Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

And a red carpet.

Cordoning off the tables is a good idea, provided there's a lot of space in the FLGS. In my local GW, it could get incredibly cramped on a battle day. The tables in the front of the shop are so close to the product shelves that cutting off the area wouldn't work for my situation.

Mind, at least the gaming boards at the back of the shop have a little more space.

Touching my minis is like touching my groin, only I and a very select group of people are allowed to.

WOW I have to say (knock on wood) iv broken more of my own than had others do it but the stories of the children all I can say is wow I have two boys 8 and 9 and I and my wife both play and collect my boys have been in and out of GW stores all of there lives and know not to touch or handle any ones figs or ill break there fingers off (or so iv threatened would not really do it to messy) parents should keep an eye on there kids and take responsibility for there actions. More on topic like I said I do more damage than any one ells I was looking over dkok rider last night thinking about how to paint it and thinking how the basing was the best I had done so far when it slipped from my hand and fell to the concrete floor below and I scooped up the pieces and tried not to cry.

Ratius wrote:Touching my minis is like touching my groin, only I and a very select group of people are allowed to.

Same here. On a different note, I once molested my own Kroot Shaper. I had got him as a door prize, for reasons I don't know why, and man is it hard to get his gun glued on. Heaps of super-glue and precious time were wasted. And then we tried to have an inschool game, whch didn't happen for obvious reasons, and one of my friends plays Tau, so I was going to lend it to him, but as I was showing it to him, I dropped it and the gun comes right off. I was pissed a said a word not suitable for the ears of little siblings.

As for in-store molesters,, always carry masking tape and a piece of paper saying 'I need 1 brain' with you when going to your FLGS. What to do with them to a model breaker is obvious.

Suffering from mild OCD also dosent help much, I've actually washed models after people touching them.

Sort of like a cockroach.

Last night, after our 2000 point Eldar/Black Templar game, my buddy dropped his wraithlord onto his tile floor, breaking it cleanly into all of the component pieces.

Nothing permanently damaged, but he'll have to reglue.

And that was after successfully keeping his 2 year old away from the table the entire game.

He kept calling my rhinos Choo-Choo and reaching for it to put it on his train set.

This thread is making me never want to take my models from my house... ever...

Although I'm tempted, whenever I play a game in a public space next, to make a sign that says: "You break my models, you owe me new ones... plus a $10 stupidity fee."

Back when I was younger and I still lived with my parents we had a dog, a cute and fluffy welsh corgi. One day, me and a friend were playing WHFB on the floor, since we didn't have a large enough table. As we were crouching there, I suddenly heard a scratching sound approaching. It was the dog, running towards us all excited about something. She came charging at full speed towards the collection of minis, terrrain and dice and... stopped. She sniffed at the stuff closest to her, and then carefully walked around the battle area to us.

And as far as I remember, during all the other battle we fought on the floor, the dog never even knocked anything over.

to make a sign that says: "You break my models, you owe me new ones... plus a $10 stupidity fee."

Dont bother with subtelty:

to make a sign that says: "You break my models, I'll break your face".

well some weeks ago I was playing at the local store, a couple of teenagers (16 and 15 respectivly) get closed by and start peeking inside my box where I had some units that got killed on the battlefield.

Luckily I looked them just in time when, aside from peeking, they were trying to pick up a couple of my Tactical Marines. The poor Imperial Fists were looking at me desperatly while they understood that their pain glove could do nothing to monsters as the size of their master.

"Hey, you should ask before picking up without authorization you know!"

the couple blushed, placed the Marines back in the box and never tried again to get close my miniatures without permission. Perhaps it was due to the fact that a lot of people heard the rage eheheh.

I don't paint well , but dammit, before getting one of my miniatures please ask. I do that and I've recieved a no just for delicate pieces or freshly glued after they sustained damage.

KOS wrote:
"Hey, you should ask before picking up without authorization you know!"

Really?

You actually used the word "authorization"?

Am I the only person in the world that would find that kind of bizarre? I mean "Please ask before you touch, guys." conveys it pretty well without sounding quite so authoritarian. Maybe it's just me.

Back on topic:
Thankfully my miniatures have only ever been the subject of my own stupidity/clumsiness. Once I played a nice big points game on a specially made table at out local GW. It was a big stepped mountainside they were using for a series of in-store "assualt the mountain fortress" type games. My carnifex (the oldschool metal screamer-killer type) managed to fall from the top of the fortress, down onto a warrior brood and then rolled down the slope, picking up a unit of gaunts and a load of stealers on the way. Massive nid-pile, and amazingly only one breakage (warrior lost an arm).

Seeing as how it was a friendly (and already silly) game, We called it a landslide and removed them from play

M.

Ok, got one!
At my friends, he recently got the AoBR set, os i was showig him and a couple of friends how to play properly (they played house rules, hadnt seen a rule book before)
Anyways, we were setting up, his ultramarines v my necrons. We were setting up on the floor (no tables are big enough for our man games!), his friends watching, ready for the lesson
Suddenly, his stupid-ass of a brother jumps off the sofa to check his DoW game on the computer. He jumps - straight on top of a pile of warriors and 4 dstroyers, narrowly missing my already deployed squad of 20 warriors. Luckly only 2 warriors broke (thier backs) and a desroyer lost a gun arm. My friends helped me to glue the men back together and the lesson went on.
Lucky for his brother i didnt have a on me.

mockingbirduk wrote:

KOS wrote:
"Hey, you should ask before picking up without authorization you know!"

Really?

You actually used the word "authorization"?

Am I the only person in the world that would find that kind of bizarre? I mean "Please ask before you touch, guys." conveys it pretty well without sounding quite so authoritarian. Maybe it's just me.

I did , because some miniatures dissapeared in that store. It's not the fault of the store keeper, but of the youngers. I've never had problems, but others did, so it's better to be a bit... authoritarian rather than get back home and find out that some of your miniatures dissapeared without notice.

@liquidjoshi. What kind of idiot leaves a DoW game unattended? Obviously the kind who relizes his idiocy and jumps through a game someone else finds fun.

To my immense shame and guilt, I have a model molester story of my own. A kid at my GW, who I've only ever met once, was letting me and some of my friends have a look at his Ghazghull model while we were playing a game in store. After we all took a look at the model, he placed it on the table and walked off to get lunch. The game shortly came to a close and my friends packed up their minis and walked off to the painting table. I decided to take another look at Ghazghull and stupidly picked him up by the body, the super-glue breaking, the base clattering to the floor. I irrationally paniced, grabbed the base, put it back on the table and precariously balanced Ghazghull on top, packed up my stuff and ran off.

Sorry guys, not cool, I know (actually, it could have been much, much worse if I'd picked him up by the base).

I've left my minis and paints at my local GW on numerous occaisions, be it the gaming table, the hobby table or packed away in a corner, I've never had anything broken or go missing while I've gone to lunch. All the regulars at the store is very trusting of each other.

I've also played games at school a bunch of times, I had a whole period on Wednesday afternoon where we just played 40k and LotR whilst everyone else was playing inter-school sport, sure I got a whole bunch of grief from my classmates about it, but I'd never had anything go missing or get broken. The teacher even joined in and decided to play a test game of 40k. He had owned The Battle for Macragge for years without even opening it (sorry, a bit off topic there).

I wish I hadn't read this thread it's making me paranoid...

Saying that last night I took my new daemons army out for a test drive at the local club. Playing against a friend and regular opponent when a guy comes ups and asks us if when we are finished one of us will play him and sits down to wait for us to finish. Well I'm rolling for reserves and my Daemon Prince finally decides to grace the board with his presence . The guy waiting to play picks up my daemon prince by pinching the two wings together and passes it to me. This entire thread flashes through my mind I lose it slightly 'not by the f"£$%&g wings it's rather delicate' but I'm lucky and it survives the mauling. After the game we are setting up for another game (including 'handsy') and he decides without being asked to pass me my painstakingly painted plaguebearers by the handfull as if they are green army men and not painted metal models with very chippable paint. Again this thread fills my mind with horror 'F%^k I'll get them, just step away' looks of hurt from a guy who just plain don't understand the damage done by reading this thread, or his potential to damage my models and my potential to verbally rip him a new one.

Curse this thread and curse 'handsy'

I've never had anything bad happen to my minitures, as i don't play games much, but i have never understood how people forget the two facts of warhammer/40k miniture:
1. they are expensive
2. alot of work goes into them, no matter the owners skill

so if its not yours don't touch

as all good mothers (the majority of mothers of bratty, idiot, fat, rude kids do not fall under this umbrella) say "look with your eyes, not your hands"

Strange, on my FLGS all the kids have models painted even better than mine (almost, but still good), and they treat other peoples models good. Hell, im talking about 9 year olds!

Automatically Appended Next Post:

BluntmanDC wrote:
bratty, idiot, fat, rude kids

I know you are, but what im i

No, but seriusly, i have never broken anyones minis beside my own (luckily, my 40k armys are entire plastics ).

JonasE wrote:they treat other peoples models good. Hell, im talking about 9 year olds!

Thats probably the good thing about growing up in norway for JonasE. type in youtube jeremy kyle and you see the generation of idiots that has formed, i may sound 21 going on 70, but we have some right fools. but every one in GW YORK are friendly, fun and polite when it comes to other peoples models

hancock.tom wrote:At least they were kids. The perpetrator in my case was late 30s at least.

What possesses people to pick up models by the weapon, anyway? It seems so natural to so many people but it is the last thing I would think of to pick up a model with.

i know i mean i ALWAYS ask permission to pick up a model and even then i ONLY pick it up BY THE BASE. i mean seriously i'd probably get kicked out my store if someone did what the kid did that's finger started bleeding because he picked up that model and broken two!


Automatically Appended Next Post:

combatmedic wrote:the most vivid experience I'v had has was in the middle of a game, a kid picked up two of my terminators, off the play field mind you, and proceeded to smash them together in a battle of adolescent stupidity and Cheeto finger mayhem. One of the Termies assault cannons snapped, and the others power sword popped off.
I pulled them out of his hands and got to his eye level, and said as softly as I could, "The next time I see you Im going to rip off your hands and shove them so far up your nose you'll be smelling Cheetos till your 50."

Kid never came back.

tbh i could imagine someone saying that so calmly its almost unnatural but i can only imagine it because the manager at my GW has the calmest voice in the WORLD seriously its sooo funny.

Just got back from the tournament gamers night at my local GW. Holidayhalflife and I thought we would give it a try to get some practice for the doubles tournament in January. Took a wander round to see what was going on and noticed a game setting up with a nice dark eldar army As we watched A guy, not one of the players, picked up one of the dark eldar vehicles to admire the paint job only to drop it on a unit of infantry. The crew scattered into the unit and the dropper received some choice insults from the player. Now to give the guilty party his due he did apologise and set to reattaching he figures but still. Confirmed my prejudices about in-store gaming. Think I will stick to playing with my own little group. Couldn't bear to see my precious mandollies molested like that.

You know what I don't see on here are any stories of the dreaded gut-sweep, aka - overhanging shirt tentacles. I know one guy in particular who has smashed multiple models, not by touching them, but by standing there, watching the game, and then brushing against them with his gut or overhanging sweater, knocking them onto the floor without even realizing. Totally accidental. Still horrible.

Have had next to no trouble with Young 'Uns. I find growling helps keep grabby hands at bay.

It seems older gamers have caused more damage.

Case 1 - While playing Battletech, a 20-something twit decides to pick up a converted Mech. Didn't ask, and I politely asked him to put it down. He claims "Nothing will happen." then preceeds to place it on the table and break off 3 parts. Being the understanding guy I am I tipped the corner of the 3 pound stainless steel clipboard I was holding onto his hand. As he rubbed the bruise I told him "Guess you were wrong."

Case 2 - Before GW released the new LR kit, I grew tired of waiting and scratchbuilt one, also from stainless steel. A 30+ year old sees it says "Wow, a Land Raider."Slides his hand underneath to pick it up and promptly drops 12 1/2 pounds of steel onto his foot. I picked it up, put it back on the table as he curses me out, to which I replied. "If you had asked I could have told you to use both hands carefully."

Case 3 - At a local tourney, after the event and prize winners are being declared, a 36 year old decides gravity is to much to bear and slides his ass up on the edge of a table...a folding-leg style table...with 5 peoples armies on it. Thankfully, my army wasn't one of them, but his weight actually broke the legs and 10'000 points of armies met hard floor. His defense "That shouldn't have happened." I pointed out to him that it was a table, not a chair or a bench, therefore it wasn't designed for sitting.

Funny enough, I have never had a problem with my niece, from her earliest years, she understood the difference between 'toys' and 'models' and it was only explained to her once...at age 3. Now she's older, she does question my sanity on occasion for the price on some of my models though.

As to the Chaos cat theory, my oldest has a habit of getting on the table and either having a nap in an open area or looking at both armies then flipping my opponents RoughRiders over. She has never done a thing to my minis.

Cheers.

First post

Hi, Im FM Ninja and im addicted to plastic...

Only joking

In our FLGS everybody just leaves other peoples models alone their are other tines (curse you damn Edinburgh Festival) where you get lots of tourists come in but the little kids dont bother they just anoy the other kids their is a small (5-6) group of us who trust each other and will look out for each others models.
but the only horror story was me as the curprit: one of our friends is a bit slow so we decided to play "hide Ghazghkull" with him. this went on for about 3mins with Ghazghkull ending up inside a stormlords troop hold. at this point Daryll (slow one) asked for him back so we said we didn't have him. he said to take him out the tank so me, being clever, SHOOK THE TANK. I broke all the banner poles daryll still hasn't forgivin me, luckly gazghull wasn't painted much so it was't that big a problem

FM.

1. Procure contact poison.
2. Build up and immunity to said poison.
3. Coat models with poison.
4. Watch little jerks flop around on the ground in a pool of their own vomit.

Here's one you might find disturbing.

I was playing at my local GW. My opponent: Spess Mehreenz. I was playing Orks. To make a long story short, I was flooring him. Now comes the fun part.

I was running Ghazghkull. Ghaz is a big metal model, therefore Ghaz is heavier than most models. Ghaz threw me off my chair and, at the same time, embedded his horns in my forehead after my opponent threw him at me. It probably doesn't need to be said that it was a painful game. Won me some stitches, it did. Ghaz, on the other hand, was completely intact, and has some blood on his horns now "ta show dat he's been doin' some killin'!"

So this technically isn't a model molester horror story, but a player molester horror story. Regardless, a horror story nonetheless.

Nofasse 'Eadhunta wrote:Here's one you might find disturbing.

I was playing at my local GW. My opponent: Spess Mehreenz. I was playing Orks. To make a long story short, I was flooring him. Now comes the fun part.

I was running Ghazghkull. Ghaz is a big metal model, therefore Ghaz is heavier than most models. Ghaz threw me off my chair and, at the same time, embedded his horns in my forehead after my opponent threw him at me. It probably doesn't need to be said that it was a painful game. Won me some stitches, it did. Ghaz, on the other hand, was completely intact, and has some blood on his horns now "ta show dat he's been doin' some killin'!"

So this technically isn't a model molester horror story, but a player molester horror story. Regardless, a horror story nonetheless.

Someone threw Ghaz model at your head? you got stitches and the model didnt break?

I dont believe -_-

The other day in my friendly local gaming store, a horror story of still packeged models, this guy walks in with his three kids the 2 or 3 year old runs over to the chaos space marines section and starts pulling them of the wall. the dad stands there and sais "stop doing that" the kid doesnt stop.

later when they left the manger had to clean up the floor, cursing all the way.

not realy a horror story, but still a lack of respect for things that aint theres.

Lord Maleval wrote:

As to the Chaos cat theory, my oldest has a habit of getting on the table and either having a nap in an open area or looking at both armies then flipping my opponents Rough Riders over. She has never done a thing to my minis.

Cheers.

The funniest part was the intense scrutiny she gave my stuff before she knocked over my rough riders.

My fault
You also forgot to mention my incident with your land speeder. After measuring distance with my tape measure i started to let it reel back in over the table and it bent over and snagged my opponents land speeder. The flight base with broke as well as the step railings came off. Luckily my friend was understanding and i was out of range of his clip board.

I have had my scratch built defiler knocked out of my hand accidentally which broke one leg at the joint.