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nivekdaork wrote:I mean seriously who brings a kid to a tattoo shop !!!??!

Me.
I've briought them all at one point or another.
My youngest was, like, 5 or 6 when she went. She was curious about the process.

Of course, my kids are well behaved and I okayed it with my artist ahead of time.
She sat in a chair alternating watching and playing with her barbie, depending on which one she was bored with at the moment.


If only MORE parents taught their kids those manners, this would be a boring thread. : (

Eric

Meh No wonder everytime i walk into the store people stare at me like im going to pour simple green on everything

I'm a kid and for the warhammer generalization a bad thing but the worst ive done is pick up a conscript w/o asking and slowly putting it down when the guy scolded me

But, one time when i was playing a game a guy knocked over my figure case filled with models...some were broken etc. but nothing a little glue wouldn't fix but when i did a headcount 5 boyz were missing =(

I broke a friend's model once :( he was showing me his newly painted vampire count guy with these big dragon wing thingies on the head. I looked it over and said it was cool, then I went to gently put it back on the table and for some reason (the place was haunted I think) the model spun upside down and landed on it's head and the wingies popped off. I felt like crap and I could tell he was pissed and hiding it :(

one time at my FLGS, i was using my Death Corps IG. all lovingly painted and converted, when this one kid comes over and picks up one of the lovingly painted guard grunts.

"its fine" i thought, "whats the worst that could happen"

next thing it falls onto the side of my new forgeworld Macharius superheavy and knocks most of the fine detail off the side. not a happy bunny.

The words "What's the worst that could happen?" is almost always followed by rain, thunder, explosions, axe-wielding maniacs, zombies or a combination of the above.

had a kid come with his dad to my LGS once. I was having a game with my friend, and this 'dad' plopped the kid down in front us and told him to go watch.

The kid picks up a couple of my boyz that I set aside to pop out from a trukk later.

the first thing I thought was 'Oh boy! I heard of one of these horror stories! pray it doesn't happen to me'

We play on and the kid picks up my warboss who I just converted and glued. My heartbeat started increasing.

'It's ok' I said to the kid, as his 'dad', who didn't bat an eyelid throughout, kept on looking on.

The kid brings the boss to the side (to have a better look I guess).

Next thing I know he disappears from the room. I could still see the boss from where I was.

'Oh good'

Then my other friend who had been watching the whole scene came up to me and said...

'you know your boss is in pieces, right?'

I was like

... -_-'

...?
But you said you could still see the boss?

I have a buddy who was tired of people picking up his warboss. so he glued a bunch of sewing needles on it to deter the grabby lookies as he called em. Anyway one id have to say idiot, grabbed the boss stuck himself on one of the needles droped the thing and it got stuck in his foot. the boss was totaled, the guy beat a hasty retreat to the hospital for a tetnus shot and my buddy was banned from the FLGS for 2 weeks and wouldent be allowed to play untill he removed the needles from his models.

Hi Everyone,

I have been lurking on here for quite some time and reading this thread has finally prompted me to join up so i can add my two cents!

There are some real horror stories, all very good reasons to avoid taking my miniatures within a mile of a GW store, especialy considering that getting one model finished in less than two days is considered speed painting for me!

I remember not too long after getting into the hobby (I think i was about 9 at the time) I had most of my figures set up on the dinning room table, one of the neighbours drops her son off for my mum to look after for a couple of hours, he was a couple of years younger than me and the type of kid who was always having accidents (edited by Modquisition)

After seeing my miniatures he proceeds to start picking them up and play his own "special" version of army men, which mostly involved throwing them at each other, after telling him to stop that he then went into a sulk and started putting them in his mouth and sucking on them.

I proceeded to tell him that they were made from lead and that he now probably had lead poisoning, I then told him he would most likely be dead in a couple of days. Needless to say that his mum was less than impressed to return to find a hysterical son who was convinced he was going to die

There was one guy, who was using tau, who i was playing against a couple of months back with my very nicely painted krieg guard army.
Needless to say, when it came time to pack up (i had won, thank god), he began to "help" me as he got finished packing first.
He passed me what only can be described as a "mass" of krieg models, having just picked up a handful of them, all bar three of the models he picked up had the front of the las guns snapped of, not to mention damaged vox casters.

I cried internaly.

Another incident was when i had just finished a conversion for the Masque, a deamonized celistine with wings, then when my back was turned, just for a second, a guy wandered over picked up the model (without asking) and wandered over to the gaming tables with it, where the was a game on between SoB and Chaos.
He then removed the SoB player's saint (which was in play, also without asking) and replaced it with my chaosified version, stating that "this is the TRUE celistine."
Luckily i knew the SoB player, and he returned it to me promptly returned it to me, as i didn't know where it was.
The guy who did it was 16.

A more recent story from me,

My house mate is the direct opposite of me, he is a football playing health freak who veiws any other past times with distain, he also is an obsesive clean freak.

I have a book case in the dinning room where I have some of my better painting efforts on display, I get home one saturday to find my Empire standard bearer with a snapped off arm and my LotR army of the dead sporting several nasty chips, I decide to let it go as I assume he was carefuly dusting and knocked them by accident.

The next week I see him grab the duster and polish and head for the book case (which was dust free, I hasten to add!) he proceeds to pick up a handful of my best painted minatures and toss them onto the table, I ask him what the hell he thinks he is doing. He tells me that he needed to get my "toys" out of the way, I said for him to leave them as he was damaging them but he continued any way, muttering about them making the house look a mess. This was the straw that broke the camels back as he had been acting like a tool for quite some time.

He was rather shocked when I grabbed him by the arm and threatened to break his fingers if he didn't show my "toys" some more respect. Funnily enough i haven't had a single chip since

ManwithIronHands wrote:I have a buddy who was tired of people picking up his warboss. so he glued a bunch of sewing needles on it to deter the grabby lookies as he called em. Anyway one id have to say idiot, grabbed the boss stuck himself on one of the needles droped the thing and it got stuck in his foot. the boss was totaled, the guy beat a hasty retreat to the hospital for a tetnus shot and my buddy was banned from the FLGS for 2 weeks and wouldent be allowed to play untill he removed the needles from his models.

Personally I think you're buddy was in the right here but I can see where the store owner was coming from

grizgrin wrote:Had a kid accidentally dump a coke into about 4,000 points of BA once. Total, total accident, saw it happen; but damn it took some control to keep it together.

this happened to me once, i was unpacking my Tau and these two kids were oogling my models and one dumped his entire can of coke into my army transport, all over the models and the foam soaked up all the coke. i know he felt bad and it was everything i could do to keep the blood rage of khorne from overtaking me.

squilverine wrote:I proceeded to tell him that they were made from lead and that he now probably had lead poisoning, I then told him he would most likely be dead in a couple of days. Needless to say that his mum was less than impressed to return to find a hysterical son who was convinced he was going to die

The origonal metal models were made of a lead tin alloy back in the early days (early 80s).

Last month I was playing an Apoc game at a buddys place, didnt have a table big enough for the 120,000 point game so we had to use the floor. His parents had jsut waxed it and I was wearing socks (I had a really bad gash from droping my modelign knife blade down into my foot) so it was quite slick. Now I know what your thinking but that didnt happen I'm misleading you. My buddy's dog got out of the room we locked it in so it wouldnt disturb our game. Now the dog was quite excited because there was more people at the house to give it attention and possibly treats, so it comes running down the stairs, down the hall. we hear this and are able to intercept him before he comes into the room were using for our game (HAH another mislead). After this the game goes off without a hitch or broken model (for such a large game it didnt take too long only about 7 hours). we all pack up and start loading our vehicles with our models. we say our fare wells and go home. I got home without a hitch.

one of my other friends cant say that. he got rear ended at a red lightr and lost about 20000 points of models including 2 Forgeworld warhound titans and 3 origonal release Forgeworld baneblades (his serial numbers were in the low hundreds). this was all covered by the insurance company, but its a shame to have to rebuild and repain all of that.

I guess this doesnt quite qualify as a model molestation but its still quite gakky

So having made BEAUTIFUL tables for the FLGS I worked at, I have one that isn't about models. Here's the item in question:



So this table was never expected to remain in pristine condition, but one day I find somebody's little snot poking the end of his measuring stick into the board as deep as he could. Rage ensues, threats of broken fingers commence, parents are called. After much heated discussion about threatening children I do agree that it was the wrong way to approach the situation and proceed to tell the parents that it was THEIR fault for treating me like a babysitter (the kids were brothers, the oldest was 10), without as much as giving the children a 'behave yourself and listen to the adult in charge'. They were suitably chagrined and apologized, and asked how much to replace the table. After calculating costs (which wasn't hard because we had already done that for tax purposes), adding in my labour on it at $10.00/hour and standard retail markup, then adding a discount because the kids WERE regulars, I told them $350, to replace it. They were undestandably upset. I then told them that the table did not need replacing, but only because I caught the kids in the act, and that telling their kids to act like human beings or else they would be banned for a month would be recompense enough. This worked only because the parents liked to drop their kids off at the shop while they went to the bar (in the same strip mall) and relaxed with THEIR friends; the bar owner was the Mom's brother, and a friend of ours as well. Reaching the parents was a matter of a phone call and a 2 min walk, and even if the parents weren't there, the kids uncle or aunt usually was.

Man, why is everyone on here so mellow? It's to all of your credit of course, but still...if someone picked up one of my miniatures without asking they'd get a slap as a matter of course! Well, maybe nothing that extreme, but miniatures are so expensive and time consuming to collect/paint etc. the rule should be look with your eyes, not with your hands! That's how I was brought up.

My little brother and all his friends have this weird thing where "Can I look?" is permission to touch something.

I dont care if its a new store or not. I always immediatly saw "Please dont touch my stuff". Ignorant people somtimes wander in and think it's the stores stuff. Thier stupidity only exacerbated by their clear love of rap music.

LOL nice way to insult the masses alex.

What's with the placidity and repression?

Just slap the kids. You are bigger than them. Actually even if they are bigger and older than you slap them anyway. There is no age limit on learning.

Hmm I wonder what happens if your models were destroyed some how (out of your house) if they would be covered by insurance

Yesterday there way a little incident at our local GW store that has reinforced my position of never bringing models to the shop.

It's a rather small shop, but it has a nice gaming table with lots of gnarled trees, all nicely painted, fragile as they are in some parts. I was just waiting to buy myself a Valkyrie (yay!) as three little kids come running in. One asks if they sell YGO here, asks "Whuzzat?" in relation to the gaming table, which is okay I guess. However, it seems they get paid to deliver free newspapers (of the crappy sort) to every address in the street...so on of the kids looks around where to dump the newspaper and casually drops it onto the gaming table, quite right on some of the trees. While paper generally isn't that heavy, a bundled newspaper...well. I think it luckily caused no real damage. That was the moment where the manager told 'em to not drop that stuff there right on the models and please take it away, because he doesn't need that crappy free newspaper. I handed that kid the paper back and they reluctantly left the store.

Well, nothing like the stories some of you tell here, but nevertheless. There was a nicely painted Valkyrie a few inches to the left, and someone was painting an old MkII Predator not far away! Won't please someone think of the Valkyries!

@BeffyG, see in America we are plagued by this thing called wannabe ganstas. They come into stores trying to impress thier Gf's by speaking like SNoop Doggy dog and tossing models around and wearing pants that look like they defacated in. I've seen them come into stores and throw models around not knowing how much work goes into them.

Pretty much anyway you put it, rap music has rotted these people's brain's into mush. I grew up an a ghetto and so first hand I saw how full of crap these people are. Now I live close to the beach and am glad I got away from them. THis is why I will not play in malls. Too many stupid "gangstas" coming in trying to be "Tough"

Grimz - that insurance idea is a great one.
As a musician in the UK, your Musician's union membership entitles your instruments to insurance wherever they are ( in a studio, a car etc.) in case they get nicked or damaged.
A collection of miniatures is just as expensive as a medium priced guitar, so someone should come up with 'Gamer's Insurance' deffo.

Direct Line did this for me, my household things were insured off the premises up to a value of £500, so if I lost or broke my camera, mobile or things like that, they would replace it up to the value of £500, I also made sure that it covered my miniatures and it did.

Thankfully I never needed to claim but was worth having and not just for the miniatures either

I couldn't agree more about making sure your miniatures are covered in your house insurance, it is also worth noting that many insurers will ask if you have any "high risk" items which could easily be removed. Generaly they are thinking of laptops and xboxes but that £500 Reaver titan is just the same. If you dont declare it/them, then you may well find them not paying out.

Also beware of excesses.

It's fine to insure something for £500 but if there is a £250 excess you will be well out of pocket if something happens.

Kilkrazy wrote:Also beware of excesses.

It's fine to insure something for £500 but if there is a £250 excess you will be well out of pocket if something happens.

yeah I dont know what I'd do if my army got totaled. when I go to my FLGS I generally onyl have 3-400$ worth but if I got to an apoc game at a buddys place I'm generally dragging around 2000$+.

anyway lets get this thread back on course, vet night at my FLGS last night, I was running a 30 sternguard pedro list. some of my models I havent gotten around to painting yet but some guy probly in his late 20s jsut comes up and starts grabbing one of the unpainted ones off the table and starts examining it, after about 5 seconds too long looking at it he tells me theres no paint on it, I say yeah would you please put the guy back on the table I'm playing a game here. For some reason he took offence and threw the model back onto the table, which is made with insulation foam, the model is burried head first upto its waist in the table. Now I couldent see my face but my opponent said it was red and I looked like I was about to have a vain burst in my forehead. I had my fist clenched so tight around my dice cup that it cracked.

before I could unleash the wrath of the emporer on him the store manager had jumped between us and banned the guy from the store(this seems to happen to alot of people dont it)

I wish I had a pic of the model in the table because it was quite funny.

Never had problems like the ones described here, fortunately. Mostly what happens at the local GW is that some of the kids will nick a model off the table if it is near the edge. I know who to look for, and so I've managed to get several of them banned.

I had the local "Store" kid snip off the tails to all of my Carnifexs before. I put quite a bit of time painting and highlighting these models. And he comes over with clippers and CLIPS THE TAILS. (Short Ends of them)

Now I pinned a bit of them and added the mace/scyth tail to all of my fexs with some greenstuff work. It looks fine now. I didn't see the kid do it, but it was more of a: "He's not looking hahaha" *Destructive Behavior*

Now that same kid sits at home and plays WoW and Magic.... And I have mentally damaged Carnifexs....

Albatross wrote:Man, why is everyone on here so mellow? It's to all of your credit of course, but still...if someone picked up one of my miniatures without asking they'd get a slap as a matter of course! Well, maybe nothing that extreme, but miniatures are so expensive and time consuming to collect/paint etc. the rule should be look with your eyes, not with your hands! That's how I was brought up.

We are so placid because we live in reality. Slap a child, especially one that isn't yours, and you will get introduced to a whole new world of gak you never before knew existed. Have to agree with your rule as stated, however. In general I don't like touching other peoples models, even if my friends ask for help picking some up. I will do it, but I don't like it. I've dropped my own models on accident before, would HATE it if I did the same to someone elses.

BeefyG wrote:LOL nice way to insult the masses alex.

What's with the placidity and repression?

Just slap the kids. You are bigger than them. Actually even if they are bigger and older than you slap them anyway. There is no age limit on learning.

Can you take some pictures or video of this next time you implement it? I would REALLY love ot see it.

grimz wrote:Hmm I wonder what happens if your models were destroyed some how (out of your house) if they would be covered by insurance

Typically no on this side of the pond. Some special insurance policies will cover contents of homes, rentals, and vehicles incase of Something Bad happening, but in general those policies are for the items stated, not what's contained in them. But it is possible to get such things insured, sure. Lloyd's will insure any-fething-thing on earth, for a price.

Auxellion wrote:I had the local "Store" kid snip off the tails to all of my Carnifexs before. I put quite a bit of time painting and highlighting these models. And he comes over with clippers and CLIPS THE TAILS. (Short Ends of them)

Now I pinned a bit of them and added the mace/scyth tail to all of my fexs with some greenstuff work. It looks fine now. I didn't see the kid do it, but it was more of a: "He's not looking hahaha" *Destructive Behavior*

Now that same kid sits at home and plays WoW and Magic.... And I have mentally damaged Carnifexs....

What the feth could have been going through his head ot have motivated him to do that?