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Neil wrote:At a recent tournament, the two paint judges came up during a game to judge painting. One judge accidentally bumped the table and knocked my bloodthirster off. The other painting judge instinctively tried to catch it.. with his foot.. and punted it across the room

I had a similar non-gaming experience. I was in Disneyland and was taking my camera out to take a photo. I happened to notice something on the ground and I just kicked it as you would a pebble. When I caught up to it again I realised it was my spare 2GB SD card (already full of photos) for my camera which must have fallen out as I got my camera!

On topic: was playing a game in a tournament with eldar. I moved one of my Guardian casualties to the end of the table and I dropped it on the floor where it bounced. Was about to say, "Thats what I love about plastics, they bounce" but befor ei could it bounced right under the foot of another gamer! He was very apologetic but they was nothing he could have done, was entirely my fault. Worst part of it was that it wasn't even my army!

well i have my deffkotas from aobr and i curently have only one on that flying base cause when ever they drop they always break the flying base

I was over some guy's house when I was about 7, and this was the first time I ever saw Warhammer; a Space Marine bike squad... with banners all really well painted and everything... I proceeded to try and grab them and play with them: I was told "Those aren't toys", and that was that...

Only time I *can remember* wanting to be malicious with models

But on another subject; it really grinds my gears how GW is effectively free daycare; we have to be patient and nice to these nauseating kids... I went to my local GW recently with some of my oooold models I was given as a present as a kid; including the old Rhino. The bunch o' younglings had never seen the old model before and when I placed it on the table next to a bigger Rhino they proceeded to laugh at me; despite my protestations that this "Venerable" Rhino was probably older than they were; and deserved respect instead. They proceeded to man-handle it and neurgh... I told them to put it back and nothing was broken, but jeez... I really don't have the patience for looking after some kids that just get dumped in the store whilst mumsy goes off shoe shopping (or w/e women do... I don't interact with them much, being a hobby gamer 'n' all ;&gt

you all have more patience than me

There was a reason why a friend of mine always played Inquisitor at night. The big metal dollies were very tempting back in the day.

A couple of weeks ago, my mum had an old friend around, daft woman was too busy talking to controll her 2 brats(dunno how old, under 10) and too fat to chase them. I decide to be surly because I'm 18 and haven't been fed, go off to grab a beer, I get back, the older one is on gears of war, now, I don't know what to do...I can't reprimand him, he's not my kid, I can't hit him, he's not big enough and he hasnt done enough wrong, so I try and switch it to viva pinyata, kiddy friendly game, but no, I am caught, told off for playing violent swearing games, and drinking in front of them, at antisocial times of the day. grrr

So I sulk off to steal jaffa cakes from the cupboards...half an hour later and the younger one has my loverly new dreadnought, all shiny and bright, banners fluttering, base decorated, arms...not pinned...oh dear. I take it away from him, put it somewhere high and go off to lock up everything I own.

Aain, I waltz downstairs, giddy on jaffa and in need of a cup of tea to polish off the last three, I notice on the dining room table...two banners and a base...the feet were still attached to the base....but there was no dreadnought ON the feet, I wander through the patio doors and notice some lines running down the wall, there was a green one, a black one, and lots of big plastic-y grey ones, this does not fill me with hope, especially when I look up and one is sat on the floor, the other looking over his shoulder, my beautiful, lovingly painted, washed, weathered, freehanded dread has had his legs, WORN AWAY on the wall like some massive file, and the remenantsof his arms and legs are not as close to the sarcophagus as I would expect.the young one is now playing with a deffcopta.

I'm not proud of my actions, I did some terrible things, If I had my time again, I would have done things differently...I would have hung the bastard.
As it was, I pushed the standing one into a small shrub and snatched my deffcopta(dreaddy was a lost cause, besides I needed somethingto hold againsed my mum...just in case) and left the stupid git snivveling that he thaught it was a transformer...I'll transform hem.

To cap it all, not only did he snitch to his mummy, he HID MY FETHING XBOX CONTROLLER, under a pile of wood, who does that!?!?!?
Well I think I've said enough, one day that kid will be in a supermarket, and if I remember, I shall key his car, with an eulogy to dreddy

-Kyley

avantgarde wrote:I was hanging out with friends at the mall when we saw this geeky kid that went to my school walk out of the GW with his army. I was trying to impress this girl so we started harassing him. Like playing keep away with his models. Anyways I pocketed a couple and thought they looked cool when I got home and that's how I started 40k.

Truly you must be one of the greatest asses ive ever heard off. Im pretty sure a stolen model is a lot more difficult o deal with than a broken one.

Ive had way more trouble with adults wrecking my models than children, if a kid so much as comes near my models or case i approach them intimidatingly and tell them not to touch without permission. Adults however arent very intimidated by my size
My worst case of a broken model ever tho was caus of a guy who had a seizure, flipped a fully build foamcore board 2x3 table over and onto the floor (and proceded to almost crash himself on it), breaking several broadsides and lots of tanks in the process. He was cool enough to come back, apologise and help everyone reassemble and paint the damaged parts.

@Kyley

You should use his/their destructive nature against them next time. E.g. Tell them explicitly not to touch anything on the table where your working on stuff make sure their parent or whatev know too. Pretend that your working on a model that you dont need; like a starter kit marine. cover it in Super glue leave. When he picks it up he should notice a "sandwich box" as you guys call it. labelled glue remover right behind the marine, the marines glued to his hands he dips his hand in whatever devious liquid you decide to put in the container. TA-DAA!!!

Oh that would be deliciously ironic, just this kid cramming his hand ito a tub full of zip kicker.

Some of you gits are a wee bit too intense...

So on to my story, after pulling a 28 hour day (i love the military) I decided to finish up a valk before a good long sleep. I paint vehicles with an airbrush, so needless to say I'm holding the constructed valk in one hand and Airbrush in the other. I nod off, mid-puff mind you, I wake up 2 hours later in the exact same position with about 3 oz. of light blue reaper master paint sprayed all over my hand and valk. The horror being my friend's (who paid me to paint his valk) loud knocking woke me up. Needless to say The sheer amount of paint on the thing constituted my buying a new one, and repainting it.

The only example I can think of that I witnessed myself is at a model show where this late teenager (17-18) walked up to the table on which we were displaying with and picked up a model by the base and then inexplicably turned it upside down meaning all the 1:144 vehicles fell onto the table. My dad lept up and shouted "What the hell do you think you're doing?!" The hall, and this was a sports hall, went absolutely dead quiet, they put the base back down an beat a hasty exit.

On the pure destruction front with no help from other people...I know someone who virtually scratchbuilt a WW2 Churchill Bridgelayer very much like this model in the deploying position except in 1:35 not 1:72. My god it must have taken months of cutting from plastic card and he tripped and dropped it, it virtunally disintergrated. On a similar note another person I know built a vehicle from some extravagently expensive model that was mostly etched brass and that slipped off the top of a pile of stuff being transported to the car and simply burst into pieces when hitting the floor. Utterly destroyed, I would have binned it but he resurrected it.

Though the best one I've heard of that required a helping hand was witnessed by a friend of my mothers. He was at some event or shop where a boy had a tantrum about loosing and kicked the table over with all the models on.

Howard A Treesong wrote: Though the best one I've heard of that required a helping hand was witnessed by a friend of my mothers. He was at some event or shop where a boy had a tantrum about loosing and kicked the table over with all the models on.

Ive seen that alot, its eithr the table tip or the top swipe. I generally let the smaller childeren win unless they are actually good at playing the game. Imo a loss tic is alot better than reassembling an army (the same doesnt go for some ive met).

Yet anotehr situation from my vast resivoir of model molestation stories.

A few years back I was playing a tournament at my FLGS. One of the entrants had a few models that werent quite WISIWIG, he had plasma pistols isntead of bolt pistols and such he was young (12 or 13) and couldnet afford to have multiple models with all the different gear loadouts. One of the other competitors (probly around 24-25) got annoyed over this and when it came for those two people to play the older guy pulled out a set of clippers and started cutting all the gear the model didnt have off. Ofcourse the kid got upset and demanded reparations, to which the other guy scoffed and told the kid that next time he should have modles with the actual gear that is being used and that he wasnt going to repay the kid for the damages. What happened next is still one of the funnyest things ive ever seen. The kid just grabs the guys arm throws him to the ground and grabs his wallet and takes what was owed. Aparently the kid was has black belt in judo and had been training since he was 5.

I havent seen the older guy since. hes probly too afraid of getting made fun of for getting beat up by a 12 yr old.

Oh, that's awesome.

See, this is all why I don't play 40k. All these stories are horrible.

Reading the fluff and painting the models is much more risk free.

Apart from when you inadvertently stab yourself with a craft knife.

I might play, one day, but i'd have to REALLY trust who I was around.

Oh, these are the exceptions. I've been playing at my local Games Workshop for a year and so far no one has broken anything...except my housemate, who keeps knocking my damned Broadsides off there perch.

JohnHwangDD wrote:Oh, that's awesome.

+1

person person wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:Oh, that's awesome.

+1

and again.

Skarwael wrote:See, this is all why I don't play 40k. All these stories are horrible.

Reading the fluff and painting the models is much more risk free.

Apart from when you inadvertently stab yourself with a craft knife.

I might play, one day, but i'd have to REALLY trust who I was around.

Find a good gaming club (you're in the UK, there's loads of them) and you won't have any of these issues.

The only breakages I've ever seen in decades of playing is the moving-the-overloaded-foam-try-which bends-and-dumps-its-contents scenario.

The last time I played in a store was when the yellow wargear book (for 1st ed) came out.

Threads like this are why Im anti social..

Goliath wrote:

person person wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:Oh, that's awesome.

+1

and again.

And again.

"That kid...he came out of nowhere! It must of taken some sort of tactical geniu-CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!!

Sum guys just dont have respect for O.P.P (other peoples property) But if he shows himself again and picks up somethin without asking, just tell him that you dont accept such things, its no fair breaking O.P.P.


cya

The guy would probly be in his 30s now so i hope in the last few years he gained some respect for other peoples property.

another story to keep this thread going...... dont tell me I know live in a horrble model molestation area.

At a tournament and skills compition oh say about 4 years ago, a buddy of mine entered the painting contest. when the judges came around to his model they asked if it was alright to pick up and get a good look at it. Before my buddy can answer a bystander in his late teens or early twenties swoops in and picks the thing up and just as fast drops it on the concrete floor everyone is horrified when it hits the floor and shatters in places that it was not repairable, it was a nurgle Chaos Lord with demionic steed based on the Caller.
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1060107&prodId=prod1120103

The lord was salvagable but the Caller model was trashed, all its ribs were broken the tail was shattered. safe to say the model was finished. by the time everyone had looked up the guy who droped the thing was long gone. My buddy at that point was tomato red and was looking everywhere for this guy. aparently his wasnt the only model smashed at least 3 others were destroyed in a similar manner. the judges and others think the guy was a friend of one of the other competitors breaking models that posed a threat to his victory. Anyway due to the vandalism on his and other models the compition was called off and the people with the destroyed models were reembursed with the prize money.

JohnHwangDD wrote:

ManwithIronHands wrote:we hear Awww YOUR CAT SH** IN MY CARRY BOX AND ITS ALL OVER MY STUFF.

I LOL'D

Aw, dude!
That's not funny.

I had a bud who had a cat one time that was starting to lose it's mind.
he had a 3/4 completed FW Chaos titan in a box in the corner of his painting room.
The cat got in it a FEW times (during a period when he was taking a painting hiatus) and peed on it.

When he decided to start painting again, he went to get the model and found hard crusty yellow stuff all over the titan... especially the feet.

It had been there long enough to dry up & the pee smell to go away. He had to scrub the whole model, losing his SPECTACULAR paint job in the process.

It was a sad day.

Eric

I must go to a good store. I guess the fact that it is not in a mall but instead rather well hidden off one of the main drags plays in its favor there. For as long as I've been playing there, I don't think there have been any catastrophic demolitions whatsoever. There is always the occasional 'Oh crap I just dropped my Dire Avenger, where is his head?' but other than that it seems to be a model's paradise.

I make sure never to touch another's models without permission, and ensure that they get the same respect I give my own minis. As an artist, the thought of touching someone else's carefully painted minis with anything but a clean and careful hand horrifies me.

I have had one major panic moment related to potential mini molestation. Normally I keep my army boxes within arm's reach, or at least in a place where I can keep an eye out on them. During a tournament on a Saturday some weeks past (the day in which there is the highest concentration of non-40k gamers, roleplayers, and most of all unsupervised kids) I had to bolt off during the lunch break to get a car back from getting repairs. Lunch break = half an hour. Garage = thirteen minutes away. Needless to say, I was out the door like a shot as soon as the first round was done. The plan was to have my fiancee remain behind with my army, especially with the brand new daemon prince making his debut to very positive reviews on his paint. Two minutes down the road, mind abuzz with strategies and also my paranoid hatred of cities and city driving, I realized that she was in the passenger's seat because she had to drive this car back as well. I immediately shot off a panicked call to my friend who was TO that day, and he detailed a player we both trust to keep an eye on everything. Fortunately, the damage was limited to one smoke launcher popped off the side of a chaos rhino.

Darkreaver55 wrote:I must go to a good store. I guess the fact that it is not in a mall but instead rather well hidden off one of the main drags plays in its favor there. For as long as I've been playing there, I don't think there have been any catastrophic demolitions whatsoever. There is always the occasional 'Oh crap I just dropped my Dire Avenger, where is his head?' but other than that it seems to be a model's paradise.

same

Next time someone picks one of your models up, just ask them how they would like one of THEIR arms snapped off.

Works for me.

Wow, I feel very lucky, most of the gamers we have are older teenagers, 20s and older guys, so respect for on anther's models is pretty standard. Asking before picking up a model is standard. I think it helps that the owner has the 40k section away from the comics and is pretty strict with telling kids to ask before picking up models.

MagickalMemories wrote:

It had been there long enough to dry up & the pee smell to go away. He had to scrub the whole model, losing his SPECTACULAR paint job in the process.

It was a sad day.

Eric

He could have just dedicated it to Nurgle.

ahh yes kids... I work in a tattoo shop, there is NOTHING in the world that gets my attention up than a kid walking into the shop. I have a "goodies" shelf and a couple of the miniatures are on them.

I swear every kid ignores the actual toys on the shelf and wants to touch them and them alone (thank god the shelf is high enough to stop it).

I explain to them it is NOT a toy, its just really small, model.. usually works. The problem is not the kids it's the friggen parents. Kids are not stupid - they just don't know, it doesn't occur to them that the tiny thing that looks like a toy isn't a toy, it is amazing how easily a problem can be averted by telling them they are not toys, just small fragile models. That and smackin the gak out of the parents - I mean seriously who brings a kid to a tattoo shop !!!??!

Archonate wrote:This story fills me with rage. Both toward the mother and her slowed spawn.
It seems that some time shortly after my generation, a majority parents mutually decided to not only let their children run wild doing whatever they want, but also fiercely defend said child from anyone telling them to knock it off. Ultimately not only refusing to parent, but also getting angry when somebody is forced to step in and parent in their behalf.

No kidding. I work in a game store, in a mall. So besides the fact that people mistake our sign for saying "free baby sitting" and bugger off to shop (i personally take no responsibility for anyone's children beyond reasonable safety, if they wander out and get lost then I'll call the police and have them come look, and mention that the parents abandoned them in my store).

Anyways, we have a demo table set up for 40k, Marines and Orks set up to show people how to play. A kid comes in, must have been under 5, his useless father leaves him at the demo table while he goes to look around the store. The child proceeds to take a marine in each hand and smash them together repeatedly. Seeing this, I walk up to the demo table and ask the child (calmly) to not handle the models like that.

The father comes up and sneers at me, telling me I "Don't have to be a dick, they are just toys." I shake my head, put the models back into place and say that he's welcome to buy a $40 tactical box, spend hours painting each one up, and if then see if he feels they are great toys for his kid to smash together. Otherwise, I'll be happy to bill him for the damaged models on my table

THAT was me being a dick.