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The worse thing I can think of is: I had just finished painting my warboss, complete with a head spiked on the bosspole. My wife came by and I asked what she thought and she replied: "Looks good but isnt the guys neck a little long and thin?"

She thought the spiked head was the warboss'es head.

Phydox wrote:The worse thing I can think of is: I had just finished painting my warboss, complete with a head spiked on the bosspole. My wife came by and I asked what she thought and she replied: "Looks good but isnt the guys neck a little long and thin?"

She thought the spiked head was the warboss'es head.

Come on, finish the story.
You explained it and your wife said "aw, how awful. Let me give you a hand." She took the model and applied her own skills. Next minute, the warboss was spiked-helm-less and holding hands and smiling with the man who's head he had.

You: WAAAAA!
Wife: But they look so cute together

My boyfriend bought me miniatures that looked more suitable for woman/girl grrr. But fortunately he discovered painting warhammers was more to my liking

"Hey Sharazad, I got you a cute model stagecoach that you can paiiii...."

*Sharazad look up from the blood she is painting on a World Eater's chainaxe*
"Pardon me, hun?"

I think damaging someone else's minis is more than just your normal property destruction. Not only you invested money on them, but also time and effort. Sorta like painting or drawing something, then someone else would take a crayon and draw random lines on top of it. You poured a part of yourself on that thing, and it's more offensive (to me, at least) that they would destroy something that you value and spent time to make.

Never had a model-related horror story, mostly because the people in my life knew that I spend time and effort on my minis (plus, it also earns a portion of my income via commissions, aside from graphic illustrations and design). Even my little nephews (ages 3 and 6) would ask my permission first before they touch the minis, and sometimes I let them play with the just-primed models. And even when playing with them they're very careful. Love them to bits.

Although I had an incident during high school when I drew something and a classmate of mine (using a pen, mind you) thought it would be funny to put nipples on said drawing. Badly drawn ones. If I remember correctly I hit him in the face with a hardbound book and it would've ended badly (on my part, since he's a LOT bigger and I was small and skinny) if my friends didn't intervene. I never forgave him.

For me, destroying artwork deliberately is one of those unforgivable things. Thankfully, all the people close to me are either artists themselves or that they understand that painted miniatures, drawings and canvas paintings are things you just. don't. destroy.

Whoa! So many horror story's its just frightening to read! Glad nobody in my life is that insane.

Yeah, my past girlfriends have never been THAT insane to destroy any works that I've done like that. My last girlfriend was even really encouraging about my hobby - she refused to buy me models, but she went to every painting competition I entered, drove me to a few tournaments since I lacked a car, and even made me a custom set of sculpting tools (complete with a themed, hand-made case) to encourage me sculpting.

That said, my most recent ex-girlfriends older brother (who I was friends with for years before we dated) once grabbed one of my Kroot and shoved it in his mouth, and began to chew. Mind you, he was probably 18 or so at the time, and I was 17. It's something my friends still talk about, and I give him a hard time about it every time I see him.


EDIT - I *WISH* he had shoved it into his mind. That would be SO COOL!

Kamsm8 wrote:Yeah, my past girlfriends have never been THAT insane to destroy any works that I've done like that. My last girlfriend was even really encouraging about my hobby - she refused to buy me models, but she went to every painting competition I entered, drove me to a few tournaments since I lacked a car, and even made me a custom set of sculpting tools (complete with a themed, hand-made case) to encourage me sculpting.

That said, my most recent ex-girlfriends older brother (who I was friends with for years before we dated) once grabbed one of my Kroot and shoved it in his mind, and began to chew. Mind you, he was probably 18 or so at the time, and I was 17. It's something my friends still talk about, and I give him a hard time about it every time I see him.

Shoved it into his what?

I'm really impressed with that last girl. I'm kind of curious as to how you broke up - I think I'd ask her to marry me if she approved of my hobby to the point of buying me tools and actually driving me to tournaments.

Locclo wrote:

Kamsm8 wrote:Yeah, my past girlfriends have never been THAT insane to destroy any works that I've done like that. My last girlfriend was even really encouraging about my hobby - she refused to buy me models, but she went to every painting competition I entered, drove me to a few tournaments since I lacked a car, and even made me a custom set of sculpting tools (complete with a themed, hand-made case) to encourage me sculpting.

That said, my most recent ex-girlfriends older brother (who I was friends with for years before we dated) once grabbed one of my Kroot and shoved it in his mind, and began to chew. Mind you, he was probably 18 or so at the time, and I was 17. It's something my friends still talk about, and I give him a hard time about it every time I see him.

Shoved it into his what?

I'm really impressed with that last girl. I'm kind of curious as to how you broke up - I think I'd ask her to marry me if she approved of my hobby to the point of buying me tools and actually driving me to tournaments.

I think he meant 'he shoved it in his nose and chewed'.
And a gf who approved of the painting and sculpting would be nice. Hope things ended on good terms and there's hope to fix things in the future

The worst I have had happen was when one of my friends accidently knocked my proxy Marbo off the table during a game, and his hand and head broke off. I was able to easily re-glue the head and hand, so no harm was done.

Kamsm8 wrote:...once grabbed one of my Kroot and shoved it in his mind, and began to chew....

"Well... I guess that's..."

*Puts on sunglasses*

"...Food for thought."

YEEEEEAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...Sorry, couldn't resist. In regards to myself, though, never had an ex damage them, but I've had plenty tease me about it. Also, mother has a bad eye for which bits are actually still usable and tends to "help" by tossing em into the trash. SOMETIMES I get there in time to save them.

No fisical damage, just sociological damage. Wife likes to look over my shoulder why I paint my orks and call them and me cuite. Me I don't mind but how can you expect your orks to go out and krump some umies skulls after they've been called cuite.

Any time my friend did anything with his Chaos Lord I'd say 'oh how adorable.'

timetowaste85 wrote:

Locclo wrote:

Shoved it into his what?

I'm really impressed with that last girl. I'm kind of curious as to how you broke up - I think I'd ask her to marry me if she approved of my hobby to the point of buying me tools and actually driving me to tournaments.

I think he meant 'he shoved it in his nose and chewed'.
And a gf who approved of the painting and sculpting would be nice. Hope things ended on good terms and there's hope to fix things in the future

Oops, major typo! Hah. He shoved it into his MOUTH. Not mind. Although that would be pretty awesome and neat...

And no, they did not end well, but I think I'm better off. But I appreciate the sentiments, guys.

Syraphym wrote:

"Well... I guess that's..."

*Puts on sunglasses*

"...Food for thought."

YEEEEEAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like you.

Worst my friends have done, nothing.

Worst I have done, intentionally break models in various places when people ask "What happens if they break?". It gets me a lot of wacky reactions. Mostly I keep it to gaunts and warriors, but if people get picky I'll pull a big bug apart. After regluing and spot repairing the paint not a single person has been able to pick the broken ones out from the rest so it must not be so bad.

Oddly my two kids haven't broken anything they know not to mess with daddies toys.

The worst thing my wife ever did was buy me more stuff! i think she does it to keep me quiet...

other then that my cat used to chew anything she could. she'd casually wander over, sniff, then bite the top of whatever victim she'd picked that day.
it got so that if i wanted stuff out i had to keep the flea pump spray bottle around, she HATED that thing and the mere smell would have her running for the stairs. if she got close to a model i'd just plonk the bottle down in front of her.
she did jump up onto a table and onto a painting tray thus catapulting lots of men-at-arms into the air along with many paints.
thankfully most survived.

she was an odd cat. loved to steal pork chops...

I remember something one of my friends did to his own models (it counts!). He played tyranids, but only because we (his friends) all played, and sprayed them all with silver spraypaint (his zoanthrope had paint so thick most of the details weren't visible). We all thought that was ridiculous, so we gave one of them a proper paint job. Which he promptly sprayed silver.

MY Wife is happy with my minis as its a hobby thats stops me annoying the crap out of her....however the proviso is that if I cheat on her she is going to ritually destroy every single one I own....

HaerDalis wrote:MY Wife is happy with my minis as its a hobby thats stops me annoying the crap out of her....however the proviso is that if I cheat on her she is going to ritually destroy every single one I own....

This seems like a fair trade to me...

HaerDalis wrote:MY Wife is happy with my minis as its a hobby thats stops me annoying the crap out of her....however the proviso is that if I cheat on her she is going to ritually destroy every single one I own....

Well you should never cheat anyway.

Well this isn't me personally but my friend has had an awful time of warhammer 40k....

He had just recieved a tau manta as a group present, all his family and friends including me and....

He had to store it in the kitchen as it's vast size and he built it, painted it and it looked fantastic...

His mum decided dinner would be so much better in the kitchen for christmas so she picked it up by the wings...

It snapped both wings and the body fell to the floor and it smashed into a hundred pieces...

She went around the local gaming store and persuaded some guys to help rebuild the manta while he was away at his grans across the borders in England....

He came back and noticed the crack down the middle as soon as he came back and the 5 guys trying to hide from sight...

She burst into tears and had a nervous breakdown, they both did....

the end of his warhammer life...

He quit the same day, christmas day, most of his presents were tau stuff...

anton wrote:
He quit the same day, christmas day, most of his presents were tau stuff...

So..I was reading your post thinking: 'WHAT? Quit? Because one thing broke?!' Then I looked up the price...yikes $1,500? I had no idea something that massive existed. That would be a very disheartening experience!

Especially after his mom went thrugh so much trouble to fix it. Sounds like he is over reatcing to me. Yeahs its expensive but he quit because his mom broke it and then tried her best to fix it?????

Christ. Now that is a spoilt little brat. Just saying. If he got a manta AND a lot of Tau stuff, then his family can't be out of pocket, collaboration of funds or no.

anton wrote:Well this isn't me personally but my friend has had an awful time of warhammer 40k....

He had just recieved a tau manta as a group present, all his family and friends including me and....

He had to store it in the kitchen as it's vast size and he built it, painted it and it looked fantastic...

His mum decided dinner would be so much better in the kitchen for christmas so she picked it up by the wings...

It snapped both wings and the body fell to the floor and it smashed into a hundred pieces...

She went around the local gaming store and persuaded some guys to help rebuild the manta while he was away at his grans across the borders in England....

He came back and noticed the crack down the middle as soon as he came back and the 5 guys trying to hide from sight...

She burst into tears and had a nervous breakdown, they both did....

the end of his warhammer life...

He quit the same day, christmas day, most of his presents were tau stuff...

I read a story like this on 4Chan once.

So...the only thing he noticed was a crack down the middle? And the manta was how badly damaged?
Sounds like something greenstuff can fix. A lot of GS.

Woke up to little brother and sister "painting" in my room, and by painting they meant mixing all of my paints together and dumping them on the floor. 60 bucks in paint later I was back to normal.

My friend was playing around with some of Firestorm Armada Models, waving them in the air making laser noises (pew pew pew) dropped one of them... well......

Not exactly what my girlfriend did to one of my models but what she did to my pride, soul, and what little confidence I had. She's an excellent painter and tried to get her to paint some of my boxes and boxes of unpainted minis, cheap labor, not that she's cheap (covering all my grounds)

Told me she wouldn't and would be a waste of time. Play with them for a few weeks or months then I would be on to something else that is new and shiny.

She's technically not wrong. But she could have been nice about it.


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blessed be thy emperor wrote:Woke up to little brother and sister "painting" in my room, and by painting they meant mixing all of my paints together and dumping them on the floor. 60 bucks in paint later I was back to normal.

YIKES!

Yet another reason to stay single.

In b4 Fox parable.

My brushes being used for arts and crafts.
I have to give my family the "Not all brushes are equal" lecture.
Seriously. They think my stuff=their stuff. But its Their stuff=/=my stuff