I'm curious to see what stories people have of their precious models being broken/sold/lost or worse and the reaction to finding out.
I'll start this off with what my girlfriend did to my Forgeworld Venerable Dreadnaught after a heated exchange involving me painting. I'd just about finished painting it up, had attatched the banner etc and working on a few last details and had left it to dry while eating dinner. Later that night we had a 'disagreement' about something and ended up dangerously close to my paint station, basically I started to put it away and as I had it in my hand she swiped it and it went flying to the floor. Result = Snapped Banner, 1 Part of the Wing broken, Power Claw arm and Claws broken off and Finally the Dread had been broken in 1/2 between the torso and legs. In the end we patched things up and I fixed him up as good as possible and learnt to stay clear of the paint station area during arguments.
Never happened to me. But then my stuff is always packed away because our 3 year daughter loves daddies toy soldiers to the point of breakage.
I cant blame the little bean for breakages but I would have a serious cob on though if the Mrs did, with the sort of face that she would know to apologise PDQ.
A guy I played at Waaaghpaca last year told me the story how his crazy ex destroyed his whole 3 armies of oop minis by feeding some of them into a garbage disposal. Some were burned and some were also tossed, needless to say he got a restraining order.
Me: my Wife has used my brushes and not cleaned them well, and used them in latex paint and gak. means I get to buy new ones...
Nothing's ever happened to my stuff, but .....A friend of mines girlfriend took an army of his, put it in a box, shook it up, then sprayed green paint all over it.
Worst thing she's ever done is to swipe a bit out of my bitz box that i had plans for, and use it as base scenery
My 3 year old LOOOVES daddy's deffkoptas though, and those crappy pre-DE flight stands are too fragile for preschooler use I've redrilled and re-standed those things more times..
I caught my 6 year old zooming aroubd the house with my Razorwing in one hand, making fwoooshing sounds, but i can hardly blame her for that
A friend had an argument with his soon-to-be-ex, and she tossed his army bag into a passing garbage truck, which crushed it before he could get there. 3500 + pts of oldschool DE gone, but the new DE release was a month after, so he's rebuilding with the nicer looking ones..
Sometimes my sister use my brushes to paint something, she have the unpleasant habit of let them into the water cup while she is not using them... So, they fork faster...
My mom once took my playstation 2 (new shine, 1,5 months of use) and threw it to the floor. The damage was irreparable...
Back when I was still living with my parents (in fact, right before I left for university), my mum decided that we needed more room in the house. Without asking me, my models were arbitrarily tossed in the trash.
That was really painful, as the collection contained not just my figs, but also several Airfix model ships and planes that I had spent a long time putting together and painting up.
When I first started I did my spraying on the floor of my bedroom.
It was xmas and my mam told my sis to turn on the candle on my window sill.
So she walked into my room in the dark and stomp on my models.
Total accident but still the worst catastrope to ever befall my mnis.
I had just built a metal Bretonnian lord on Hippogryph. The only place to store it without damaging it at the time was the cup holder of my car. Because of its size it stuck up about 3 inches over the cup holder so it was fairly obvious.
My fiancee tried to place a glass cup in the cup holding, when it wouldn't fit she looked down and the model and stuck it with the glass cup HARD twice before simply setting the glass cup on top of it.
My crazy ex-GF when I was in the army broke into my barracks room (yes in an MP Barracks) and smashed half of my full Ultramarine 2nd Company with my spare nightstick when I away for me grandmother's funeral. My neighbor heard the racket and scared her off.
gohkm wrote:Back when I was still living with my parents (in fact, right before I left for university), my mum decided that we needed more room in the house. Without asking me, my models were arbitrarily tossed in the trash.
That was really painful, as the collection contained not just my figs, but also several Airfix model ships and planes that I had spent a long time putting together and painting up.
Ouch thats bad.
My little brother once had to bring 3 things that were important to him to school for "show and tell" one of the things he chose was one of my metal chaplains because he really liked spending time with me and playing 40K with his big brother.
While at school it was knocked off his desk and broken, and then lost or possibly stolen.
He was quite upset; since it was my model and he hadn't asked me to borrow it (I was away at university).
There is a picture that was taken of him with his three special things (now two special things), all the other kids were smiling in their pictures, but he was barely holding back the tears in his. So what was supposed to be a special day for him turned into one of the worst days in his life.
He couldn’t even tell me himself so my mom phoned me instead.
I felt pretty bad for him, and also quite touched that he loved our 40k sessions enough to make it one of his three special things.
Needless to say I completely forgave him and gave him a hug when I saw him next. Finding out that he loved me that much was worth way more than one little metal marine.
Also he later found the chaplain (still broken) in an outer pouch of his backpack! One drop of superglue later and it was back to granting “litany of hate” to my crusader squads and assisting in the killing of his orks.
My cats like to drink my paint water and bat my minies around, once one of them batted 10 of my bloodthirsters onto the floor where they were devoured by my puppie (i was asleep at the time) I was only able to salvage 4 :(
DeadGaurd wrote:My cats like to drink my paint water and bat my minies around, once one of them batted 10 of my bloodthirsters onto the floor where they were devoured by my puppie (i was asleep at the time) I was only able to salvage 4 :(
My cats used to bite the heads off my lego men and bat them around the floor.
The same cat used to eat spiders... not sure if there was a correlation.
I like my cats, but man, they're pretty dumb, the one is like the biggest stoner cat ever, (we got him from a shelter) he's like borderline comotose I have no idea how he has enough brains to keep his heart beating, but he's really nice, any way sorry to get off topic
Ascalam wrote:A friend had an argument with his soon-to-be-ex, and she tossed his army bag into a passing garbage truck, which crushed it before he could get there. 3500 + pts of oldschool DE gone, but the new DE release was a month after, so he's rebuilding with the nicer looking ones..
DeadGaurd wrote:My cats like to drink my paint water and bat my minies around, once one of them batted 10 of my bloodthirsters onto the floor where they were devoured by my puppie (i was asleep at the time) I was only able to salvage 4 :(
I have sacrificed many d12s to the Gods Under the Fridge.
I'm not sure why the cat prefers d12s to d20s, maybe d20 rolls too well. At least it keeps her from the models.
Bat Manuel wrote:Nothing's ever happened to my stuff, but .....A friend of mines girlfriend took an army of his, put it in a box, shook it up, then sprayed green paint all over it.
My Wife wouldn't do anything to my stuff. She would just run me over.
However,
When I first procured the wiener dogs I had ahabit of using a breakfast tray and painting on the tile in the front room. Paint a little, pet dog on either side of me. However wiener dogs are jealous.
-Rodney the weiner drank all the paint out of a bottle and ran off with two chaos knights NOM NOM when I stepped off to grab some coffee.
-TBone was displeased that I was not paying enough attention and throwing the ball enugyh whilst painting. TO express this he wattled over and peed on the tray, the minis in the tray, the mini I was holding, and me, all the while barking at me. You don't tick off TBone the Terror.
Bat Manuel wrote:Nothing's ever happened to my stuff, but .....A friend of mines girlfriend took an army of his, put it in a box, shook it up, then sprayed green paint all over it.
My Wife wouldn't do anything to my stuff. She would just run me over.
However,
When I first procured the wiener dogs I had ahabit of using a breakfast tray and painting on the tile in the front room. Paint a little, pet dog on either side of me. However wiener dogs are jealous.
-Rodney the weiner drank all the paint out of a bottle and ran off with two chaos knights NOM NOM when I stepped off to grab some coffee.
-TBone was displeased that I was not paying enough attention and throwing the ball enugyh whilst painting. TO express this he wattled over and peed on the tray, the minis in the tray, the mini I was holding, and me, all the while barking at me. You don't tick off TBone the Terror.
Some day I would like to meet those two.
If only to say that I have looked death in the face...
Worst that ever happened to me was my mom throwing my centerpieces of my tau army including a forge world battle suit off my dresser and then curb stomping all over them my room. 5 battlesuits and a forge world piece gone. Ill admit, I was pretty much in shock at that point. She then went into the computer room and torn my monitor cables out of the CPU and dropped it down the stairs. Before finally she broke my key board over the railing. That was a bad night
They dont do anything because they are very afraid not to get their own things smashed up in return, hehe.
But most do claim their space wolf grey looks better then my salamanders green in an never ending circle of debate.
My crazy ex-GF when I was in the army broke into my barracks room (yes in an MP Barracks) and smashed half of my full Ultramarine 2nd Company with my spare nightstick when I away for me grandmother's funeral. My neighbor heard the racket and scared her off.
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A friend had an argument with his soon-to-be-ex, and she tossed his army bag into a passing garbage truck, which crushed it before he could get there. 3500 + pts of oldschool DE gone, but the new DE release was a month after, so he's rebuilding with the nicer looking ones..
lol Dont tell me you guys actually let them get away with this?
If anyone did that to me his or her (I dont care, I´m all for equality) majority of frontal teeth and possibly also entire jaw would need serious and I mean serious, lenghtly and very costly surgical replacement work.
Accidents is something else and I had almost all my army smashed up twice by accidents, tough luck and no hard feelings but if anyone and I dont care who, where and why, deliberately ruined something as personal as this of mine they would end up in hospital regretting their actions for months to come.
swampyturtle wrote:Worst that ever happened to me was my mom throwing my centerpieces of my tau army including a forge world battle suit off my dresser and then curb stomping all over them my room. 5 battlesuits and a forge world piece gone. Ill admit, I was pretty much in shock at that point. She then went into the computer room and torn my monitor cables out of the CPU and dropped it down the stairs. Before finally she broke my key board over the railing. That was a bad night
Dude. There is definitely a lot more to that story, but I'm sorry for your loss.
She also dropped a box full of chaos metals into the recycling. I still remind her of my five juggernaunts, dread and all metal chaos marines being burnt at the local centre.
Wow some of you guys have some crazy women in your lives. Luckily, my gf hasn't done any harm to my minis. The worst thing she's come is threatening to shake up my bits containers and mix all the bits when I'm not at home. I'm somewhat OCD and have all my bits neatly arranged in small containers - she just says that to get a rise outta me.
Several years ago I got into a fight with my current at the time girl friend. I tend to ignore screaming, ranting women, which apparently makes them scream and rant even more.
So when I wouldn't respond to her she started picking up the sergeant models in my blood angel 3rd company and snapping all the banners off...
The damage seems minor, but those banners are a pain to fix!
I've never dated a girl who threatened physical damage to anything I owned, and I've been through some nasty breakups. You people know some crazy women.
I have this shelf above my comp where all my models are. i also keep my speakers there. they are connected to my laptop and are connected to each other at opposites ends of the shelf.
My mom one day decides to come into my room when im sleeping( i hate this but she just says "its my internet too")
But she decided to move it. i wake up to a crash of all my lovingly paint models. she says she will replace anything(nothing is missing.) tothis day i wish said my landraider was broken beyond repair.
Im still upset about this one. a few years ago....
My cousins drops her kids of for some reason. they are both young. i leave for work while come back to my mom saying
"Son, im so sorry"
Why what happened?
She is panicing for some reason(she knows how i will react(very angirly)
"I thought they would just watch cartoons"
"What happened? I walk into my room to see everything is broken and the kids thought it would be fun to break my things. all my models are broken many of my conversions are totoled and missing crucial pieces.
I cant remember what happened after that. i was angry i know that and my mom tried to downplay saying
"Their Just kids, they dont know any better" and "Its my fault ill replace it" 4 years later those kids still arent allowed in my room even if their mom in in there. they all know it and they all break it.
My cousin also tried to use my models for bathtime toys for her kids.
Honestly, the worst that's happened to me was when my dad got all pissy about me leaving my models around (I had just played a big game the day before, and planned to clean up on the day after that) and just started throwing them roughly into a box. Most of them were fine, being Ork boyz glued with plastic cement, but twas the day of much, much deffkopta blade repairs...
I had a crazy bi!#$h ex-GF who ran over about fifteen Catachan/Necromunda Heavy weapon conversions.Example the las-cannon back pack mounted one.What was the worst part she threw them out in yard and did it with a mower.All over some really petty stuff.Thank god that i eventuallygot rid of her.Now my wife,likes the hobby.She even plays every now then when we have multi player games and need an extra player.She even has here own blood Bowl team and around 50 Black library novels.
Girlfriend and friends have never done anything to my gaming stuff.
My friends are mostly gamers. They know enough not to touch it.
Girlfriends have been aware of whom and what I was from the start (gamer, and that it wasn't going to change) - so they also didn't touch them unless they wanted to see them closer-up (and having sought and received permission).
The worst thing my wife has done was make me paint and assemble a WHFB "Fortified manorhouse".
If a parent is ever raging to the point that they're throwing things or behaving violently, nothing in the world says you have to live with that. It's not "normal" and it's not okay. Same goes for SOs.
Back on topic, I've had a female take one of my minis and claim it as her own. Apparently my Possessed only needed to be 9 strong, and the guy with big horns and a fiery skull face was "cute" and liked riding on dashboards. He eventually disappeared from the face of the earth. I like to think that one day she'll find him and cry because it reminds her of me.
My girlfriend has a bad habit of winning more often than not against me. And painting better than me. And doing better in tournaments than me. She's a damn good Cryx player.
Other than that, the only real "harm" to come to any of my minis is when I'm gluing things together with my cockatiel on my shoulder. He likes to run down my arm or jump on to the table and pluck the recently settled glued piece off of models. He also likes to climb on top of models and stand on them like he's king bird. It's too adorable to be mad at
To be fair in my instance, I'm NOT about to go beat up my mom , no matter what she does.
Well, duh!
This is why I don't have a girlfriend.
The real problem is that often people are desperate or not careful enough to get together with a gakking closet psycho.
First and only rule: Dont date a fing immature child in a grown ups body and you´ll be perfectly fine.
My girlfriends are either hardcore gamer nerds and understand or are otherwise ok enough not to retort to immature violent games of trashing my belongings when arguments flare.
...and even if, people wont do these things if they k n o w for sure that there will be serious consequences should they pull of something like that.
This was a complete accident but was incredibly traumatic and horrible. See photo for reference:
That is my display shelf for my really old models and conversions that do not fit into my cases. I had things like a heavily convert Chaos Giant, my Khorne Warlord on Jugger, 25 Chaos Knights, All of my Skeleton Horsemen, heavily converted Possessed, old 2nd Ed Orks and IG conversions, a huge Grenadier D&D Green Dragon, and a lot more stufff of similar shape / detail.
My wife walked into my game room and (my fault here) I had a bunch of broken toys etc on the floor (I was making terrain). She stepped on something (barefoot) reeled back from the pain, bumped into my display rack, and the entire thing crashed to the floor.
Almost everything was broken to some extent. It took me a couple days to find every missing piece (which included having to clean out everything from under my game table and moving a bookcase and piano) and almost 2 weeks to repair everything.
Some models just aren't the same anymore, but most survived after some repairs. We still speak of this from time to time and it is a "cold chill" shudder moment.
In case you are wondering, that shelf is now permanently affixed to the wall with heavy-duty mounts.
Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:This was a complete accident but was incredibly traumatic and horrible. See photo for reference:
That is my display shelf for my really old models and conversions that do not fit into my cases. I had things like a heavily convert Chaos Giant, my Khorne Warlord on Jugger, 25 Chaos Knights, All of my Skeleton Horsemen, heavily converted Possessed, old 2nd Ed Orks and IG conversions, a huge Grenadier D&D Green Dragon, and a lot more stufff of similar shape / detail.
My wife walked into my game room and (my fault here) I had a bunch of broken toys etc on the floor (I was making terrain). She stepped on something (barefoot) reeled back from the pain, bumped into my display rack, and the entire thing crashed to the floor.
Almost everything was broken to some extent. It took me a couple days to find every missing piece (which included having to clean out everything from under my game table and moving a bookcase and piano) and almost 2 weeks to repair everything.
Some models just aren't the same anymore, but most survived after some repairs. We still speak of this from time to time and it is a "cold chill" shudder moment.
In case you are wondering, that shelf is now permanently affixed to the wall with heavy-duty mounts.
Worst I had was an ex-friend and his girlfriend stealing my bloodthirster when they moved out. Wouldn't admit it, but it disappeared when they did. It was brand new. They only got the body, but it was annoying-I had the wings and arms elsewhere. They also stole a previous roommate's full Tomb King army. I think he was gonna get out of the hobby anyway, but they snagged it and wouldn't return it. And the joke was...the guy isn't allowed to play-his girlfriend forbade him from playing. Idiots much?
timetowaste85 wrote:Worst I had was an ex-friend and his girlfriend stealing my bloodthirster when they moved out. Wouldn't admit it, but it disappeared when they did. It was brand new. They only got the body, but it was annoying-I had the wings and arms elsewhere. They also stole a previous roommate's full Tomb King army. I think he was gonna get out of the hobby anyway, but they snagged it and wouldn't return it. And the joke was...the guy isn't allowed to play-his girlfriend forbade him from playing. Idiots much?
"Let's steal parts for a game you aren't allowed to play anymore. That'll show em!" And yes, they're still together-she demanded a $30,000 engagement ring and an $80,000 wedding. He and I were groomsmen at our mutual best friend's wedding and he told me that. And those are in American dollars, and I'm not exaggerating a single penny
Do any of you find that when you show a finished model to someone they like to hold it, admire it, then subsequently pretend they almost dropped it just to get a rise out of you? People do this to me all the damn time. "Wow that looks really good... WHOOPS!" *make jerky sudden motion with hand as if I almost dropped the model* Then smile about it when they see the look of sheer horror on your face.
Am I the only one who gets subjected to this torment?
Also, I had a friend do that in the car with my brother, who had just finished making a small stone well out of clay - it was painted, flocked, etc. And the guy goes "Oh WHOOPS!" exaggeratedly but then goes "Oh man!" and starts laughing hysterically, as he had ACTUALLY dropped it out the window onto the road. We pulled over and managed to grab the piece before it was run over, but it was chipped badly and needed some repair work.
"Let's steal parts for a game you aren't allowed to play anymore. That'll show em!" And yes, they're still together-she demanded a $30,000 engagement ring and an $80,000 wedding. He and I were groomsmen at our mutual best friend's wedding and he told me that. And those are in American dollars, and I'm not exaggerating a single penny
Proves to me that he is a bigger idiot then her actually.
That or a totally pussywhipped tool. Care to bet who will end up dumping who and taking the house in the process?
TheBrandedOne wrote:I haven't had any terrible accidents, but.
Do any of you find that when you show a finished model to someone they like to hold it, admire it, then subsequently pretend they almost dropped it just to get a rise out of you? People do this to me all the damn time. "Wow that looks really good... WHOOPS!" *make jerky sudden motion with hand as if I almost dropped the model* Then smile about it when they see the look of sheer horror on your face.
Am I the only one who gets subjected to this torment?
ALL the time.
Last time this happened was with my Arachnaroc Spider. I had just finished it the previous evening and brought it to the FLGS. I had it all assembled and painted except that I hadn't glued the spider's legs on the base and tree log, because I had not put grass and stuff to the base yet. Thankfully, no-one dropped it. I still hated it though.
gohkm wrote:Back when I was still living with my parents (in fact, right before I left for university), my mum decided that we needed more room in the house. Without asking me, my models were arbitrarily tossed in the trash.
That was really painful, as the collection contained not just my figs, but also several Airfix model ships and planes that I had spent a long time putting together and painting up.
Ouch thats bad.
My little brother once had to bring 3 things that were important to him to school for "show and tell" one of the things he chose was one of my metal chaplains because he really liked spending time with me and playing 40K with his big brother.
While at school it was knocked off his desk and broken, and then lost or possibly stolen.
He was quite upset; since it was my model and he hadn't asked me to borrow it (I was away at university).
There is a picture that was taken of him with his three special things (now two special things), all the other kids were smiling in their pictures, but he was barely holding back the tears in his. So what was supposed to be a special day for him turned into one of the worst days in his life.
He couldn’t even tell me himself so my mom phoned me instead.
I felt pretty bad for him, and also quite touched that he loved our 40k sessions enough to make it one of his three special things.
Needless to say I completely forgave him and gave him a hug when I saw him next. Finding out that he loved me that much was worth way more than one little metal marine.
Also he later found the chaplain (still broken) in an outer pouch of his backpack! One drop of superglue later and it was back to granting “litany of hate” to my crusader squads and assisting in the killing of his orks.
Your story warmed the cockles of my old, crusty heart.
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TheBrandedOne wrote:I haven't had any terrible accidents, but.
Do any of you find that when you show a finished model to someone they like to hold it, admire it, then subsequently pretend they almost dropped it just to get a rise out of you? People do this to me all the damn time. "Wow that looks really good... WHOOPS!" *make jerky sudden motion with hand as if I almost dropped the model* Then smile about it when they see the look of sheer horror on your face.
Am I the only one who gets subjected to this torment?
Also, I had a friend do that in the car with my brother, who had just finished making a small stone well out of clay - it was painted, flocked, etc. And the guy goes "Oh WHOOPS!" exaggeratedly but then goes "Oh man!" and starts laughing hysterically, as he had ACTUALLY dropped it out the window onto the road. We pulled over and managed to grab the piece before it was run over, but it was chipped badly and needed some repair work.
As I may have mentioned previously/in other threads, I try not to touch other people's models anymore because I generally don't act like I'm going to drop it...I just do. So, I try to be hands-off now.
Eggroll wrote:Wow some of you guys have some crazy women in your lives. Luckily, my gf hasn't done any harm to my minis. The worst thing she's come is threatening to shake up my bits containers and mix all the bits when I'm not at home. I'm somewhat OCD and have all my bits neatly arranged in small containers - she just says that to get a rise outta me.
I was thinking the same... there are some pretty horrific/scarring examples of domestic abuse in this thread...
For my own part, my dad accidentally knocked over a few of my Tyranids a couple years ago. One of them was my metal Hive Tyrant who had been a huge pain in the butt to put together - thankfully he was MUCH easier to glue back together this time!
Also, back when I was getting into the hobby, one of my brothers' friends threw a ball which broke a few of one of my brothers' Riders of Rohan. When asked why he did this he said "sorry I didn't realize they were yours".
Pyriel- wrote:
Dont tell me you guys actually let them get away with this?
Yes and no. I could repair some of the stuff but the next time we saw her we not so nicely escorted off the post at gun point with paperwork banning her from the base for life. A 9mm looks like a sewer pipe when you are looking down the barrel.
Then two years later he dragged 10 random guys (me included) to Topeka for a court order paternity test. I got my revenge when the judge asked us when was the last time we physically saw her. When he found out all of us but one guy hadn't seen her in two years he called her a, "Lying, f'ing b*tch that should never be allow to have children." He ordered DFS to take her kids from her right there. Great moment in legal history in my book. Worth half a company of dead space marines.
I feel sorry for all of you emasculated men who think that this is the way relationships are supposed to go...
I've had some crazy girlfriends in my time -- the drug-using, take-money-out-of-my-wallet type -- but no one has ever contemplated breaking one of my models. Perhaps it's because they all know how utterly unhinged I would become or because I'm very skilled with a blade, but it was never even an idle threat.
All of this just makes me realize how lucky I am to be in a healthy and loving relationship. Seriously guys, you don't have to settle for less. Great women are out there looking for great men. Just be a real man and don't take the crap!
mine stepped on mine accidentally (was airbrushing on the floor and she wasnt wearing her glasses), worst damaged suffered was some chipped primer (un-airbrushed mini thankfully) and the head of a dire avenger popped off, easy fix/no cause for anger or hurt feelings (she was overly-apologetic IMO)
swampyturtle wrote:Worst that ever happened to me was my mom throwing my centerpieces of my tau army including a forge world battle suit off my dresser and then curb stomping all over them my room. 5 battlesuits and a forge world piece gone. Ill admit, I was pretty much in shock at that point. She then went into the computer room and torn my monitor cables out of the CPU and dropped it down the stairs. Before finally she broke my key board over the railing. That was a bad night
Ok, i think there has to be a new rule added to any rulebook.
First Page
"Tell your parents how damn expensive these things are. show them what the hell you are doing, where you put them so they dont throw them away.
Great White wrote:I guess I'm lucky, I only have to deal with a six year old. As long as my models are at least four and a half feet off the ground they're safe.
Until they get a chair to get to them. happened to me.
Dheneb wrote:Second worst is having one of my wraithlords painted pink. With flowers.
Worst thing is having about 1500 points worth of Eldar stolen.
When my buddy first started dark elves, I painted one with a peace sign on the shield, blonde hair with bright blue highlights and he was hopping mad. Told me if he wanted to play with THOSE kinds of elves, he'd use high elves. Also, if you need to rebuild your eldar army, I'm trying to offload guardians and some converted models REALLY cheap. Like dirt cheap.
My wife and mother both broke a Night Goblin Fanatic bending the giant flail on it's chain (the old metal ones)
My son banged a Leman Russ I was repairing so it dried skewed and had to be broken back down and fixed.
My son dropped a Hammerhead, cracking the hull.
My friends cat knocked off a converted Inquisitor, then peed on my army.
My elder daughter snapped the legs and arms off three freshly painted Forge World Crisis Suits.
One of my kids knocked off a partially assembled scratch built Warhound I was working on, returning it to it's component state.
My elder daughter snapped a leg off an Arachnaork Spider (she loves spiders, for some reason).
My younger daughter stole and broke a combat squad of my son's Marines that we'd just finished painting together. He was gutted until I fixed them all and made and painted up his Captain on a Bike model.
One of my girls dumped 3500 points of Grey Knights (the old, metal ones) on the floor after opening there carrying case and knocking it off the pile of cases.
I have five Death Cult Assassins snapped off at the ankle that I have no idea what happened to. I blame the cat.
I should point out that all this stuff is either in my room, locked in a case or, on occasion, on a work bench that's about 4 feet up and towards the back (or at one point even in there own room). It doesn't matter. They will be located and destroyed. Fortunately, my favourite part of the hobby has become buying old, battered models and repairing and converting them, so it's rarely a big deal to repair the damage again. The Forge World suits hurt, though, since they were my first splurge on Forge World. And the Titan brought a tear to my eye.
My cat nocked over one of my army cases onto my friends new space marine tac squad and his captain + a razorback Broke just about all of it, salvaged all of it but took him a wile. I bought him the AOBR set for xmas becuase he wanted to try orks (and I still felt bad).
Che-Vito wrote:Worst thing really was an ex of mine, who wasn't crazy, but naive and made some poor choices that made me decide to cordially end the relationship.
At the time, she had approximately 1500 points of Daemons of mine, and I asked that she mail them back. She said that she would on three different occasions...it never happened.
Mind you, she was not a gamer either.
Here's a hint-break up with them after you get valuable things back. That includes expensive, mostly metal, daemon models If you don't get them back first...consider them a casualty. Sadly.
My ex sold my entire army through e-bay after kicking me out of the house.
She cheated on me during christmass, andwhen I found out kicked me out, demanding i leave some 1000 euros there as 'compensation' for not having anyone with a salary in the house anymore (i was the only one makin money)
Needless to say i refused, because I knew she'd just spend it on 'haunted' internet dolls...
It took me about two weeks to ffind a place to live, and when I went over to collect my belongings they were all sold...
Hurt me more than the breakup did... My SM, my Jade Falcon Lances, my Necromunda gangs... all gone.
But it can always get worse... She refuses to let mesee the little one too...
1. an ex who was living with me, managed to drop a full landspeeder squadron on the floor and smash them to oblivion while I was away.
2. last week, I just finished my shiny new landraider crusader and my gf wanted to take a look. Next thing to do was to start glueing the bits back on it after I picked them from the floor. :(
I'm wondering if this thread shouldn't be labeled "Self Help: What's mine is mine and bitch, if you touch little Abaddon, I'll rip you in half - A table top gamer's guide to fulfilling and non-psychotic relationships."
I've had some self-induced stupidness involving my figs. Had my Valk all done up and ready for a Friday night...smacked her right off the table and onto my nice, cold, UNFORGIVING concrete floor.
Thankfully, no paint damage and it popped apart in like 5 pieces.
May I ask where you find such wierd relationships? And why do you let them all go away with it?
My girlfriend still has a large collection of expensive console games, treasuring them like a dragon. It's her former boyfriend ones and she forbids me to even touch them since they do not belong neither to her nor me.
Max Jet wrote:May I ask where you find such wierd relationships? And why do you let them all go away with it?
My girlfriend still has a large collection of expensive console games, treasuring them like a dragon. It's her former boyfriend ones and she forbids me to even touch them since they do not belong neither to her nor me.
Sorry, why do you let her get away with holding on to an ex's stuff? Perhaps have her give it back? That's pretty weird in my book.
Used to play Fantasy a fair few years back with a friend at my house, simply because I had a large table. Ironically both of us had Lizardmen armies, however he'd gotten lucky with Skink Champions and managed to get the one with the sword raised whereas I had no such joy so had to use the other models.
One of the family cats decided to be...a bit odd. He'd jump onto the table, deliberately pick that ONE model up and walk off with it. He didn't knock anything else over, he didn't damage anything else. He decided to just steal that one skink. Over. And over. And over again.
My wife threw one of my Rhinos after me in an argument. Well it hit the wall and broke apart.
We fixed it together after the dust settled.
And our two lovely cats love my marines and Flames of War infantry stands. Whenever they can, they try to play with them... and they drink my painting water, which lefts me sniggering.
So, one time I painted up an US Infantry Platoon, but forgot them on my desk. Night came and went and when I came back, one stand in the platoon was missing and not to be found anywhere near.
My wife found the stand 2 weeks later behind the cabinet with scratches all over. She came over to me, showing the stand and saying:
"You know, he should be called Private Ryan. He survived 2 weeks behind enemy lines, chased around by 2 big german cats." These are the moments I really love her for and the stand got a nametag
MauS wrote:My ex sold my entire army through e-bay after kicking me out of the house.
She cheated on me during christmass, andwhen I found out kicked me out, demanding i leave some 1000 euros there as 'compensation' for not having anyone with a salary in the house anymore (i was the only one makin money)
Needless to say i refused, because I knew she'd just spend it on 'haunted' internet dolls...
It took me about two weeks to ffind a place to live, and when I went over to collect my belongings they were all sold...
Hurt me more than the breakup did... My SM, my Jade Falcon Lances, my Necromunda gangs... all gone.
But it can always get worse... She refuses to let mesee the little one too...
My girl decided that my brand new Inquisitor Coteaz model (this one) looked like he was wearing a feather boa. So one day when I got home from work he was painted up in drag, hot pinks and greens and some quite hideous makeup.
Max Jet wrote:May I ask where you find such wierd relationships? And why do you let them all go away with it?
My girlfriend still has a large collection of expensive console games, treasuring them like a dragon. It's her former boyfriend ones and she forbids me to even touch them since they do not belong neither to her nor me.
Sorry, why do you let her get away with holding on to an ex's stuff? Perhaps have her give it back? That's pretty weird in my book.
It's expensive stuff and she is occassionaly reminding him (living 400km away doesn't make it easy to just drop by and pick it up). I wouldn't want someone to throw hundreds of € of my stuff away so I encourage her to keep it till the deadline. Isn't that a very fair and mature thing to do?
My girlfriend hates the hobby, but tolerates it because there are more important things in life than getting wound up about me painting toy soldiers, plus they keep me out of trouble and within conversation distance of her (she watches the soaps, I paint my minis on the coffee table).
Video games are a different story altogether (if for no reason other than she doesn't get time to spend with me when I'm up in my nerd-cave).
I can honestly say I don't think she would consider breaking anything of minis. She's much too rational for that, even if she hates the hobby.
A few people asked how do we let then get away with it. Well in my case if I made a fuss about it alot of my friends would have gotten into serious trouble. Everyone from the gate guards, the barracks cq, my neighbor and even my unit commander for not changing the code to the barracks front door like he should of every couple weeks. For me it wasn't worth it. She got hers in the end and that was worth the wait.
Side note, that army a few years latter after being repaired was broke in half and sold. The other half given to a poor, gamer at my flgs because he couldn't afford to replace his army after his apartment building burnt down.
Love this thread. Makes me glad I'm safely married however. I do have a thing about my wife and daughter leaving things lying about. It's to late for my wife I think but I figure if I keep after my kid I can break the habit. Finally sunk in not to just leave her shoes and coat on the floor just in the door. I do have a saying though. Pick your stuff up or I will. And you don't want me too. (evil dad grin)
Yes and no. I could repair some of the stuff but the next time we saw her we not so nicely escorted off the post at gun point with paperwork banning her from the base for life. A 9mm looks like a sewer pipe when you are looking down the barrel.
Then two years later he dragged 10 random guys (me included) to Topeka for a court order paternity test. I got my revenge when the judge asked us when was the last time we physically saw her. When he found out all of us but one guy hadn't seen her in two years he called her a, "Lying, f'ing b*tch that should never be allow to have children." He ordered DFS to take her kids from her right there. Great moment in legal history in my book. Worth half a company of dead space marines.
Damn you are like my new hero lol
I feel sorry for all of you emasculated men who think that this is the way relationships are supposed to go...
I've had some crazy girlfriends in my time -- the drug-using, take-money-out-of-my-wallet type -- but no one has ever contemplated breaking one of my models. Perhaps it's because they all know how utterly unhinged I would become or because I'm very skilled with a blade, but it was never even an idle threat.
All of this just makes me realize how lucky I am to be in a healthy and loving relationship. Seriously guys, you don't have to settle for less. Great women are out there looking for great men. Just be a real man and don't take the crap!
Cannot be pointed out enough how true those words are.
I'm kinda shocked that there's so many people with horror stories here (though of course this is the internet and we shall never know how many are true). Apparently I'm rather good at picking mentally stable wenches.
As for the worst thing my friends have done to my models. Well, in games they always shoot the best/newly painted ones first.
I have 2 stepnephews that think my models are "cool as hell". I don't mind showing them to them, but I repeatedly tell them that they're very expensive. They're also not allowed in my room whenever I'm not around.
This next story isn't about a mini breaking, it's more along the lines of embarassing/strange. I recently picked up some Grey Hunters and a couple Rhinos and my friend, an Eldar player, wanted to try his hand at assembling something from another army. He built one of my Rhinos in about 10 minutes, without looking at instructions, and showed me that the Rhinos I had already built were assembled incorrectly.
I think my girlfriend bounced a dog toy onto my workbench once... Purely an accident. She realizes that hobby stuff (and side work) keep me happy and sane and are way better than going out to bars all the time.
I'm kinda shocked that there's so many people with horror stories here (though of course this is the internet and we shall never know how many are true). Apparently I'm rather good at picking mentally stable wenches.
As for the worst thing my friends have done to my models. Well, in games they always shoot the best/newly painted ones first.
'Blooding', I think its called, if your newest unit is always the one that gets killed first.
TiB wrote:
As for the worst thing my friends have done to my models. Well, in games they always shoot the best/newly painted ones first.
I do this-my friend was incredibly proud of his brand new, Deathwing painted Land raider Crusader that hadn't yet seen a game. Needless to say, my sternguard dropped right next to it and 5 combi-meltas later, it was molten slag, turn one. It threw off the rest of his game and I squashed him. Do I feel guilty? Nah...pull up your big-boy pants and finish the game
I haven't really had anything horrible happen, but my GF, now wifey, was helping me bring in my nurgle army into the house and she tripped and my landraider flew out (all slow mo like) about 8 feet in the air and landed on the concrete. Smashed to bits.. She was really sorry, but in the end Nurgle can always be rebuilt : P
Bat Manuel wrote:Nothing's ever happened to my stuff, but .....A friend of mines girlfriend took an army of his, put it in a box, shook it up, then sprayed green paint all over it.
My Wife wouldn't do anything to my stuff. She would just run me over.
However,
When I first procured the wiener dogs I had ahabit of using a breakfast tray and painting on the tile in the front room. Paint a little, pet dog on either side of me. However wiener dogs are jealous.
-Rodney the weiner drank all the paint out of a bottle and ran off with two chaos knights NOM NOM when I stepped off to grab some coffee.
-TBone was displeased that I was not paying enough attention and throwing the ball enugyh whilst painting. TO express this he wattled over and peed on the tray, the minis in the tray, the mini I was holding, and me, all the while barking at me. You don't tick off TBone the Terror.
I laughed so hard I nearly choked on my life saver....
swampyturtle wrote:Worst that ever happened to me was my mom throwing my centerpieces of my tau army including a forge world battle suit off my dresser and then curb stomping all over them my room. 5 battlesuits and a forge world piece gone. Ill admit, I was pretty much in shock at that point. She then went into the computer room and torn my monitor cables out of the CPU and dropped it down the stairs. Before finally she broke my key board over the railing. That was a bad night
Christ, WTF did you do to make your mom lose it like that? If you didn't do anything, then you might want to talk to someone in a position to help you because your mom has anger issues.
Also, the worst thing that ever happened to my army, was getting my ass handed to me against some Necron Destroyer Spam. Aside from that, I keep a close guard on them.
However, my dad did throw away my entire collection of first gen Transformers and Voltron away when I left for school. That stung a little.
swampyturtle wrote:Worst that ever happened to me was my mom throwing my centerpieces of my tau army including a forge world battle suit off my dresser and then curb stomping all over them my room. 5 battlesuits and a forge world piece gone. Ill admit, I was pretty much in shock at that point. She then went into the computer room and torn my monitor cables out of the CPU and dropped it down the stairs. Before finally she broke my key board over the railing. That was a bad night
Christ, WTF did you do to make your mom lose it like that? If you didn't do anything, then you might want to talk to someone in a position to help you because your mom has anger issues.
Also, the worst thing that ever happened to my army, was getting my ass handed to me against some Necron Destroyer Spam. Aside from that, I keep a close guard on them.
However, my dad did throw away my entire collection of first gen Transformers and Voltron away when I left for school. That stung a little.
kronk wrote:Nothing. I wouldn't be around someone that was so flying rodent gak crazy they would intentionally break my things.
This.
I have to wonder where you people meet these girls. Then I have to wonder how you let them so far into your life that they have knowledge of and access to your stuff before you know then well enough to have discovered how crazy they are.
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swampyturtle wrote:Worst that ever happened to me was my mom throwing my centerpieces of my tau army including a forge world battle suit off my dresser and then curb stomping all over them my room. 5 battlesuits and a forge world piece gone. Ill admit, I was pretty much in shock at that point. She then went into the computer room and torn my monitor cables out of the CPU and dropped it down the stairs. Before finally she broke my key board over the railing. That was a bad night
I would LOVE to know her side of the story. I'm achingly curious to know what actions had occurred that day to inspire her to believe that much destruction was an appropriate action. Either she's crazy or you were a very bad boy.
MauS wrote:My ex sold my entire army through e-bay after kicking me out of the house.
She cheated on me during christmass, andwhen I found out kicked me out, demanding i leave some 1000 euros there as 'compensation' for not having anyone with a salary in the house anymore (i was the only one makin money)
Needless to say i refused, because I knew she'd just spend it on 'haunted' internet dolls...
It took me about two weeks to ffind a place to live, and when I went over to collect my belongings they were all sold...
Hurt me more than the breakup did... My SM, my Jade Falcon Lances, my Necromunda gangs... all gone.
But it can always get worse... She refuses to let mesee the little one too...
Sorry dude, just trying to figure out where the its your fault....
Nope nothing. Shoulda said
"Wait, wait, wait; YOU cheated on ME, and I get kicked out? What the ?"
Worst that happened to me was my cat knocked off my freshly painted metzl Njal Stormcaller and finecast Astaroth (painted as a wolf lord). Astaroth's axe snapped half way which was a pain to glue again and Njal's raven broke off which was pretty easy to fix. Also i got pretty angry once and threw my freshly painted dreadnought at my wardobe and it smashed and I lost its leg.
Several years ago, an ex girlfriend raged at me for spending $150 on a Warriors of Chaos battalion for my new army. She said that it was a waste of money to spend on little plastic toys that are for little kids.
Coming from the girl who it was nothing for her to spend $175 on one card for her YuGiOh! deck. She did not play the game, just had a deck.
This thread is filled with weird stuff. I don't understand why one would stay with a person who is willing to break things intentionally when angry. Though I certainly don't understand willingness to use violence if that were to happen to ones own models either.
I have only two things that come to my mind.
First was rather longer time ago while I was still living with my mom. My older sister and some other people were visiting while I was away and she (doesn't really know anything about gaming) gave some of my "toy tanks" for playing for kids. Luckily my mom noticed it a little later and picked them straight away from kids. There wasn't much damage done, merely little gluing.
Second was then my paint pots where in drawer where I keep my "currently being painted" stuff (easily accessible). I come home from work and my wife tells my that our daughter got hold of them and painted a lot of stuff pink, including her fingers and face. Lesson learned. First, keep the paints out of 3 year olds reach. Second, teach where you cannot stick your hands if daddy isn't around.
Trasvi wrote:My girl decided that my brand new Inquisitor Coteaz model (this one) looked like he was wearing a feather boa. So one day when I got home from work he was painted up in drag, hot pinks and greens and some quite hideous makeup.
This thread is abou the worst thing that has happened to your models. This, clearly, is awesome.
It's all fun and games tell you make her mad. I wouldn't leave my stuff at a girlfriends house just cause you never know. Guys and girls are different. Sounds like joking to us but to them it's half joke and half serious
About 8 years ago I had been painting a Gargantuan Squiggoth. I was working on it for about a month. I had just finished his face. My wife was mad at me for something I can't recall. but she took black spray primer, and blasted the face.
I came downstairs and was all set to work on the rest of the model and I saw this dark side of the moon on his face. It took me 8 hours to fix that.
I'd probably be in jail right now if she was home when I discovered what she did. Joking. And yes we are still married. :(
I'll keep it short but one of my exes took about 9000 points of my fully painted iron warriors models ranged from 2nd to 4th edition. I don't know if she trashed them or sold them for one of her "habits". But ya it was all gone.
No offence is meant but I'm surprised you married her after that, personally I'd have taken that to be a slap in my face and would have removed her from my life. Doing that sort of damage to something which took so long would make me very piffed off.
Had a feller wave a knife in my face because I accidently put a dent in his drum kit (I was pished at a party and got pushed onto it).
He my have been right to be that angry, I think I was prretty dismissive of it since it was his tosser mate that pushed me but mostly it was because I saw no value in the drumkit and dissmissed it out of hand.
The ladies might tolerate the hobby but i'll wager few hold much value in it, especially since we tend not to tell them how much we spent on ickle plastic figgies.
Women (and men too for that matter) who respond to conflict in this manner, in my opinion, are displaying tendencies that will eventually impact every aspect of your life with them.
Essentially what I'm seeing are people who have no respect for another's property. No investment in the happiness or well being of their relationships, and a level of casual amorality usually associated with mildly psychotic personalities.
Continuing to be with someone like that is bad decision making.
Unless, of course, you yourself are similar in personality, in which case, you more or less are perfect for each other.
If it were me, I'd pack my stuff the same day, and never speak to that person again.
matphat wrote:Women (and men too for that matter) who respond to conflict in this manner, in my opinion, are displaying tendencies that will eventually impact every aspect of your life with them.
The worst thing my girlfriend has done with me and wargaming is bought a wraith for me before I could get my wallet out, oh yeah my girlfriend is awesome!!!
My ex however was a stupid, stuck up, moronic that unknown to me had said that she would like to have stood on every model I had so I would stop playing....... some people are just.........well who knows!!
Saldiven wrote:
I have to wonder where you people meet these girls. Then I have to wonder how you let them so far into your life that they have knowledge of and access to your stuff before you know then well enough to have discovered how crazy they are.
I suspect most of these people are children who are still too stupid to know any better.
My roommates went to a great amount of effort take all 60 of my fire-warriors and a dozen vespids and put them in individual icecube sized jello molds! Also a hammerhead in a cake sized jello mold.
Aside from a few lost helmet antenna and a new paint job needed on the vespid, the damage was minimal.
shimraa wrote:My roommates went to a great amount of effort take all 60 of my fire-warriors and a dozen vespids and put them in individual icecube sized jello molds! Also a hammerhead in a cake sized jello mold.
Aside from a few lost helmet antenna and a new paint job needed on the vespid, the damage was minimal.
I had a lone Termagant some how manage to find it's way on to my couch from my work station (must have been scouting for biomasss). I only discovered that it was there when my girlfriend got up to answer the phone. She didn't know that she was sitting on it, (not sure how.. I mean, wouldn't you notice something like that?) she felt terrible about it and apologized but it really wasn't a big deal. He took no real damage besides the ankle had nearly severed, making him resemble a motorcycle that was laying down during cornering. Other than that just some of the glue bonds broke.
A friend and I were playing apocolypse, the first game I got to field the stompa that I had recently assembled. On occasion, we drink tequila while we play. The stompa performed like a champ, psycho dakka blasting a large number of his bloodthirsters and pretty much winning me the game. Afterwards, as I'm loading orks into the trunk of my car, I hear what can only be the sound of my stompa bouncing off of his porch steps (large, hollow plastic models make a distinct sound when hitting concrete). He had attempted to balance the stompa on a box he was carrying... I guess it fell off as he got to the stairs. Needless to say we almost found all the pieces, although it was dark out, nothing more glue couldn't fix. We've had many games since then where I've threatened to punt his models across the lawn
A couple of years back I had just put the final touches on a brand new pre-release box set of the fellowship of the ring kit, that was for a special GW painting competition. I come home from school to not only find that every single model i had just painted was now given a nice ink wash of gryphone sepia ink. My entire 2k darkangels army was also inkwashed and smashed into millions of tiny pieces. Apparently my sister was babysitting one of her friends dogs, and it just happened to be a 150+ pound st bernard, that was also diabetic.... Some how she neglected to give it its appropriate medication and it had an epic meltdown ... which resulted in it some how breaking through my bedroom door then jumping about on my painting desk and destroying everything i had, including eating 3 bottles of ink ( that can't be healthy) the dog owner felt bad so she gave me 10$ .......
Not my wife, but my small ones!
2 boys, 5 & 3.
1 girl, 20m.
They all love to play with my armors, my IG army. My boys like to watch my while I paint or convert or build. I have to Lemans that I am building. I am almost done with them, I get home from work and they are out with broken turrets or what ever. My Vendetta has incured the skills of my daughter. It has been under her walker, with a wing here and there, guns over there, landing gear yonder, etc etc.
After priming a lot of fire warriors 24 or so. My wife put them out side because it was a nice sunny day, our dogs must have thought they were cool and knocked them off the table she had set them on, I was only able to ever find 4 of them.
nothing, my wife and I have a solid understanding in regards to my models. half the stuff within arms reach is commission work anyways, so she never touches anything.
notprop wrote:Or we take our toys too seriously Duce......?
Had a feller wave a knife in my face because I accidently put a dent in his drum kit (I was pished at a party and got pushed onto it).
He my have been right to be that angry, I think I was prretty dismissive of it since it was his tosser mate that pushed me but mostly it was because I saw no value in the drumkit and dissmissed it out of hand.
The ladies might tolerate the hobby but i'll wager few hold much value in it, especially since we tend not to tell them how much we spent on ickle plastic figgies.
Considering a piece of the drum kit likely costs more than most people's entire armies, yes, he was right to be more than a little annoyed (skins can range from $40 to $200 depending how serious they are which I'm assuming you dented, the actual kit part itself could vary from $40 second hand into the thousands for 1 piece).
Some serious psychos in this thread though, anyone that does violence when they're angry is someone you want to get some help for.
No discernible relationships to speak of yet, mostly due to the fact I don't actively seek them (not because I think I'd fail, I'm just like that. Been the same with mates too. Maybe because during primary school my best friends for 7 years in a row literally moved interstate after a year, every single one, so I figured 'ahh screw it'). Worst that's happened to my minis is school self 8 years ago doing a horrible job on my crons Although I am quickly rectifying that as I recently got back into W40k (coincidentally the same month the newcrons came out without me realising!)
Some of you guys have had insane women in your lives...
The worst i had was i was gluing some necron warriors together and they were on the coffee table drying when she moved one of them to make room for her glass of water and the torso fell off the legs. She was mortified and thought she completely ruined it and couldnt stop appologizing... I should have probably milked her apology more but i just laughed and reset the model and let it dry since it was plastic glue.
Think she knows better than to touch my computer, models, tv or xbox cause i wouldnt put up with a tantrum like that if she wrecked my models and id just kick her out
My fiance is the kind of girl that likes geeky things. I got her playing Magic with me, and she regularly beats me in games. Warhammer, she isn't so into. She likes how it looks but doesn't understand what's going on when I play despite my explanations. Anyway, she made an effort to try and share the hobby with me by greenstuffing some "snakes" to my weirdboy model to make him into Zogwort because I'd been talking about converting him.
Let's just say that she's an amazing girl, but she isn't very artistically inclined. Anyway, I still used the model in a few recent games. I got questions and guys laughing at it, but I'm oddly proud of the badly sculpted serpents.
My girlfriend is perfect. Never thought I'd say that about a girl, but there is no better term. Shes known I love 40k from the start, and she actually really seems to like chaos. All I really do is chaos (or CSM pre-heresy) anyhow. Shes even got her own small army of CSM now. I hate it when she paints them because shes in college for art, and honestly is the best damn artist I know, so naturaly anything she touches is far better than anything I could do. As far as worst things.. uuuh My cousin dropped my Ultraforge Greater Wardemon (I think thats what the notabloodthirster is called) and his arms popped off, but an easy fix. And you guys really need to realise that girls breaking your stuff to get back at you is a very bad sign. I've been in a really bad relationship before, and yeah it starts off small like that, but it will only get worse.
The worts thing anyone has done to my army is buy me figs from a different army.
but a friend left his models on a windowsill to dry, I guess someone must have opened the window and, uh , well acidents,openwindows,models on the windowsill, thread about WH40K accidents so guess what happened.
I just remembered. A certain girlfriend of mine bought me an Epidemius for my birthday a few months after I sold my Nurgle Daemon army. It's still sitting in my closet, and I'm debating what to do with it. I'm thinking he could be a Beast of Nurgle for BB that I could splash with my chaos team, if I can just find a way to get him to fit on the small base.... I really appreciated the thought and that she was paying attention to what I did fwiw.
my girlfriend is pretty cool with the 40k thing. She calls me her "adorable little nerd" and puts up with all my shenanigans. Really the worst I have to deal with is from my parents and siblings who to this day call it "toehammer" for god knows what reason.
warhawkstriker wrote:my girlfriend is pretty cool with the 40k thing. She calls me her "adorable little nerd" and puts up with all my shenanigans. Really the worst I have to deal with is from my parents and siblings who to this day call it "toehammer" for god knows what reason.
Why 'war' was replaced with 'toe', we shall never know...
Worst thing: Well, nothing, we have been married 11+ years so, she doesn't mess with them at all. Now, most interesting, can't go there without getting too graphic or lewd.
This wasn't a friend, but someone I met on the street. My local gaming store at the time was only two doors down from a bar. This was in a college town, right off of campus. As we were leaving the store one night a semi-drunk trio of idiots began to taunt us. One thought it would be funny to kick my large tackelbox of Chaos Marines out of my hands.
Needless to say, attempting to ruin thousands of dollars of property of a 6'5" tall, 300 pound guy with 8 guys backing him up is NOT a good idea. Is soon as I saw what had happened I flipped out and acted in violence for the only time in my adult life. I threw one punch, which by some miracle caught the guy in the temple and knocked him out.
I freeked out and got the heck out of the area. About five minutes later while drving in my car I looked over at my friend and came tot he shocking realization that I had just one-punch KOed a guy.
Holy crap...I had no idea women could be so crazy and destructive when it come to little models and their owners. I don't know if I want a gf anymore!
I had a couple of friends over and one of them (the fat one) accidentally sat of my Deff Dred that I had painted up for a contest a couple of weekends ago (it got 1st place ). It is okay now.
This is one scary thread. When i was in my teens and i had a really nice collection of citadel fantasty minatures (the early 80's). My whole collection and paints were given away by my brother to his girlfriends brother. I can only assume it was so failed atempt to progess his relationship to the next stage... I never got them back either and he didnt get to the next stage with her
These days its just the cats stealing them away and my clumsiness.... Oh they drink the paint water too.
brainscan wrote:This is one scary thread. When i was in my teens and i had a really nice collection of citadel fantasty minatures (the early 80's). My whole collection and paints were given away by my brother to his girlfriends brother. I can only assume it was so failed atempt to progess his relationship to the next stage... I never got them back either and he didnt get to the next stage with her
These days its just the cats stealing them away and my clumsiness.... Oh they drink the paint water too.
What is it with cats and paintwater anyway? If I forget to empty that out, later, I have to clean up what ever water got spilled.
Howard A Treesong wrote:Crikey, you could have killed him!
That's what happens when you mess with someones models.
Manslaughter?
A frightening number of people are killed by only 1 punch, or severely injured for life. I greatly hope he found out what happened to the guy and/or called an ambulance for him at the very least.
"The Wanderers? That sounds uber gay? What you do take that out of a book? Peth no imagination."
-.-
I then walked out of the building screamed at the top of my lungs and walked back in refreshed.
Yeah so, I was engaged to this very pretty and sexy woman with a phd in chem. I came home to see all of my 40k armies being melted down in the fire pit (all {15} of them, painted and the lowest around 5k points) and my birth certificate and my passport and my diplomas and my childhood pictures and my tax returns for the last 10 years and the titles to my cars and ...
Yeah, that was a very bad day. The next day she tried to kill herself.
My buddy ryan lives with his dad. At age 23 your dad wants you to do something with himself. So when he decited to paint / assemble his warhound Titan instead of look for a job. His dad the next day Shot it with a 9m.
evancich wrote:Yeah so, I was engaged to this very pretty and sexy woman with a phd in chem. I came home to see all of my 40k armies being melted down in the fire pit (all {15} of them, painted and the lowest around 5k points) and my birth certificate and my passport and my diplomas and my childhood pictures and my tax returns for the last 10 years and the titles to my cars and ...
Yeah, that was a very bad day. The next day she tried to kill herself.
notprop wrote:Or we take our toys too seriously Duce......?
Had a feller wave a knife in my face because I accidently put a dent in his drum kit (I was pished at a party and got pushed onto it).
He my have been right to be that angry, I think I was prretty dismissive of it since it was his tosser mate that pushed me but mostly it was because I saw no value in the drumkit and dissmissed it out of hand.
The ladies might tolerate the hobby but i'll wager few hold much value in it, especially since we tend not to tell them how much we spent on ickle plastic figgies.
Not really but its the principle of the action... knowing i like them and still going and ruining them. its kind of like smashing an xbox because she hates it... both require decent sums of money to purchase and thus destroying them shows me she's not the girl for me
Me and my wife have an ... "understanding". She does her thing [pets] I do my thing. If she ever wrecks my models ... its on like donkey kong. there will be a small case of "armageddon" in dayton ohio.
Since I don't have any mini horror stories, I'll share one of my other collectable horror stories.
I collected comics when I was a kid. This was during the late 70s, early 80's. I collected a number of titles that I thought were "awesome" including the Xmen, Conan (B&W Marvel version), The original Ninja Turtles (B&W), MoonKnight, Spiderman, Etc..
Fast forward twenty five years, and they are all packed up in the storage shed behind the house in a locked chest. I was keeping them because I thought either I could give them to MY kids when I have some, or if they didn't seem interested, I could sell the lot for a few bucks to add to the college fund.
Last time I went home, I thought I'd give them a look, to see how things were holding up, and they are gone. The whole chest was gone.
I mentioned it to my dad, who had never said a word to me about it before that day. Turns out, my herion addict brother who literally lives in a shack out in the woods, had taken them, and...you guessed it...sold them for herion.
As if I already had enough reasons to never speak to him again.
Lesson learned though. Never store anything I want to keep back home.
I just remembered that back in the day (read early 90s) a friend and I played a 250 point game of 40k with "fireplace rules". That is to say that if your guy died in game he went into the pit, never to be seen from again. After that fateful game I converted an eldar phantom titan from epic to represent my Kingsford (a brand of charcoal) Clan Eldar. The titan had a little chefs hat, a BBQ fork in his close combat fist, and half of a foam ball stuck into his pulsar painted like a BBQ pit. Those were the days.
i had a little discussion about "hobby spaces" with my brother.
We were 20 (me) and 18 (him) ,and usually everything ended with some fight.That day,i throw his softair stuff from the 3th floor of my house directly in the garden.
He used a baseball bat that we had (called "the argument") on my Ultrasmurfs.
EDIT:single swing.i stoped him before the second,but damage was done on Rhinos & OOP devastators.
dadde wrote:i had a little discussion about "hobby spaces" with my brother.
We were 20 (me) and 18 (him) ,and usually everything ended with some fight.That day,i throw his softair stuff from the 3th floor of my house directly in the garden.
He used a baseball bat that we had (called "the argument") on my Ultrasmurfs.
EDIT:single swing.i stoped him before the second,but damage was done on Rhinos & OOP devastators.
swampyturtle wrote:Worst that ever happened to me was my mom throwing my centerpieces of my tau army including a forge world battle suit off my dresser and then curb stomping all over them my room. 5 battlesuits and a forge world piece gone. Ill admit, I was pretty much in shock at that point. She then went into the computer room and torn my monitor cables out of the CPU and dropped it down the stairs. Before finally she broke my key board over the railing. That was a bad night
evancich wrote:Yeah so, I was engaged to this very pretty and sexy woman with a phd in chem. I came home to see all of my 40k armies being melted down in the fire pit (all {15} of them, painted and the lowest around 5k points) and my birth certificate and my passport and my diplomas and my childhood pictures and my tax returns for the last 10 years and the titles to my cars and ...
Yeah, that was a very bad day. The next day she tried to kill herself.
Was she okay afterwards. Is she okay now? I am actually damn deeply concerned. That's one of the scariest things I have ever heard...
evancich wrote:Yeah so, I was engaged to this very pretty and sexy woman with a phd in chem. I came home to see all of my 40k armies being melted down in the fire pit (all {15} of them, painted and the lowest around 5k points) and my birth certificate and my passport and my diplomas and my childhood pictures and my tax returns for the last 10 years and the titles to my cars and ...
Yeah, that was a very bad day. The next day she tried to kill herself.
Was she okay afterwards. Is she okay now? I am actually damn deeply concerned. That's one of the scariest things I have ever heard...
My cats like to thief my Tau drone bases and bury them under the bean bags or couch. Little buggers. My mother also threw a pile of my freshly washed undergarments onto my painting board. Paints and Tau everywhere -__-'
Zydragon wrote:My cats like to thief my Tau drone bases and bury them under the bean bags or couch. Little buggers. My mother also threw a pile of my freshly washed undergarments onto my painting board. Paints and Tau everywhere -__-'
I have had several incidents with my models over the years with my daughter...
My first Valkyrie has gone through some acrobatics from when my daughter was 3. I just gotten it painted up and left it at my computer desk and I went into my bedroom to get ready for guests. She decided it would be nice if she would show it around the house to everyone. So, she picked it up went around the living room and then she made it to the bedroom and tripped with it right in from of me and it flew about a don't know about 3 feet. One of the wings came off. I fixed it later tho so I guess it was alright.
Another incident was with one of my IG sentinels. I just gotten it painted up and was happy with it. Well when I was taking a break and watching TV. Somehow she managed to get into my paints and decided one part of it needed to be blood red.
She seems to like the color red because she also painted a completely built HWT (unprimed tho) blood red as well once too.
Of course I got a little angry with her when she got into my things, but I get over it cause I love her and all. She also likes to build and paint with daddy so it's all fine with me.
I've had 2 figures become dog treats but puppies eat everything. I ended up getting rid of the puppy because he was getting to aggressive with my daughter tho.
...and to TBH I do worry sometimes my girlfriend will break my models sometimes with some of the fights we have.
Years ago my girlfriend got pissed at me and threatened my model planes. I told her I'd do to her whatever she did to my models. After she set my 1/72 scale Stuka on fire I kidnapped her from a bar, tied her up in my basement and...
Actually, I shouldn't say that story, it happened to the wrong kind of model. You mean wargaming models, right?
I frequently break my orks as I transport them. I'm kind of cheap and I carry 3000 points of orks, including a stompa in a small carrier and a reusable grocery bag. Little dids and doodads come off but oh well, I've got lots of glue and it's orky to fall apart and get put back together. The worst fall-apart I had was when the stompa's gun came off. You can still see the shiny blob of dried glue if you look hard enough
As for models that she owns, she left a new Finecast Canis Wolfborn that I gave her as a gift bounce around her car's trunk for a few weeks. When I found it it was missing the tail and all of the wolf claws. Now it looks like a weird bear with a dual powerfist marine riding it.
I forgot one of my old ones-a gf three years ago put her feet on my coffe table and kicked all my converted plaguebearers onto the floor. No apology. I called her out on her lack of respect for my stuff (she did it again on the dresser with her perfume bottles, knocking my stuff over behind the dresser) and she flipped out about how she was such a disrespectful person and didn't deserve to have anyone and threatened to go cut herself (pretty sure she actually did-on her legs). The models were only a small part of leaving her...did I mention she was certifiable??
timetowaste85 wrote:I forgot one of my old ones-a gf three years ago put her feet on my coffe table and kicked all my converted plaguebearers onto the floor. No apology. I called her out on her lack of respect for my stuff (she did it again on the dresser with her perfume bottles, knocking my stuff over behind the dresser) and she flipped out about how she was such a disrespectful person and didn't deserve to have anyone and threatened to go cut herself (pretty sure she actually did-on her legs). The models were only a small part of leaving her...did I mention she was certifiable??
I don't have one to tell about a significant other but about 5 years ago my dad decided that I was too old to be playing with plastic toys and through around 2500 points of nids in the trash
I should go trash-hunting one day. I might get lucky and uncover thousands of points worth of minis! All these horror stories make me nervous. I'm going to go build an electric fence around my orks now.
For whatever reason, every person in the world that doesn't play an army with large models has no conceivable idea of how to handle large models. You'd think things like "pick it up by the thickest part/near the center of gravity" would be common sense.
But I swear, every time someone has touched my Bloodthirster or Lord of Change (to "help" me move it into assault, or changing tables at a tournament, or being Lashed, whatever) they pick them up by a damned wing. Because those things are just so fun to reattach.
Same thing with the recent-edition metal Bloodcrushers--how in the hell would it occur to any functional human being that the proper way to pick up a Bloodcrusher is by grabbing the rider?
It's as if touching metal models instantly forces 90% of the 40k populace to suffer from a temporary, very specific, and very intense form of stupidity.
Related note: After only playing Daemons for years, I've been playing Necrons since the new Codex, and the very first time someone picked up one of my Monoliths, they inexplicably did so by grabbing the "arc" that protrudes over the top. Deja vu on that.
DJ3 wrote:For whatever reason, every person in the world that doesn't play an army with large models has no conceivable idea of how to handle large models. You'd think things like "pick it up by the thickest part/near the center of gravity" would be common sense.
But I swear, every time someone has touched my Bloodthirster or Lord of Change (to "help" me move it into assault, or changing tables at a tournament, or being Lashed, whatever) they pick them up by a damned wing. Because those things are just so fun to reattach.
Same thing with the recent-edition metal Bloodcrushers--how in the hell would it occur to any functional human being that the proper way to pick up a Bloodcrusher is by grabbing the rider?
It's as if touching metal models instantly forces 90% of the 40k populace to suffer from a temporary, very specific, and very intense form of stupidity.
Related note: After only playing Daemons for years, I've been playing Necrons since the new Codex, and the very first time someone picked up one of my Monoliths, they inexplicably did so by grabbing the "arc" that protrudes over the top. Deja vu on that.
The Bloodthirster one I kind of get. But the other two? Those do not make any sense whatsoever
Didn't happen to me, but when my friend and I got out of the hobby for a few years, he gave his brother about 2000 points worth of Tau, 2000 worth of Imperial Fists and 2000 worth of Night Lords. He only kept his Black Templars and a small amount of Eldar his brother gave him to paint.
When we got back into the hobby, he found out his brother had thrown out those 3 2000 point armies.
I was more upset than him. I wanted to throw my new Nids at his Tau.
DJ3 wrote:For whatever reason, every person in the world that doesn't play an army with large models has no conceivable idea of how to handle large models.
Man. I'm used to playing with people who are absolutely terrified of damaging anyone else's models, and a lot of the time touching anyone's models is prefaced with "Would you like me to..." or "Do you mind if I...".
Fortunately though, most Inquisitor players have learnt the knack, but it's kind of funny when you can spot the people who aren't used to resin models by their huge overestimate of the model's weight.
The only spare plug in my room is directly over where I keep all my 40k stuff, she says to me "is it ok if I use this plug socket for my hair dryer? I don't want to knock off any of your toys" I foolishly reply with "yeah, that's fine" it wasn't until she knocked off 20 pig iron kolony rebels with precariously glued on las rifle ends and 6 iron warriors with balanced and unglued weapons (some of witch were never seen again) I agree it was my fault for being too lazy to unplug something and use a socket further away but the look on her face was priceless, and I'm sure mine was too lol
All of the accidental damage I get, but with the psycho ex's, come on guys. The golden rule is don't stick your in crazy. Fortunately I haven't had any of my crazy ex's (even though it's the rule we all do it) go after my models and my current gf wouldn't do anything to them.
So this is an interesting one, second hand story as it occurred between two friends of mine.
My Daemonhunter-obsessed friend had been collecting a grey knights army for years, and had around 5000 points or so of perfectly filed and smoothed, shiny metal grey knights. He took exceptional care to convert and shape them, green stuff them, pose, and base them. When the New GK codex finally appeared, our mutual friend thought he'd do something really nice for the Daemonhunter, and took his entire collection of minis into his school where he had (he was a teacher) all of his students paint the models over the course of a week, and presented them to him with a copy of the new codex as a birthday present. Really thoughtful. I don't think they used model paints, or brushes, from the way it was described, they were mostly finger painting. They don't do birthdays for each other anymore.
junk wrote:So this is an interesting one, second hand story as it occurred between two friends of mine.
My Daemonhunter-obsessed friend had been collecting a grey knights army for years, and had around 5000 points or so of perfectly filed and smoothed, shiny metal grey knights. He took exceptional care to convert and shape them, green stuff them, pose, and base them. When the New GK codex finally appeared, our mutual friend thought he'd do something really nice for the Daemonhunter, and took his entire collection of minis into his school where he had (he was a teacher) all of his students paint the models over the course of a week, and presented them to him with a copy of the new codex as a birthday present. Really thoughtful. I don't think they used model paints, or brushes, from the way it was described, they were mostly finger painting. They don't do birthdays for each other anymore.
What truly makes that awful is that it was done with only the best of intentions, so your friend would just end up looking like a jackass if he got mad.
Well it wasn't a friend or girlfriend but when I was playing a game next to some kids having their beginners game 1 of them decided to swing their hand out really wide when rolling a dice, in the process knocking a building onto my talos and my opponents guardsmen, all you could really see was a heatlance skidding along the table. The chainflails are still broken to this day(':\'(')
Some of these tales are truly horrendous. One of my relatives once burst into my room, fell over and reached out to steady herself on my desk crushing 20 drying guardsmen in the process. The worst thing I've seen in this thread is the uninitiated constantly referring to our beloved minis as 'toys'
CrashCanuck wrote:All of the accidental damage I get, but with the psycho ex's, come on guys. The golden rule is don't stick your in crazy. Fortunately I haven't had any of my crazy ex's (even though it's the rule we all do it) go after my models and my current gf wouldn't do anything to them.
eorltheyoung wrote:Some of these tales are truly horrendous. One of my relatives once burst into my room, fell over and reached out to steady herself on my desk crushing 20 drying guardsmen in the process. The worst thing I've seen in this thread is the uninitiated constantly referring to our beloved minis as 'toys'
They are toys...or maybe man-dollies...your choice?
KingCracker wrote:The wife beat me with them, several times. I was totally surprised at her starting skill level
I thought you meant she hit you with them until I read the second sentence...
My girlfriend knocked a marine off the table during her intro game. It was one of the really old metal ones with plastic arms that I built ages ago. Those things shatter if you even look at them wrong. Easy fix though.
Other than that, the worst thing I have ever seen was during the record breaking vehicle only battle at GW Manchester (I think we still hold the record for most painted vehicles in a single game, around 2.5-3 thousand). Everyone was unpacking and someone had their revenant titan on a table. It got knocked off... I think everyone had sympathy for the guy.
God i feel so soryy for you guys it makes we want to cry rampaging women destroying warhammer if you want payback some paint could spill all in there wardrobe ooopsy daisy
I moved half way across the country and only had room for one case so i took the one well i left about 5000 points in marines at the old place with my mom and my step brother sold them all on ebay so he could buy weed, i diddnt find out till 4 years later when i went back to pick it up, i havent seen my step brother since i blew up on him when he, said naw i diddnt do it and my mom said i thought they were his :/ its been like 4 years since then so i have cooled off alot about it but still sucks.
What's with everyone's cats drinking the paint water?! I've got two little monsters myself, but they don't ever drink the ikky water - they'll just go to their water fountain or water dish or one of the sinks and lap up the water around the drain...
Now, Loki (the younger kitten) doesn't actually give two feths about my warhammer! Lucky me I guess, but she'll just sit there, give me her adorable little cocked head wide-eyed cute look and just watch what silliness I'm upto. She'll sniff at whatever I'm working on if I show it to her, but she's pretty disinterested about my toy soliders overall.
Stitch is a little ard! She's the reason I've had to keep all my stuff locked away and well organised when I'm not working on my stuff. She's broken a freshly assembled fiend of slannesh, a couple of my conversions (multiple times), walked off with a bloodletter (I got it back) and routinely uses round bases as hockey pucks! When I'm working on stuff, she has to be the center of attention so she'll sit there, look up at me with her 'puss in boots' big-eyed sad look, meow relentlessly and then purr away untill I drop what I'm doing and cuddle her. (she's just jealous is all!)
Worst though with Stitch - she's ruled by her stomac. When it's only about you know, 5am or so and she can't wait for her 5:30 feeding, she'll barge her way into my room, clatter her hind claws on the wood floor, play with my necklaces & lanyard and if that doesn't wake me up... This morning she tried to run off with one of my bitz boxes - a new one for her! Typically she tries to run off with of the empty sprues I have set aside for making 'rubble'.
I feel bad for everyone here who's had nightmare relationships... Myself, I've never really been much into relationships myself, and my friends are utterly terrified of ever breaking my stuff - even accidently! Somthing about me just seems to scream 'psycho killer' apparently or that's what they all tell me.
- I'm a girl with a very petite build (My friends joke when I turn sideways I all but dissapear!)
- I'm barely reaching 5'2
- I'm all of 100lbs soaking wet
- I've been accused of having 'mad cat-like ninja skillz'
- I've played competitive hockey for 19 years
- I've suffered 8 concusions (I've had a doctor tell me I should be dead)
- I'm described as 'the worlds nicest person'
I guess being feared is a good thing?! Outside of pure accident, only Stitch has purposely broken any of my models!
Doctadeth wrote:Lost around 300 bucks worth of forgeworld when my pychotic ex bitch stomped on them, then made love to me by way of compensation (she's got bipolar).
Doctadeth wrote:Lost around 300 bucks worth of forgeworld when my pychotic ex bitch stomped on them, then made love to me by way of compensation (she's got bipolar).
I fear that there's a mixup here between 'bipolar' and 'psychotic'.
The former is a term thrown around a little too often.
Doctadeth wrote:Lost around 300 bucks worth of forgeworld when my pychotic ex bitch stomped on them, then made love to me by way of compensation (she's got bipolar).
I fear that there's a mixup here between 'bipolar' and 'psychotic'.
The former is a term thrown around a little too often.
Often by the self-diagnosed.
And the latter by people with no understanding of mental health problems.
Perhaps I'm hypocritically bringing unwarranted disrepute onto one mental health problem when I intend to defend another.
If so, then I apologise.
But the implication that a woman could one minute be stomping on models and then making love doesn't imply bipolar; which is characterised by episodes lasting at least two weeks.
Henners91 wrote:Perhaps I'm hypocritically bringing unwarranted disrepute onto one mental health problem when I intend to defend another.
If so, then I apologise.
But the implication that a woman could one minute be stomping on models and then making love doesn't imply bipolar; which is characterised by episodes lasting at least two weeks.
Sorry, i do see your point, and did understand what you ment, that people think person with anger issues/mood swings is the same as bipolar. However, uncontroled anger and suden emotional changes could be caused by being in a manic stage, rater than the high/low swing of bipolar. Anyway, this forum is probably not the place to diagnose a mental health problem of somone we don't know
Henners91 wrote:Perhaps I'm hypocritically bringing unwarranted disrepute onto one mental health problem when I intend to defend another.
If so, then I apologise.
But the implication that a woman could one minute be stomping on models and then making love doesn't imply bipolar; which is characterised by episodes lasting at least two weeks.
Sorry, i do see your point, and did understand what you ment, that people think person with anger issues/mood swings is the same as bipolar. However, uncontroled anger and suden emotional changes could be caused by being in a manic stage, rater than the high/low swing of bipolar. Anyway, this forum is probably not the place to diagnose a mental health problem of somone we don't know
Aye, if it's to be discussed anywhere it's in PMs.
I was just a little tetchy about it for personal reasons, especially since the first post about the disorder came from a guy who, in another thread, has told a story about a friend being powerfist'd by a GW Manager for having the wrong minis out in a store. So I'm a little dubious as to the likelihood of a bipolar sufferer trashing his things.
I haven't ever had anything bad happen except when a not so close friend came round to my house and attempted to steal my corteaz model that i had just painted up, so i chased him out of the house and gave him a few punches, he also tried to steal my full outlaw star collection.
I recently warned my brother not to leave him finecast models in a box under his radiator.
When I first got my cat, she teased it with the plastic Wolf Priest that I spent 15+ hours working on. She thought nothing of the cat biting and pawing at it. She giggled.
No matter how nice and cool everyone's significant others may be, evidently from this thread when it comes to "your" hobby, the are absolutely crappy girlfriends/wives.
I'm sorry, but my Fiancee would never insult my personal space and interests. She might poke fun, but not in any real fashion. Our home office is nearly 1/2 my war-gaming stuff, including a giant bookcase full of figures.
But then again, I'm a serious LARPer and she thinks all the leather and chainmail armor I make is cool. Of course, she also goes and fights at events with me.
My girlfriend painted my space marine captain hot pink and lime green.
What made her choose those colours is beyond me. I'm not changing them because taking a super human badass in pink armour seriously just makes laugh on the inside.
Albeezie wrote:My girlfriend painted my space marine captain hot pink and lime green.
What made her choose those colours is beyond me. I'm not changing them because taking a super human badass in pink armour seriously just makes laugh on the inside.
I know I wouldn't change it. People will take it so much less seriously if it's painted up like that...until it's charging through their front lines, massacring their infantry.
Really? I like to think I'm the guy in the suit. Calling them "miniatures" just gives me an acceptable outlet for what used to be playing with G.I. Joe figures in the backyard. A loss to age that I truly lamented. Until I married and gained a nephew.
Don't we all... I personally wonder why we are all Nazis. It should be: What passers by think I do - *Picture of some satan Worshippers in full worshipping, maybe sacrificing a goat or young woman or something*.
Well, never had my wife destroy any of our stuff or my mother... Seems like some people have some serious anger / mental health issues that needs to be addressed...
When I was at work, my cousins took all my mini's out and where having a pretend war with them. Luckily the only thing they broke was some of the terrian which was curbstomped, had to throw some of it away.
Its not a horror story of mine but my friend had his parents take all of his models, put them on the ground outside and then burn them... This was because they thought that Warhammer was too demonic and that it shouldnt be apart of their christian lives which is understandable. Still, it was sad to hear as he's one of the only other people who I could game with :/
Marine_With_Heart wrote:Its not a horror story of mine but my friend had his parents take all of his models, put them on the ground outside and then burn them... This was because they thought that Warhammer was too demonic and that it shouldnt be apart of their christian lives which is understandable. Still, it was sad to hear as he's one of the only other people who I could game with :/
Marine_With_Heart wrote:Its not a horror story of mine but my friend had his parents take all of his models, put them on the ground outside and then burn them... This was because they thought that Warhammer was too demonic and that it shouldnt be apart of their christian lives which is understandable. Still, it was sad to hear as he's one of the only other people who I could game with :/
Wait...
How is it understandable?
I was about to say the same thing.. Don't understand something? Burn it! : D
Henners91 wrote:Perhaps I'm hypocritically bringing unwarranted disrepute onto one mental health problem when I intend to defend another.
If so, then I apologise.
But the implication that a woman could one minute be stomping on models and then making love doesn't imply bipolar; which is characterised by episodes lasting at least two weeks.
Sorry, i do see your point, and did understand what you ment, that people think person with anger issues/mood swings is the same as bipolar. However, uncontroled anger and suden emotional changes could be caused by being in a manic stage, rater than the high/low swing of bipolar. Anyway, this forum is probably not the place to diagnose a mental health problem of somone we don't know
Aye, if it's to be discussed anywhere it's in PMs.
I was just a little tetchy about it for personal reasons, especially since the first post about the disorder came from a guy who, in another thread, has told a story about a friend being powerfist'd by a GW Manager for having the wrong minis out in a store. So I'm a little dubious as to the likelihood of a bipolar sufferer trashing his things.
Herrner, you want me to ask her to email you actually verifying this? I ain't making this up.
Marine_With_Heart wrote:Its not a horror story of mine but my friend had his parents take all of his models, put them on the ground outside and then burn them... This was because they thought that Warhammer was too demonic and that it shouldnt be apart of their christian lives which is understandable. Still, it was sad to hear as he's one of the only other people who I could game with :/
Wait...
How is it understandable?
I'm just saying that yes the hobby can be seen by others (such as those of religious faiths) as being a demonic hobby with dark ideas that just dont fit right with their beliefs. I dont understand why they burnt them, but I understand why they didn't want their son continuing the hobby... The bbq of models was an overkill though :(
Marine_With_Heart wrote:I'm just saying that yes the hobby can be seen by others (such as those of religious faiths) as being a demonic hobby with dark ideas that just dont fit right with their beliefs.
No, it really can't. Not by anyone sane or reasonable anyway.
Note that I am not lumping anyone with religious faith into the non-sane or non-reasonable... because that isn't true.
These specific people didn't burn the models/hate the hobby because of religious faith - but because it doesn't fit their world view and they are unreasonable enough not to try and understand.
More than likely these parents would've done the same thing for whatever hobby didn't fit in their worldview.
I gave my friend's girlfriend my old sisters of battle and rhino as a gift since she wanted to start the hobby.
A couple weeks later I find out via my friend that she had put them in her backpack, and gotten them covered in honey... I was like "wtf" and then I had a good laugh because I found it extremely strange.
Marine_With_Heart wrote:I'm just saying that yes the hobby can be seen by others (such as those of religious faiths) as being a demonic hobby with dark ideas that just dont fit right with their beliefs.
No, it really can't. Not by anyone sane or reasonable anyway.
Note that I am not lumping anyone with religious faith into the non-sane or non-reasonable... because that isn't true.
These specific people didn't burn the models/hate the hobby because of religious faith - but because it doesn't fit their world view and they are unreasonable enough not to try and understand.
More than likely these parents would've done the same thing for whatever hobby didn't fit in their worldview.
Or anything else that would potentially force them to deal outside of their comfort zone. It's a very Imperial point of view when you think about it. Fear that which is different, label it as demonic or unclean, then burn it or shoot it.
In the real world, just as in 40k, it's the primary reason that there is no peace. Sure, the High Lords of Terra know exactly what they're doing, but the citizens just react to what ever they are told to hate, just like good little sheep.
Marine_With_Heart wrote:Its not a horror story of mine but my friend had his parents take all of his models, put them on the ground outside and then burn them... This was because they thought that Warhammer was too demonic and that it shouldnt be apart of their christian lives which is understandable. Still, it was sad to hear as he's one of the only other people who I could game with :/
UNHOLY S*%T!!!!!!!!
This is why i do not like extremist christians. 1 of the reasons anyway.
As it is my little brother managed to knock my scratch built Colossus Seige Mortar of the table. Hours of work smashed . Still-atleast it was fixable unlike the quoted persons freinds figures......
I don't get it. Because a couple of armies have some horns and spikes, religious nuts assume that its the work of the devil?! It makes no sense, how do people make that connection?
Its the exact same as playing say, a game of Napoleonics (Historical). The game is along the same lines, the objectives are just about the same, but because it doesn't have some fake Gods or some kind of daemonic thing, it can't be the work of Satan, can it?
Its completely slowed, if you ask me. I know that it is a strong word, but there must be some kind of impediment to make that kind of 'logic' jump. Aplogies if I offend, but it borders on clinical insanity...
Purists (which is the word I will use) do not things that taint their perspective of a belief or object. They like things the way they are and do not want outside influences.
Christians who see outside influences like Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons therefore understandably do not want these games and hobbies in their lives because they foster what they consider an unhealthy lifestyle, which to them impinges on their moral purity.
It is like asking a MtG player to take their MtG cards and play a Yu-Gi-Oh game with them. It is something a MtG purist will refuse to do and outright reject.
Marine_With_Heart wrote:Its not a horror story of mine but my friend had his parents take all of his models, put them on the ground outside and then burn them... This was because they thought that Warhammer was too demonic and that it shouldnt be apart of their christian lives which is understandable. Still, it was sad to hear as he's one of the only other people who I could game with :/
luckily for me no one has ever tried to intentionally destroy my models but me, after fielding an attack bike with heavy flamer that killed absolutely nothing in the 10 games i played it (last 3 in a tournament) i figured it to be a cursed piece so for gaks and giggs i brought it out back. i then dug a small hole in the ground and placed in a seal bomb and covered it up with a bit of dirt, i then stuck the model on top and lit it up. the only thing intact from the event was the flamer. since then i have had much better results with the heavy bolter attack bike that has replaced it.
Now, I consider myself a Christian, and I have to say, most Christians are crazy. Totally certifiable. Die-hards of any sect are bad, baptists are the worst. I had a friend whose mom did the same with magic cards he brought back from my birthday party when I was ten. She wouldn't return them to me even, she destroyed them, I believe. Same woman called for saddam's head on a pike to be paraded around. And without seeing examples like these come out, she would seem like the nicest person ever. It was crazy how she could 180 like that. And southern baptist churches are even worse-I went to one (forced) and was practically told I'd go to hell if I sneezed in church. I can be a Christian in the church of my own car. I have a lot of time on the road, so I have lots of personal time with God. I don't need to go to a building full of crazy fanatics to talk to him.
Marine_With_Heart wrote:I'm just saying that yes the hobby can be seen by others (such as those of religious faiths) as being a demonic hobby with dark ideas that just dont fit right with their beliefs. I dont understand why they burnt them, but I understand why they didn't want their son continuing the hobby... The bbq of models was an overkill though :(
I come from a Christian family. None ever had problems buying me GW stuff. My grandmother even bought me the old Chaos Marine on Juggernaut. I can't even begin to imagine how religious people must be to burn a model based on a piece of fiction.
Christian education (thanks to the church being allowed to run schools, which political parties can't... I find this odd), culturally Anglican upbringing (not being told God's not there, but not practising either) and finally a victim of the wonderful retreat of faith from Europe.
I think my generation here is the most tolerant that has ever walked this nation's earth. But my opinion may be skewed by being A. Rather privileged and B. Going to University.
Anyhoo, that's very OT, if anyone wants to debate it you can PM if you'd like or do another thread?
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templarM wrote:luckily for me no one has ever tried to intentionally destroy my models but me, after fielding an attack bike with heavy flamer that killed absolutely nothing in the 10 games i played it (last 3 in a tournament) i figured it to be a cursed piece so for gaks and giggs i brought it out back. i then dug a small hole in the ground and placed in a seal bomb and covered it up with a bit of dirt, i then stuck the model on top and lit it up. the only thing intact from the event was the flamer. since then i have had much better results with the heavy bolter attack bike that has replaced it.
I am sure that I don't have to address your failure of logic in associating dice rolls with an individual model.
Henners91 wrote:I am sure that I don't have to address your failure of logic in associating dice rolls with an individual model.
That's what those lazy models want you to think.
I myself prefer less drastic methods of making sure my models don't slack off. Giving them nice paint jobs or telling them what their opponents said about their mothers right before a battle.
My brother was massively into WHFB and 40k during the 80s and early 90s - 4000 point bretonnian army, including polystyrene castle. 4000 point Space Marine army using old school marines painted as Rainbow Warriors, plus any models that he thought were cool - I can remember lots of Grey Knights and a few of the the original noise marine models, original LOTD, all kinds of cool stuff. I was just getting started but had a complete empire army from the time too [all in metal].
These were put in a massive box and put in the attic - step dad threw them out a couple of years ago. He had a smug look on his face until we told him how much they could make on ebay. My brother still has cold shivers whenever he thinks about it
timetowaste85 wrote:Now, I consider myself a Christian, and I have to say, most Christians are crazy. Totally certifiable. Die-hards of any sect are bad, baptists are the worst. I had a friend whose mom did the same with magic cards he brought back from my birthday party when I was ten. She wouldn't return them to me even, she destroyed them, I believe. Same woman called for saddam's head on a pike to be paraded around. And without seeing examples like these come out, she would seem like the nicest person ever. It was crazy how she could 180 like that. And southern baptist churches are even worse-I went to one (forced) and was practically told I'd go to hell if I sneezed in church. I can be a Christian in the church of my own car. I have a lot of time on the road, so I have lots of personal time with God. I don't need to go to a building full of crazy fanatics to talk to him.
warhawkstriker wrote:my girlfriend is pretty cool with the 40k thing. She calls me her "adorable little nerd" and puts up with all my shenanigans. Really the worst I have to deal with is from my parents and siblings who to this day call it "toehammer" for god knows what reason.
Why 'war' was replaced with 'toe', we shall never know...
I know what! They prenounce Tau as toe and think its funny...
Marine_With_Heart wrote:Its not a horror story of mine but my friend had his parents take all of his models, put them on the ground outside and then burn them... This was because they thought that Warhammer was too demonic and that it shouldnt be apart of their christian lives which is understandable. Still, it was sad to hear as he's one of the only other people who I could game with :/
HA, the Irony.. Burn the heretic!
On the other hand, Its so much worse once you realise that this was most likely an Australian's army. So much money... gone...
2) State that people in a religion are crazy. "Most ____ are crazy" as had been said.
It's completely irrelevent to this discussion and is pretty offensive. By the way, just because you are a part of something doesn't give you the right to call "most" others in that something crazy, stupid, intolerent, or anything else really. You can speak for yourself, and give an example of something you have seen- but you cannot speak on behalf of all people like you know every one of them personally. And if you are wondering, I'm a conservative Roman Catholic.
/rant
Anyways, I was playing a 2000 point game with my older brother, while my little brother practiced his soccer trick moves five feet or so from our gaming table. The turn my three outflanking vendettas arrive with converted vets deployed underneath them was the same turn my brother moved his 2 crisis suit teams to flame/ melta them.
As I went to grab one of my exploded vendettas, a soccer ball comes whizzing by- straight into the vendetta I was grabbing for. It then proceeded to smash into the other two, knock off twenty or so guardsmen and crush the crisis suits.
Let's just say that my older brother isn't as forgiving as I am and employs phisical force as his best retrobution.
gohkm wrote:Back when I was still living with my parents (in fact, right before I left for university), my mum decided that we needed more room in the house. Without asking me, my models were arbitrarily tossed in the trash.
That was really painful, as the collection contained not just my figs, but also several Airfix model ships and planes that I had spent a long time putting together and painting up.
Ouch thats bad.
My little brother once had to bring 3 things that were important to him to school for "show and tell" one of the things he chose was one of my metal chaplains because he really liked spending time with me and playing 40K with his big brother.
While at school it was knocked off his desk and broken, and then lost or possibly stolen.
He was quite upset; since it was my model and he hadn't asked me to borrow it (I was away at university).
There is a picture that was taken of him with his three special things (now two special things), all the other kids were smiling in their pictures, but he was barely holding back the tears in his. So what was supposed to be a special day for him turned into one of the worst days in his life.
He couldn’t even tell me himself so my mom phoned me instead.
I felt pretty bad for him, and also quite touched that he loved our 40k sessions enough to make it one of his three special things.
Needless to say I completely forgave him and gave him a hug when I saw him next. Finding out that he loved me that much was worth way more than one little metal marine.
Also he later found the chaplain (still broken) in an outer pouch of his backpack! One drop of superglue later and it was back to granting “litany of hate” to my crusader squads and assisting in the killing of his orks.
This is the most beautiful and touching thing about little plastic figures I've ever read.
I've had no major disasters with my mini's, and after reading the horror stories within the thread this is quite minor by comparison.
Back when I was but a youngster and fairly new the hobby my dear old MK1 Rhino got dropped out of the bedroom window. To this day, I'm not sure which sibling, parent or pet was responsible, or even if I should simply tag it under Murphy's.
Still, they built them well back then. A little paint and some knife work around the front ram. It was serviceable for a newbie.
I'm much more careful now, and fortunate to have a beloved who not only paints, but also thinks Tyranids are cute - All the better to mock my opposition.
Over 9000! wrote:
This is the most beautiful and touching thing about little plastic figures I've ever read.
Isn't it? I just want to reach through space and give Ma55ter_fett and his little brother a big CuddlySquig cuddle. My big brother used to play warhammer with me, but now that we're adults I almost never see him anymore and he's long out of the hobby
Minor technicality: the chaplain is a little metal figure.
WarOne wrote:Purists (which is the word I will use) do not things that taint their perspective of a belief or object. They like things the way they are and do not want outside influences.
Christians who see outside influences like Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons therefore understandably do not want these games and hobbies in their lives because they foster what they consider an unhealthy lifestyle, which to them impinges on their moral purity.
It is like asking a MtG player to take their MtG cards and play a Yu-Gi-Oh game with them. It is something a MtG purist will refuse to do and outright reject.
In fairness, the best that a Magic card can achieve is a base 15 attack and defence points in YGO. That won't be killing anything any time soon. 'Course, I guess you could assign them points based on the percentage of the starting life totals of both games, but that's not exactly relevant is it?
Pretty much the only bad thing that happened to me was when my friend picked up my Chaos Lord by the (fragile) wings. They both broke off and ruined the paint because the glue I used to fix it (they were metal) reacted with it or something.
Ascalam wrote:My 3 year old LOOOVES daddy's deffkoptas
Same here. My three-year old son comes down and frequently asks to play with daddy's helicopters. I have had to reglue two of the blades on so far.
My wife hijacked my Chaos Daemon army. She saw the Pink Horrors, Flamers of Tzeentch and the Soul Grinder and said she wanted to paint those. I was a little sad as I was looking forward to painting those. I was extra sad when she proceeded to paint them better than I could have and I've been painting minis for over a year now.
On the bright side, my second army is coming along and I don't have to do anything about it to get a painted army! Too bad she will never actually play with me.
I had a crazy friend/roommate who thought she could just do as she pleased with my stuff but touch hers and there'd be hell to pay. One day I cam home and found plastic minis torn to little itty bits and the metals she had attacked also torn apart twisted and then each piece flattened. Needless to say we no longer live together.
Not much TBH- I've had my brother steal a few models after arguments, break them and sneak them back when I was away, and since the only things he spends money on is online games, xbox, clothes and food, I can't really do anything back to him. I've also had my brother (accidentally) tread on my dreadnaught in the middle of a floor-game (it broke at the ankle joints)... then the dog kicked it over as the glue was drying... twice...
and there was the time my mum decided to close the curtains of my room, and knocked over a librarian with them, breaking the left arm and top half of the staff off, but it got fixed.
While having a triples game with 5 of my mates, me girlfriend came into see what was up with all the laughing (We were laughing un-controlably when my mate lost agianst 10 High Archers with his 10 Chaos chosen...
She came in had a scout around the table to look at all the figures, she then turned to say something to me and knocked off my Anvil of doom with her arm on a concrete floor. All the laughter just died in a split second and we all literaly sat their staring at my broken Anvil (It wasen't really broken, and it all came apart from where I clued it together, so it only took like 10min to put it back together). But anyways, as we were all staring at it, one of my teamates said, well, I guess that counts as you blowing up your anvil. Then we all went back to laughing, but I sorta died a little in side.
But when the game was finished and all my friends went home. She forgave me in all sorts of ways!
shasolenzabi wrote:You could always retaliate by replacing a game disk with a cartoon disk, then, when he turns the games on, he get's a kiddy show instead of the game.,
Depends on what you replace it with, cartoon-wise. If replaced by Batman or X-men from the 90s, you might be doing him a favor. Put in MLP and turn him into a brony, then exterminate him with fire! He'd deserve it for being a dirty pony-lover.
shasolenzabi wrote:You could always retaliate by replacing a game disk with a cartoon disk, then, when he turns the games on, he get's a kiddy show instead of the game.,
Depends on what you replace it with, cartoon-wise. If replaced by Batman or X-men from the 90s, you might be doing him a favor. Put in MLP and turn him into a brony, then exterminate him with fire! He'd deserve it for being a dirty pony-lover.
shasolenzabi wrote:You could always retaliate by replacing a game disk with a cartoon disk, then, when he turns the games on, he get's a kiddy show instead of the game.,
Depends on what you replace it with, cartoon-wise. If replaced by Batman or X-men from the 90s, you might be doing him a favor. Put in MLP and turn him into a brony, then exterminate him with fire! He'd deserve it for being a dirty pony-lover.
I never realised how much destruction has been caused to our fine man-dollies by the ignorant!!
I've perfected the solution, to remove parts from sprues I have a collection of medical scalpels, and I love to remind everyone that they are designed to cut through skin! on top of that I make sure they are aware just how good I can wield them to get the pieces off the sprues. With that knowledge every seems to be more careful around my models!!
The only truely bad thing for me was caused by me, a few weeks back after playing down GW with a mate. I was carrying a box for him, and balancing a shoe-box containing 1000pts Necrons and 1000pts Daemons (including a lord of change and bloodthirster both metal). As I opened the car door the box slipped and all 2000pts scattered across the concrete car park in the dark! Out of everything only 2 scarab bases and 3 warriors survived intact! and my friends response (he was on the other side of the car at the time) when he saw? "phew, I thought it was my box you dropped"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Learnt my lesson now, only carry models in boxes with latches!
shrike wrote:since the only things he spends money on is online games, xbox, clothes and food, I can't really do anything back to him.
You could always wrap his xbox in a towel and leave it on until he gets the red lights of death...
as good an idea as that is, he goes on it basically 6 or so hours a day, so he'd notice. Either him, or someone else.
A better (or more effective) is open up the xbox, cover the cpu fan (so that it can still spin, but not let hot air go) and watch how it rrods is 10-15 seconds and no trick will save it (unless you remove the fan blocker). You can do all this in 30 minutes even if you are inexperinced.
Not the worst thing thats ever happened, but my gf once tied a bunch of little pink bows to my sm army just so they would look cute for her daemonettes.
notprop wrote:This thread has changed from crazy things that have happened to a forum for those self same crazy people to discuss proposed actions.
I demand less petty nerds moar unhinged girlfriends!
I gotta ask...what is it about crazy girls that is so darn attractive? And, if anyone says "nothing," I have a ten page thread to back me up that a lot of us tend to be attracted to the crazies.
Blackhoof wrote:apparently they are really good in bed.
source: Castle
It's a myth. I had a couple crazies who weren't so great. The one crazy I had (who I mentioned in the 'how fast is your redshirt' thread) was a freak in the bedroom. Sigh, I miss those sessions. I went through a lot of belts during that time period...
Blackhoof wrote:apparently they are really good in bed.
source: Castle
It's a myth. I had a couple crazies who weren't so great. The one crazy I had (who I mentioned in the 'how fast is your redshirt' thread) was a freak in the bedroom. Sigh, I miss those sessions. I went through a lot of belts during that time period...
I've had only had two, though not near as bad as some on this thread.
A guy I was playing accidentally flipped a building that had my 3 wraiths in it. Arms broken in all the wrong places, head came off, and tail broken in the middle.
I had just finished stage 3 out of 4 on my Necron wraith lord. this was where it was playable. the only step left was to gs a cloak to give it stability. I was showing it to my brother and told him how I had gotten it to the perfect height. he proceeded to push it's tail down, breaking all the bonds holding it. He didn't realize it was glued in place so I didn't give him too hard of a time.
Sent FW Grenadier #8 to meet the metal end of a sword scabbard at a very high speed, one footbroke off, while the other stuck around and perfectly broke off its sprue, so no biggie.
I have one landspeeder that always finds its way in the path sweeping hands or accidental hip checks. In one awful at the time, but now hilarious, had a friend smack by accident it in full swing, and shot it across a room. It snapped the base off, but didn't break the actual model. I joked it Turbo Boosted and the skill of the Ravenwing crew saved it.
notprop wrote:This thread has changed from crazy things that have happened to a forum for those self same crazy people to discuss proposed actions.
I demand less petty nerds moar unhinged girlfriends!
I gotta ask...what is it about crazy girls that is so darn attractive? And, if anyone says "nothing," I have a ten page thread to back me up that a lot of us tend to be attracted to the crazies.
No mate, I think that inside every normal bird there is a crazy one trying to get out. The crazy ones are just further along the path than the normal ones is all.
timetowaste85 wrote:I had one who decided she wanted to be a stripper and used one of my models to practice picking up dollar bills. I never saw that model again...
My girlfriend stole one of my sniper scouts from my army, as well as some paints and didn't inform me. Assuming that I lost the scout in transport, I replaced it off of ebay. Not a big deal.
Turns out, she stole the model and painted him pink, white, and red and then gave it to me on valentines day. Shes too cute.
zeke48 wrote:My girlfriend stole one of my sniper scouts from my army, as well as some paints and didn't inform me. Assuming that I lost the scout in transport, I replaced it off of ebay. Not a big deal.
Turns out, she stole the model and painted him pink, white, and red and then gave it to me on valentines day. Shes too cute.
That would tick me off.
I mean, hell, even I have let a girl paint an Ork all pink and the like, but now I think about it from a removed and more abstract position all I can ask myself is 'why?' 'Why did I let a girl ruin a perfectly good and rather expensive miniature?' Simply because, if it's a girl, and we put up the veneer of liking them, then it's ADORABLE when they do their *utterly unique and individual* little takes on our spayss mans.
Oh my, I seem to have raged with no provocation... my apologies, it's a shame that these inter-tubes seem to be a place for that.
involving me painting. I'd just about finished painting it up, had attatched the banner etc and working on a few last details and had left it to dry while eating dinner. Later that night we had a 'disagreement' about something and ended up dangerously close to my paint station, basically I started to put it away and as I had it in my hand she swiped it and it went flying to the floor. Result = Snapped Banner, 1 Part of the Wing broken, Power Claw arm and Claws broken off and Finally the Dread had been broken in 1/2 between the torso and legs. In the end we patched things up and I fixed him up as good as possible and learnt to stay clear of the paint station area during arguments. 
If you don't get them back first...consider them a casualty. Sadly.
). It is okay now.
