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

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

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

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

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

hmmmmm plastic crack XD

j.i. joes

RutgerMan wrote:

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

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

I'm jealous!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

lego men

I call it Analog DIY Starcraft

Usually people call them midget soldiers

Oh man. I have accrued a heck of alot.

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

^ How demeaning.

The usual...

Waste of time
Plastic dude game
No life hobby

Those sorts of things...

my wife calls it "dorkhammer"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Toy Soldiers or Expensive Plastic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They call it "that Warhammer game".

Need-to-know basis.

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

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