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My friend broke my heavy stubber off of my LRBT accidentally and took it home with him. Only just noticed.

When my wife noticed just how many unpainted ones I had....

Finding out that matt ward is doing the next cron dex.

Theft. I used to have a lot of Elysians and flyers.

A shelf holding boxed games such as Space Hulk, Necromunda, Heroquest etc collapsed, smashing a FW Warhound I'd only just finished putting back together aftera cat related accident and also obliterating (literally shattering) a FW greater chaos dragon.

I just closed the door in shock and went to bed.

I was discussing this with a friend after posting, and he had a good one to add:

His newly painted Khorne Daemon Prince was killed in a match and placed on a chair due to lack of space on the table....Well, someone didn't see it and sat on it.

Luckily, it only broke at the ankles and was easily repaired

I loaned a buddy a trio of Chaos Rhinos and both of my Vindicators. They were playing on the floor of my apartment when I hear a sickening crunching noise; one of my Rhinos had just been stepped on. I guess my friend's foot failed to penetrate AV11, because the Rhino itself was okay; only the treads, spikes, cupola, and twin-linked bolter snapped off. It was an easy glue, but the spikes now look completely off.

My dice

Playing a game with a friend an he lightly tossed me an objective marker, which was a small resin cast crate. it promptly flew to the opposite side of the table from me and severed a plague marine in half.
lucky for me being in half doesnt stop plague marines :Þ

Worst thing to happen to my minis?

Getting played by me.

Nothing really apart from the odd broken sword of a Plague champion...

I had 2000 pts of fully painted chaos SM with 5 metal termies and a metal dread pinched at a tournament once, worse i was in the last semi finals and had to drop out cuz i didnt have a replacment army. Never found the guy how did that. (weirdly did a trade with 2500 pts of chaos with an infamous user on here n got ripped off, chaos really hate me lol)

gloomygrim wrote:
I had 2000 pts of fully painted chaos SM with 5 metal termies and a metal dread pinched at a tournament once, worse i was in the last semi finals and had to drop out cuz i didnt have a replacment army. Never found the guy how did that. (weirdly did a trade with 2500 pts of chaos with an infamous user on here n got ripped off, chaos really hate me lol)

AAAh that sucks, that now reminds me of when I went to a tournament and some person was taking the mick out of my decent painted, fully converted nurgle deathguard army and knocked one of my obliterators onto the floor and walked off...

The puppy/kitty combo. My cat will knock them off the table into the waiting jaws of my dog.

I have since learned of way of avoiding this, but a great many Orks were lost to the "Jaws of the house Wolf"

NagothDaCleaver wrote:The puppy/kitty combo. My cat will knock them off the table into the waiting jaws of my dog.

I have since learned of way of avoiding this, but a great many Orks were lost to the "Jaws of the house Wolf"

My cat likes to play "chew the paintbrush while human is painting" game...then tries to eat my PopTarts...damned cat...

Two Dogs, 3 Brothers, and my lovely mother encroach upon my guardsmen. Constantly.

I dropped my box full of guard down the stairs(accident of course)and a few guys lost arms or came off the bases, nothing nightmarish.

My friend however, was carrying about 2000 points of tau in his arms (Derp) and tripped down a flight of stairs and landed on most of them, after a cursing run, he solemnly picked up the models, and went home, spent hours re building and re painting some of them. Most of them look like they should be dead, wish they were dead, or in a Picasso painting.

Im fairly sure my painting is the worst thing to regularly happen to my minis.

Once I was playing an apocalypse size game at a friend's house on the floor, years before apocalypse came out.

We werent used to all the models, and I lost track of a land raider.... Then found it when I sat down... there's nothing like digging an assault cannon out of your kiester. i still have a scar. I sold the broken pieces to a friend who plays orks. I got a new raider, and a week later.... SAME THING! I had placed it, and forgot to look when I sat down, and CRUNCH!

words cannot express how mad one gets when he kills his own expensive models.

A friend of mine once left a box of about 1500 points of Necrons on the roof of his car... and then started driving. They got pretty smashed up but I'm pretty sure it's all fixed now.

Not too terrible, but I got rear ended on the way home from my FLGS the other day. Knocked the box with my Orks in it around a bit, and some of the black reach boyz I haven't glued together yet are now headless.

Finding out that matt ward is doing the next cron dex.

Get over yourself dude. Not only is that not funny, the jokes been made already, and he's not a bad writer.

Anyway, the worst thing that happened to my minis was I used the wrong primer, and now my Space Marines look like they half-turned into chocolate.

Yeah, those pets can be real havoc on minis.

I dropped a book on a wych. And worse yet after I put the arms back on, the poor girl had to suffer through being painted by a colorblind monkey who hasn't held a brush since fifth grade whose hands shake as if they were attached to a paint shaker.
...My poor models are ugly cause I suck at painting is what I'm saying, but aside that one book incident they've survived so far.
I suppose it's just a matter of time.

Neglect....

Well, i've lost a Dread foot.... My little brother dropped it on the floor, it was already in pretty poor condition from when i acquired it, so the Dread fell of the base, one foot stayed on the base, one foot fell of and has disappeared....

And my tyrgon i painted (nearly finished, needed a bit more detail work done) i have lent to a friend since he plays Nids and i don't.... And its all chipped, and a couple of the scything talons ends have broken off. (Because he just keeps all his models lose in two boxes, his aren't painted....

The worst to happen to my guys was when a lamp fell on top of my armies on parade board so most of the models got chipped and the terrain came off.

Well as ive only just started playing again after a 5 year break ive got most of my stuff in shoes boxes etc and my dad the other day thought it was a pait of my footie boots and he picked up a box of full metal based and painted autocannon teams for the IG and rolled them over to move them....

...I opened the box in horror and the casualties to my poor guys was about as bad as when they got shot by two squads of Dire Avengers using that double shot ability in the last game. Yeah they were munched :(

Ouch, looking at some of these it seems I've really got off lightly. There's a lot of pet related damage too, but fortunately for me my dog isn't allowed upstairs, and that's where all my minis are

Anyway, the worst that has happened to me is accidently knocking a small box of around 40 ork minis, that was sitting on my windowsill, out the window. Fortunately, damage wise, they fell onto the conservatory which is below my window, so it isn't far to fall, and slid down into the gutter. So none sustainaned any serious damage, they just got a little wet. And it did take AGES getting them all out

I have nightbringer in table and somone drops 1,5l coca cola bottle over it and it goes to peaces (Im looking at you the unforgiven!) and then person who have dropped bottle, gets nervous and steps accidentally on to my second lith in the floor ( this is from my head).

In a sad, spiteful way, I love hearing all these stories about dogs eating minis.

I scared the bejeezus out of my dog with a very spiky ork when he was a puppy. Hasn't been near the miniatures since.

A certain clumsy friend of mine did manage to destroy my beautifully painted and converted KFF mek though.

On the day after it was finished...

I didn't even get to use it; he borrowed it and within three seconds, it was smashed on the floor...
Que sera, sera.

Set my army out on a table, someone at my house then proceeded to sit on the table, a lot of glue was used that day.

Also, I forgot to do up one of the clips on my case (I know I'm a fail), I had also put my rulebook / codexes in the case as well as my mini's and it was too much for the other catch, and as I was standing up with the strap on my shoulder all of the mini's (fully painted to a decent standard) ended up gushing onto the pavement.