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Well, this sucked. In the process of moving, I dropped a box holding about 1500 worth of Ork vehicles and walkers, smashing most of them. I can glue them back together, but it'll be a good amount of work and it really sucked.

What's the worst thing you've done?

Personally, nothing, I never move them other than into my case and then onto the board/display shelf, but a close friend had a car crash and totaled a knight and 3,000~ points of nids.

Drove a drill through my finger.

Yup.

Through.

In through one side and out through the nail.

never had a model break in a serious way, though I've put an exacto knife through my finger enough times that I should but stock in a bandaid company.

I think my worst mishap was when I had to slam on my brakes in my car with my case in the backseat, and the top wasn't zipped all the way. Space Marines were EVERYWHERE.

Nearly sliced a finger off converting an Ordo Xenos inquisitor.

Did step on a squad of Dark Elf Spearmen once....

Of dark eldar/elves, my raider has drawn blood on me before. Lovely model but those spikes.

Slipped on a pipe and launched a bunch of orcs and goblins everywhere, even back into my car. This was over a year ago and I'm still finding random bits of Waaagh everywhere, including an actual orc when cleaning out said car yesterday.

I knocked over an ork boy and his arm came off it was my opponents. In my two years that's pretty minor. I hope to keep it up. This happened once or twice with other troops here and there.

On the other hand my army has been devastated by people's butter fingers and has needed hours of work and fixing. :( My lumbering fat body and "sausage" fingers don't look dexterous and people always expect me to be clumsy but I'm not. It's usually them.

I forgot my Stormraven was in a box in front of my 4 year-old's carseat, and she used it as a step-stool for about a week.

Now it sits (in it's many pieces) on my desk as a reminder to me to not be stupid.

I left a landraider crusader in my garage for a week. Temps got over 120. My landraider physically melted and warped.

However the worst spill was when I dumped my entire bits box across the kitchen floor. Probably close to 600 heads, arms, bases, flight stand sticks, guns, grenades, etc. Everything WAS neatly sorted at that time. The box has never been the same since.

 War Kitten wrote:
I think my worst mishap was when I had to slam on my brakes in my car with my case in the backseat, and the top wasn't zipped all the way. Space Marines were EVERYWHERE.

Use drop pods to avoid deep strike mishaps...

I saw that my giant tomcat cat was about to leap from the sofa to the top of the aquarium, and beat up my other cat.
I say, "Hey, no!" and he literally dropped out of the leap mid-air and fell straight down, like Wil E Coyote.

Except he weighs 14lb and landed on my custom built dakkajet.

My drunk ahole brother knocked over some models I had drying, slammed a chaos marine squad, IG Tank and 2 IG infantry squads. His GF at the time also picked up 2 tau firewarrior squads I had in an open box and threw them against a wall. I salvaged a few of the models and used bits to recomplete a few.

 cox.dan2 wrote:
My drunk ahole brother knocked over some models I had drying, slammed a chaos marine squad, IG Tank and 2 IG infantry squads. His GF at the time also picked up 2 tau firewarrior squads I had in an open box and threw them against a wall. I salvaged a few of the models and used bits to recomplete a few.

My completely sober brother whipped a box of primed raptors and primed metal warsmith across the room... needless to say, he knocked an arm of the warsmith I had been meaning to remove to prime him right...

I was replacing the main body of a shoota boy for some reason, and I got impatient and just sorta fethed him up completely. Thankfully I was able to use the spare bits from a Loota kit, plus the millions of ork arms I have lying around, to replace him, but that's honestly the worst time I've had in my six months of the hobby. Not too bad.

I sat on a Bloodletter.

Dunno what was damaged worse, the bloodletter or my butt.

Working on a old oop great unclean one with a sword. Solid metal the size of a baseball. I turned away and knocked it off the table and it fell sword tip down and piercEd through the skin in between my big toe and neighbor toe. Looked, screamed, raged, picked it up to remove it from being impaled into my flesh. And the baseball through it across the house. Went through the drywall and fell between the gap, I can't get it back without destroying more drywall. Covered the hole. And have since moved. The whole ordeal was painful

 conker249 wrote:
Working on a old oop great unclean one with a sword. Solid metal the size of a baseball. I turned away and knocked it off the table and it fell sword tip down and piercEd through the skin in between my big toe and neighbor toe. Looked, screamed, raged, picked it up to remove it from being impaled into my flesh. And the baseball through it across the house. Went through the drywall and fell between the gap, I can't get it back without destroying more drywall. Covered the hole. And have since moved. The whole ordeal was painful

My god do I want to see the reactions of whoever the hell finds that model. A blood-covered, bubbling daemon stuck in the wall. "Honey, did the realtor mention any sort of satanic rituals going on in this house?"

 Vitali Advenil wrote:

 conker249 wrote:
Working on a old oop great unclean one with a sword. Solid metal the size of a baseball. I turned away and knocked it off the table and it fell sword tip down and piercEd through the skin in between my big toe and neighbor toe. Looked, screamed, raged, picked it up to remove it from being impaled into my flesh. And the baseball through it across the house. Went through the drywall and fell between the gap, I can't get it back without destroying more drywall. Covered the hole. And have since moved. The whole ordeal was painful

My god do I want to see the reactions of whoever the hell finds that model. A blood-covered, bubbling daemon stuck in the wall. "Honey, did the realtor mention any sort of satanic rituals going on in this house?"

Lol exalted! That would be funny!

The only real mishaps I've had have been random arms/weapons/heads falling off of miniatures while playing. Easy to fix but annoying as hell. Best one was when my DA Assault marine sarge fell apart at the waist. I didn't have my plastic glue with me, so the legend of Sergeant Legs was born.

Glued my fingers together once by mistake. (didn't notice the glue tube was leaky)

It was painful to separate them.

I was at a tournament once. Reached over to shake the guys hand and without either of us touching it, the right side of the table just collapsed. The models on the right dropped with the table as it became a big slope. The ones int he middle only fell a little and then slid down and the ones on the far left got slightly catapulted into the air before crashing down into the amalgamated pile that was now formed at that bottom of the slope.

Not actually that much damage, a few arms and what not broke off, a few paint chips. But oh the horror at the time...

I looked at a metal Exorcist once. It did not survive.

One time I was cutting a part off of a sprue in my local gaming store at the time and slipped with the exacto-knife. It bounced off of the bone in my finger and at first the wound looked really small, until I put it under water and it split really wide.

All I remember was that the guy working at the gaming store that day said they sold a lot of clippers and the person who recommended I go to the hospital was a paramedic that became rather uneasy when seeing the wound all opened up. Don't worry though, I still have my finger, it just has a scar D:

Knocked over a Lightning on a 12" tall flying base. Thankfully the only part that broke instead of separating at the glue joint was minor and not in an easily visible location. Then I did it again with my other Lightning a few years later. Oddly none of my other flyers have suffered the same fate.

Not really my accident, but a raging opponent launched my Metal RT Dreadnought at a wall, it cracked the wall, bounced off and concussed him.

I'm starting my chaos army and got my cultists out of their package. was using an exacto knife to precisely cut the pieces out, accidentally applied too much force and cut downward into my middle finger. first mishap in my warhammer 40k hobby.

Helping a friend take apart a Predator, I drove a craft knife into the lower half of my thumb, right where it starts, to the bone, then upwards to the joint, severed most of the nerves and now I can't play drums anymore, feel any sensation in that part of my hand, except for cold (and it's always cold), makes modelling and painting a lot harder, and gaming is almost impossible. That's my worst mishap.

Once dropped a modelling knife blade first near my exposed privates (was a quick repair and was ready to go to bed so didnt put clothes on) and very nearly gave myself a home made castration

I asked my brother to pick up my resin Belial miniature from our local GW store. They were having a golden Demon painting competition (and my Belial won first place!). So he put it loosely in a cardboard box with my trophy and his Gaskull Thraka....

My brother drives like a maniac, I will leave it at that. When he opened the box, my Belial was in pieces. There were some clean breaks through the crappy resin. Also some areas where the paint was chipped off as well.

Oh and my trophy was broken too :(