as Plasticrack... even she is hooked on daemonettes.

You have Non gamer friends?

The best I've received is

"Borehammer"

I find it quite funny

The Missus called them My little plastic men for years...she now calls them "War Barbies" after reading the term on Dakka.

Most of my non-gaming friends (which is most of my friends)...call them " Those things you paint.." or " Army Men".

evilsponge wrote:Girl repellent

I lol'd.

Non-gamer mates of mine simply refer to the hobby as 'toy soldiers' and snigger.

Warhams

Same thing as I call it. Warhammer.

She Who Must Be Obeyed calls it "your little men" most of the time and "your stupid little toy soldiers" during that special time of the month when she grows hair and fangs...

Whatever, babe. You married it. It ain't going away. You might be able to temporarily banish them to the garage, but they'll be back...Oh...they'll be back....

"Warhammer da 40 million geek workshop with da hammmeeeeeers"
My mate scott can only be described as a lunatic.

Due to him, even I call it geek workshop now, its second nature, but i love it lol

I buy 'Nerd Stuff' for my 'Nerd Game' and the'Nerd Store'. I used to go to 'Nerd Conventions' where I'd win awards for 'Best Painting Nerd'. Now it's just plain ol' "Army men'.

Nerdage, Plastic army men, Nerd crack, toys.

Ratius wrote:On the back of "How do you explain your hobby to people" thread

can i have the link to this thread please?

My spouse always refers to it as going "to play with my little men" or I'm "going to the little men store". I have such a loving supportive spouse.

Ranging from most annoying to least:

"gay-ass f*ggot toys"
"toy trains"
"wee mans"
"warhammers"

Also, "gay dorkshop" when referring to the GW store.

This is all stuff I've heard from people who don't realise that I play. I keep my hobby on a need to know basis for a very good reason, because this is the general popular opinion of it amongst most males (even ones who will happily veg out in front of an xbox for 10 hours).

Remember, if they're willing to say something slightly derisive in front of you, then they're probably saying something 10 tens as worse behind your back!

Strangely I haven't had much trouble with letting partners know about it... one hated it (very short relationship, that), others have been either "supportive but disinterested" or actively interested and appreciative. Girls are mostly okay with it.. although I once had an amusing conversation with one who mentioned that she would dump her boyfriend if he ever started playing warhammer again. I let her rant, then mentioned that I play and that it's an artistic and social hobby that beats the hell out of staying at home with computer games or hitting f5 on facebook. It's so amusing when someone slags something off and then they realise they've been insulting you by accident.

Gay, toy soldiers, waste of money and World of Warhammer.

"Queer"

"Warhammers", "Warhams", Bone-Hammer", "Little Guys", and "Nerd Games".

My Mother calls them by a very funny name.

Those little "Figaries".

I think she means Figures and Faries.

Gf = Miniatures
My close friends just smile and refer to them as "gay-mer crap"

My mates either play it or have played the games like squad command and DoW so it get called warhammer by them but my girlfriend calls it "ughh"

Queer ass dolls
Super Deluxe Megatron battle figurine game
nerd game
those gay things

necrondude89 wrote:I tend to describe warhammer 40k a sci-fi table top game that uses dice and measurements to play and somewhat camparable to a RTS style feel ech model has a line of stats which are used for determining various things

When you leave they laugh at you even harder...

CT GAMER wrote:

necrondude89 wrote:I tend to describe warhammer 40k a sci-fi table top game that uses dice and measurements to play and somewhat camparable to a RTS style feel ech model has a line of stats which are used for determining various things

When you leave they laugh at you even harder...

hahahah True that

My cousin for some odd reason refers to them as "Mogwais", which I always find very amusing and have started refering to them when talking with him in this manner, but it's definitely not an insult as he's explained that he'd never have the patience to do the work required to paint the models.

Parents just refer to em as models and my friends mostly refer to them as "those little dudes".

Lucky for me, I don't have anyone that I know that would be an ass about the hobby aspect of it all, they all have some sort of nerd style hobby themselves whether it'd be 360/PS3/PC gaming or reading sci-fi/fantasy books. They mostly are just perplexed about the size of the models and the sizes of the brushes to paint them.

"Toy soldiers" or "wee men" (thanks dad)

ETA: I used to collect My Little Pony in a serious and expensive way (NO LAUGHING) so frankly family/friends think the warhams is an improvement.

Friends at work usually call them dolls, but my girlfriend cames them either my army, or my art as she appreciates the time and skill that go into the hobby. Most of my friends and family just call it 40K.

Yer little toyz!

The missus calls it Orks. As in: "Can you get those orks off the kitchen table" or "I lifted your ork-books back to the bookshelf."
Doesn't matter if she's actually talking about my Orks, or my Tomb Kings, or rulebooks or White Dwarf magazines. Orks is a handy catch-all word for everything Warhammer

Most of my friends just call it Warhammer.

My friends like to tell me I play with dolls......

My friends call it Warhammer. No matter what system it is. Warmachine/Hordes = Warhammer. Hordes of the Things = Warhammer. Wings of War = Warhammer. Uncharted Seas = Warhammer, etc. At least they have the general concept.

Reading this thread makes me realize it could be a lot worse.

Whenever we play, the wives call it the "Nerd herd" going down to the "Nerd Cave" to do "Nerd Sh#t". How we love them so!

One time one of them really went on a tear - "Why do you guys spend so much time doing this gay crap? You just go down into the basement and do gay stuff. Actually, I wish you were being gay down there - then it wouldn't take FOUR HOURS and we could go out and do something tonight!"

Not exactly politically correct, but the exasperation was amusing. They're all pretty good-humored enough about it, but all the women-folk like to rib us because they're the ones cooking dinner and watching the kids when we play. We give it back just as good when they go to their book club or doing their photography stuff (and do our turn with the babysitting and domestics).

Ah, functional marriages are beautiful things!

i try not to talk about it. In my job this kinda thing is seen as a weakness.

My wife calls it Shame, as in Shame Workshop, due to the inordinate amount of time I've spent hiding it from normo's and my avoidance of the topic in conversation.

Luckily she appreciates the art side of my modelling, the obvious stress relief it brings me and the way it can be used to distract and amuse me for hours on end. Oh and that my collection is worth a serious amount of money. Although if I misbehave she does threaten to stamp on my halflings. Her own shame is that she now knows what the models are and will comment on my work; before catching herself, looking angry/embarrassed and walking off mumbling. I think she's just glad I'm not into boring mainstream sports (men hugging in mud, men chasing an inflated pig and then hugging) or drinking. She does get jealous of my main gaming buddy (who I've known most of my life) and the amount of time we spend wittering to each other, like teenage girls on the phone, about little men.

My non-gaming friends know very little about it (if anything) except sometimes seeing a model on my desk. So far every normo I've exposed to my Shame has been impressed with the painting (although I always think its hard to appreciate the level of skill that goes into painting unless you've actually tried it).

My mates called it 'Games Dorkshop' until they found out I played 40k, then they stopped calling it that.

My other half is WHFB player, so she calls the games 'Fantasy' or '40K'.

To my girlfriend, my models are always referred to as my "friends," to which I can't complain about. Whenever mom stumbles in, they're "creatures," and to the rest of my friends, it's just the stuff I do in my garage. All in all, it could be worse

Maxim C. Gatling wrote:She Who Must Be Obeyed calls it "your little men" most of the time and "your stupid little toy soldiers" during that special time of the month when she grows hair and fangs...

Whatever, babe. You married it. It ain't going away. You might be able to temporarily banish them to the garage, but they'll be back...Oh...they'll be back....

Sounds like a perfect plot for a short horror film...

My gf calls it Warhammer, but she manages to say it in such a way that every time she says 'Warhammer' I feel like my involvement in the hobby is the direct cause of a whole orphanage of war orphans being suffocated by having dead kittens shoved down their throats while watching the staff of the orphanage defaecate over the few possessions they have...

As for my non-gamer friends, it's a bit like fight club, they think it's sad, they don't care, and so I don't bother bringing it up.

Gayhammer, faghammer, doughhammer, lolhammer, roflhammer, warhammer, dickhammer, plastichammer, GWissomuchbleepingmoneyitsnotevenfunnyhammer.

All of my mates are gamers anyway so no worries there. My girl calls my army 'my little men' but then so do I.

My mum keeps on asking me when I'm going to grow up. Her face was a picture when she asked me what I wanted for my 30th birthday and I said some more skaven. Hehe

A couple of my closest friends called it "Toy Soldiers" but they don't really do it in a horrible way, it's just banter.

A few of my other friends are actually gamers so it's just normal.

Girlfriend is a huge WoW nerd and loves the fluff of GW so just calls me a "nerd" to which she gets it back twice as much! ;-) I lucked out with her!

Coyotebreaks wrote:My mum keeps on asking me when I'm going to grow up. Her face was a picture when she asked me what I wanted for my 30th birthday and I said some more skaven. Hehe

Mine got me into gaming in the first place. She wasn't too chuffed to hear I'd started 40k after 20 years. Oh well.

Rogueyopants wrote: doughhammer

I don't get this one. Is it a fat joke, or is it because it cost too much money?

My finance calls it my "nerd-ism"

My non-gamer freind's call them " Your little dudes" then I mutter to the models and the conversation takes a turn to " Did you just talk to It!!!?"

Mom: Gaming, Warhammer (i've told her a little about the fluff)
Non- 40k Friends: Rawhammer (some insult to manhood is implied)
40k Friends: 40k, Army men, money-sink,GW's proof that they have us by the b@lls
GF: Plastic guys ( she doesn't give me crap about it but she doesn't really get the idea either, but she does appreciate the painting)

One time I couldn't go over a friends house, because I already had an ongoing Apocalypse Game I needed to finish. To this day, whenever I'm busy for extended periods of time, said friend asks if I'm finishing up a "Nerdaclysm match"

Collectively by pretty much everyone who isn't a gamer calls them toy soldiers, but thats ok because thats practically what they are

Current girlfriend now calls it "Nerdism" or "That nerd stuff you do"

Yeah

My mates normally call it "geek" or little men and occasionally battling, some have learnt to call it 40k to be fair.

"Your miniatures"

Note the *your*

The best I've heard was a friend of mine recently who called it 'Warhamster 40p'..... Well, it made me laugh anyways....
As for what the wife calls it, well, this is a family forum!

My wife refers to the local GW as her "Man Crèche"
Somewhere she can drop me off while she's shopping, and pick me up when she's finished.

After looking at the tables, one of my friends dubbed it 'The Math Game.' About a year later, his roommate got Battle for Skull Pass, and math or not, both were hooked.

My wife refers to it as

"you spent HOW MUCH, on WHAT?"

or simply as
"LAME"

Luckily she is a Nerd in other things, so it's ok in the end.

No-one really knows about it tbh, just my fiance, her sister and bro in law.

I've not been in the position where I'd need to talk about it to my non gaming mates, though as and when I do I've got a speech built up around it being chess on a grander scale. not sure why I get a twisty feeling in my gut when I think about my drinking buddies getting wind of it...


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Thinking about it, my GF actually asked me to paint a model as though it were her, so she's kinda coming round to it. She likes the painting side of it but nothing else. She'll walk in to my local store with me, and then push me out of the door complaining about the smell of "little boys" being too strong

@MrGiggles, is that Tengwar on your Pic?

On topic, when I was younger I collected the LOTR. I had a massive argument with people at my school (going back some years) as they believed that it was all called Warhammer, so that LOTR was called Warhammer of the Ring.

But I mostly don't tell people about it outside my social group. although my girlfriend calls it "My little toys" which I quite like

My friend called my Daemonette "The only girl I'll see in her underwear".

LOL

Money Pit. Then I get the urge to go watch the moive.

"that nerdy thing" or nothing at all. I mainly do it when i am not in college so none of my friends here know about it.

My friends and actually everyone around me, call them my 'little men' xD in dutch 'mannekes', my hobby they respect because once i've showed them a book and some of the 'simple' rules they saw the challenge and reespectable intelligence that is required to actually be able to play this game and the painting they find amasing my hobby is much accepted even by my girlfriend who thinks it's cute XD

Melkhiordarkblade wrote:My friend called my Daemonette "The only girl I'll see in her underwear".

LOL

Keep him, that man is a true bro.

My friends usually refer to it as "that thing that will stop you ever getting laid".

Wifey calls it "Playing with my little men" although she has Nid's so she feels shes except from that line...

Zonder wrote:Wifey calls it "Playing with my little men" although she has Nid's so she feels shes except from that line...

Great that ur wife is busy in the hobby as well xD

Well she got in to it enough to understand it. Then hasnt played much since then. If I asked her for a game she could play tho.

My friends call it "that horrendous waste of money", my boyfriend just calls it "Your plastic crack".

automatonsleuth wrote:My friends call it "that horrendous waste of money", my boyfriend just calls it "Your plastic crack".

hmmmmm plastic crack XD

j.i. joes

RutgerMan wrote:

Zonder wrote:Wifey calls it "Playing with my little men" although she has Nid's so she feels shes except from that line...

Great that ur wife is busy in the hobby as well xD

I'm jealous!

I spend a LOT of time on one box of models, so the woman appreciates it. It's really not THAT expensive unless you just rush through things. Video games cost way more and keeping up with the flavor of the week game is WAY more costly. I get a lot of "Your little men", and "Your models" from her. Even my nonplaying friends have an appreciation for it though. They usually call them "Your army men", but most of them know what warhammer is. My friends are all geeks. I get a standard reaction of "How on earth do you paint such tiny things? My hands shake too much and I don't have enough patience!". I just need to invite them around for a paint night sometime. My favorite reaction is my coworker who is enamored with my models but cannot figure out why I would put so much work into something that doesn't turn a profit. He has no idea what fun or relaxation is, and does everything in his life for profit.

Munga, I wish my missus was as understanding as your's.
As for the pricing topic, yes its not cheap. But as you say, if you take your time and model and paint a unit a month then its really quite good value!

Yeah, she's also a jeweler and an artist and appreciates how hard detail work is. She's actually taught me a lot about sculpting and we've made some awesome stuff with sculpley, and after a bit of learning, greenstuff. At least she turns a profit with hers, though. She will still lay the law down about my unfinished work, though. Can't have an unfinished project if I want more toys, for better or worse

They look at me blankly with out any idea what im saying...

My wife used to pretend to cough and say "nerds" when we were playing, but then she tried her hand at painting and played a couple games. Now she really enjoys when we host a game here, which we do frequently. The fact we dedicate an entire room to gaming really helps with that. You married guys know there's not much chance of having the largest room in the house dedicated to gaming unless your wife is really supportive and really into it.

Over the last winter I painted during lunch at my workplace. My co-workers thought it was very cool and creative.

However, I do have the "Oh, playing with you little men again?" element in my life, namely my wife's friends. They are being funny of course. Right. Kidding. Ha.

My wife (very supportive of my gaming hobby) calls it "Dorksy Orksy" as my first army was an Ork army.

lego men

I call it Analog DIY Starcraft

Usually people call them midget soldiers

Oh man. I have accrued a heck of alot.

My favorite by far has got to be my friend Christinas moniker for them... "Barbie Dolls"

^ How demeaning.

The usual...

Waste of time
Plastic dude game
No life hobby

Those sorts of things...

my wife calls it "dorkhammer"

My wife says "Go play with your lil men" =) which means mo play time! woot . But when she says it and other people are around they look a lil confused lol

I don't reguard anyone who belittles a hobby I have a friend, as I don't take the mick out of baking/sports etc, but I have a couple of acquaintances who refer to it as 'toy soldiers' or 'that thing you play' but generally i find that others of a female persuasion just look at me in horror when I mention it and it becomes 'that thing which must not be mentioned ever, ever, ever'. Family that know I play just says 'toy soldiers' as well and those who don't know I play... well theres a reason I don't tell them. (Not the most open minded lot.)

Before I got into the gaming myself I still made the effort to call the games by name... guess that acceptance was why I got corrupted.

My fiancee seems to like it less and less ... but shes turning into an animal hoarder so I may have to order Exterminatus on that fairly soon ... X.x

Outside of work and lack of funds i don't go out much but most of the friends I keep in touch with usually make references to little toy soldiers.

My parents seem to be going from 'the little men' or from my dad 'how do you enjoy that?' to 'that thing you do obsessively and might make a career out of if you keep at it.' Refering to the painting and hobby aspect of course. I don't think its possible to live off of the gaming aspect.

legos... no idea why but all my friends confuse them with legos... they dont even look alike

Toy Soldiers or Expensive Plastic.

My online mates call it 'dolls'. Theyre annoyed cos I play less online, while my wife sanctioned my hobby, as now I can read books and make lists while she watches junk on tv on my lap.

To everyone else of my generation or younger, I say its a real life RPG. 'ya know, you buy a shield that gives you xx life in warcraft, but i give it to my leaders, who run around on the board'.

I don't care how many times this thread comes up because I love it and some of the replies are priceless.

My girlfriend is massively accepting as she is a big geek herself (WoW, sci-fi, science etc) but she doesn't join in or play with me.

A few of my friends are gamers so we either rip it on purpose calling it "toy soldiers" etc but it's all in jest. We know IT'S FETHING REAL LIFE...I mean...a toy.

My two closest friends aren't gamers and quite enjoy giving me a hard time over it. I give it back to them though as one spends his life in the gym which is all he ever talks about and it pisses me off a lot and the other spends his life at work or on his pushbike. Again, in my eyes very sad. We all have common hobbies together though namely drinking, football and music but it's nice to have your own strange ways.

It started out as my nerdy stuff to my girlfriend but after a week or so she calls it warhammer now Although i still get the pleasure of comments from my brothers and non-wargaming friends, toy soliders and little men are the most common i find

They call it "that Warhammer game".

Need-to-know basis.

I don't get any comments because it's not something I tell people.

i've had my stuff called 'gay', 'childish', boring, a waste of money, had my friends tell me "i got out of that when i was 8, take the hint". all i say is that it's my hobby, it keeps me happy, and most people under the age of 12 are too immature to understand the principle of cost vs. benefit. although now they either don't care or are starting to warm to it, don't think any of them will be buying a battleforce any time soon though

WAAAAGGHH-god wrote:i've had my stuff called 'gay', 'childish', boring, a waste of money, had my friends tell me "i got out of that when i was 8, take the hint".

Since hobbies are very subjective, so it's what we sometimes expect to hear.
But, what are their hobbies? Do they have one? Is it seen the same by others as wargaming is by them?
It's sad, but we survive

WAAAAGGHH-god wrote:i've had my stuff called 'gay', 'childish', boring, a waste of money, had my friends tell me "i got out of that when i was 8, take the hint". all i say is that it's my hobby, it keeps me happy, and most people under the age of 12 are too immature to understand the principle of cost vs. benefit. although now they either don't care or are starting to warm to it, don't think any of them will be buying a battleforce any time soon though

With friends like these...

Ah-ah-ah. No-one needs enemies.