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Henners91 wrote:

porkchop806 wrote:when ever i forget to clean up...if i'm not careful if my wife decides to clean the house what every out goes in the trash needless to say i have my iwn hobby room now that shes not allowed to clean in and i had to buy a whole new paint range and brush set

If only women didn't enjoy cleaning so much :-/

I lost of ton of stuff during my breaup with my ex. Including:
A battle company of RT01 beakies
A battle company of mixed 2nd and 3rd edition marines
Approx 30x marine vehicle accessory sprues

Do women have a revenge center in the brain that needs to be satisfied on breakup by killing as many miniature effigies of the man they just broke up with as they can? Hands off the little spacemens ladies!
I've never had an unamicable break up, so i don't know.

that sh*t craaaay!

Well, as a result of my mother (and my being sixteen) I don't think many people have access to the models that I have, other than me and mine.

Once, however I decided to throw out some old puzzles to make room for some models on a shelf (the gaming room is bursting at the seams with junk, but I'm not allowed to throw anything out of course.) When my mother found out, we had a screaming match (also quite common in our household) followed by her throwing a diorama of a damaged tiger tank into a window, shattering it.

Ironically, the damaged tiger tank was... undamaged... but the window certainly wasn't. I also had to pay for it to be replaced, for what that's worth.

that's not too bad, my iPad has seen far worse punishment than my models have.

I hear you about Ipads and laptops etc Scipio, I went away for the weekend and came home to find my $2,800 laptop on the floor behind a couch and not working. Funny that no one knew what happened to it. $700 later it was working again.

bit off topic sorry but I'm still not over it to this day lol.

Bullockist wrote:Do women have a revenge center in the brain that needs to be satisfied on breakup by killing as many miniature effigies of the man they just broke up with as they can? Hands off the little spacemens ladies!
I've never had an unamicable break up, so i don't know.

Yes, some women do have a revenge centre in their brain and they can do A WHOLE LOT WORSE than keep/steal/break/sell your mini's. There are guys out there who haven't seen their kids in years because they were kidnapped off them by their ex and the state helped them do it.


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Scipio Africanus wrote:Well, as a result of my mother (and my being sixteen) I don't think many people have access to the models that I have, other than me and mine.

Once, however I decided to throw out some old puzzles to make room for some models on a shelf (the gaming room is bursting at the seams with junk, but I'm not allowed to throw anything out of course.) When my mother found out, we had a screaming match (also quite common in our household) followed by her throwing a diorama of a damaged tiger tank into a window, shattering it.

Ironically, the damaged tiger tank was... undamaged... but the window certainly wasn't. I also had to pay for it to be replaced, for what that's worth.

that's not too bad, my iPad has seen far worse punishment than my models have.

So what you're telling me is she broke the window and then MADE YOU pay for it.

You guys have some pretty frikkin' unhealthy relationships if your wives/girlfriends are sabotaging your hobbies/ throwing away minis/etc.

My fiancee just got me a $50 gift certificate to GW for my 30th b-day. I have a whole section of the office for my hobby stuff, and that's only because the room in the basement just to be my "man-cave" isn't done yet. We also LARP together, and in a month are getting married in a medieval-themed wedding.

Seriously, if any of you have significant others who think they can dictate what you can do with a healthy hobby like you are somehow under their thumb, you need to rethink why you are with them.

Update time!

I showed my Girlfriend GW models.

She told me she's seen these before. Turns out 2 of her 3 previous flames played. I played both of them.

The question is: Did they have bigger "armies" and does this make you feel inadquate?

You can tells us, just let it all go.......we're here to help.

One of my ex's once got so angry she backhanded one of my Warmachine 'jacks. The solid-metal Mercenaries Mangler. She cut her hand open on the mace/shoulderblade, doing little damage to the model aside from covering it with blood. One super-sized band-aid later, and she leant to keep away from the heavy ones and only smack the little plastic ones...

Well in my usual attempt to seduce women I was showing off some of my award winning painted empire. She was looking over some of my lighter models as I got out my old school steam tank. Now it should be known that I love my steam tank. I refuse to play fantasy games where it becomes impossible to field it and it will always be the center piece of my glorious empire.

anywho I passed it to her and I guess she misjudged the weight of the behmoth metal tank and dropped it. Well the tank survived pretty well but the spearmen regiment that it landed on didn't fair so well. To make matters worse the tank rolled through them then fell off the coffee table that they were on and on to my equally metal greatswords. I could only blink at the tragedy! The funny part was that I was thinking less of the damage and more of how I would fight my opponent the next day without my solid spearmen-greatsword right flank!

The nice thing was that she offered to help put them back together (after realizing that I couldn't simply "throw them out"). Superglue got revenge for me.

AegisGrimm wrote:You guys have some pretty frikkin' unhealthy relationships if your wives/girlfriends are sabotaging your hobbies/ throwing away minis/etc.

My fiancee just got me a $50 gift certificate to GW for my 30th b-day. I have a whole section of the office for my hobby stuff, and that's only because the room in the basement just to be my "man-cave" isn't done yet. We also LARP together, and in a month are getting married in a medieval-themed wedding.

Seriously, if any of you have significant others who think they can dictate what you can do with a healthy hobby like you are somehow under their thumb, you need to rethink why you are with them.

Well thats the problem. Guys just tend to put up with it and shrug it off. They don't think "I need to get out of this now". Meanwhile it has become fashionable in media to belittle men, encourage women to look down on them, etc, etc. Don't believe me? Just read what horrible advice those glossy magazines give. They'll tell you that working late is a sign of cheating and then give advice on how to get revenge against the poor sod who was probably just working late.

My girlfriend hasn't done anything to my toys, purely because I let her know if she does attempt to break it she'll be dragged, by her ankles down the road until she realises, that's not how you play with them...

For my parents, apart from hoovering up a few bits and breaking a couple here and there, nothing too bad Judging by some of these stories I'd say I got off lucky

I think a dog toy got tossed at my hobby workbench once, by accident...

Erm......how do i put this. In the UK tossing might mean something different to what you might want Balance?

Toss and jerk can mean the same thing here.

So to clarify who did what to who?


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Ignore that, I missed the toy part of the story!

Yeah, I think he would've won the thread if "toy" wasn't there.

I had just finished up an Ork Deffdread for a painting competition that was coming up, My girlfriend at the time asked to see it. after she picked it up she was looking at it, it slipped out of her hands and hit the floor hard....All of the exhausts snapped off, and 2 arms.

I managed to fix it. Thankfully Ork vehicles can take a beating and look like it's meant to look like that. And the upside of the story was I won the competition as well

Marry her, she have "the hand" for it...

We live with several cats and dogs... I had been working on a terrorgeist and had left it out on the table to dry. BUT i forgot to close the door to the room properly. The cat knocked it to the floor. then the dog decided it would make a fun new chewtoy. It was about 80% done. had to buy a new mini and start over.

A friend of mine came over with his daughter who was eating cotton candy. I was just chilling with my mate and let the kid look around in the flat. After they left all the models on my desk were shiny and sticky from her cotton candy hands, and the gak won't go away. Like gloss varnish with tiny bits of sugar. Not great, is it.

I heard this from my friend the other day...

His fiance was mad at him for something and while holding their child, she picked up a Deathwing terminator (painted by a Golden Damon winner) and did the Bic lighter flick with her thumb. I cringed and asked "WTF is wrong with her?", as we share the same painter friend and both play Deathwing. He was livid. I said resolve that situation and discuss that the "dollies" are off limits in arguements. He then revealed his Chaplain and a squad and a half of terminators are MIA. I gently wept inside...

This thread is a reminder of one of the cardinal rules of manhood: don't stick your in crazy.

I let my ex fiance paint my emperors children...

worst. mistake. ever.

Now they are painted rave colors with walmart paint.

Kung Fu Hamster wrote:don't stick your in crazy.

That's a terribly boring way to go through life. You don't marry crazy, though...

Kung Fu Hamster wrote:This thread is a reminder of one of the cardinal rules of manhood: don't stick your in crazy.

QFT

I sold an award winning 3rd Ed. 40K DE army to an acquaintance, who already had a big force. Raiders, full Reaver squad, full Scourges, Rampage conversion, it had the works. He hadn't fully paid me after a couple months so I tracked him down and got him to agree to sell them back. I knew something was up when he answered the door, kind of sheepish, and said 'I got some bad news man'.

His girlfriend/wife/whatever and he had gotten into a huge fight, and she, like an enraged Imperator Titan, literally stomped on his DE army AND the one I had sold him. I'm not sure I even said anything. I just took my money, and the shattered remnants of both our DE armies and left. It wasn't pretty... all those fragile, thin DE...

I had a Be'lakor model sitting on my display stand that I had painted for a contest at my FLGS that had actually won second prize....my dog bumped the stand and it came crashing down, breaking off the tail and one of the wings..I had to put the whole thing back together and it never quite looked the same

TheBrandedOne wrote:I haven't had any terrible accidents, but.

Do any of you find that when you show a finished model to someone they like to hold it, admire it, then subsequently pretend they almost dropped it just to get a rise out of you? People do this to me all the damn time. "Wow that looks really good... WHOOPS!" *make jerky sudden motion with hand as if I almost dropped the model* Then smile about it when they see the look of sheer horror on your face.

Am I the only one who gets subjected to this torment?

Also, I had a friend do that in the car with my brother, who had just finished making a small stone well out of clay - it was painted, flocked, etc. And the guy goes "Oh WHOOPS!" exaggeratedly but then goes "Oh man!" and starts laughing hysterically, as he had ACTUALLY dropped it out the window onto the road. We pulled over and managed to grab the piece before it was run over, but it was chipped badly and needed some repair work.

People at my gaming club pretend that they're going to eat the model.............. That's why we are Ordo Ineptus.

Wow. Some of you date some crazy women.

My cat knocked a lonely Termagant on the floor. My wife (fiancee at the time) accidentally stepped on it. She gave it to me, said she was sorry. I assured her that it really wasn't a big deal, that I had dozens of these little guys, and that it was probably the cat's fault anyway.

I tossed him, but she picked him out of the garbage secretly, brought it to my FLGS, and bought me a box of termagants.

I think I'll keep her around....