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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.

Well ... sometimes the crazy comes out later ...

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?

The wife beat me with them, several times. I was totally surprised at her starting skill level

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.

I thought KC meant physically beaten as well! (no more that he would deserve for the constant beard whippin's the poor lady probably gets)

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

or you could just go out and take the cables going to the starter for her car off then go to work

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.

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).

was it forth it?

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).

So I guess it was worth it? Maybe?

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.

Henners91 wrote:

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.

Dont know how i did it but somehow i went from infinite_arrays post on the mantic games thread to youtube to This:




*bordom is a weird and terrible thing

Yeah seen that before.

Extremely creepy.

In the blooper reel you can see the cameraman holding a hunting knife and a gimp mask in a mirror.

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