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I have not had the unpleasantry of a woman breaking my models.
Though I do have a horrible story about a model getting broken.

While playing a game at my flgs, My heavily converted flying Hive tyrant was broken into pieces. How? well my opponent was not the most fit, he was about as wide as he was tall. He had to sit most of the game. He also had to lean on the table to help himself stand, lean on a table that was flimsy enough on its' own. The Tyrant was near the edge, he leaned on the table and over goes the custom model, onto the floor with a horrible crash.
I held in my anger and just started picking up the pieces (he did not help)

The worst insult, however, was not the fact that he broke my model. but the fact that I got no apology from the guy, a fellow gamer, who knows the prices of these models. He actually had the audacity to blame me for the break. He said the base was to flimsy and the model was badly balanced. (yes it was topheavy, but that is no excuse for knocking a model down)

So I held my anger, continued the game, and as retribution, I tabled him on turn two.

Ok, Screw getting a Girl friend. If this is what they do than i dont want one.

hotsauceman1 wrote:Ok, Screw getting a Girl friend. If this is what they do than i dont want one.

They aren't all that bad. My girlfriend spends her free time looking up fluff so she can discuss the hobby with me. She bought me some nice paint brushes too.

You just gotta find a keeper! (our first date was watching the first 3 robocops)

My miniature pinscher chewed a crisis suit lol

Moronic Nonsense wrote:I have not had the unpleasantry of a woman breaking my models.
Though I do have a horrible story about a model getting broken.

While playing a game at my flgs, My heavily converted flying Hive tyrant was broken into pieces. How? well my opponent was not the most fit, he was about as wide as he was tall. He had to sit most of the game. He also had to lean on the table to help himself stand, lean on a table that was flimsy enough on its' own. The Tyrant was near the edge, he leaned on the table and over goes the custom model, onto the floor with a horrible crash.
I held in my anger and just started picking up the pieces (he did not help)

The worst insult, however, was not the fact that he broke my model. but the fact that I got no apology from the guy, a fellow gamer, who knows the prices of these models. He actually had the audacity to blame me for the break. He said the base was to flimsy and the model was badly balanced. (yes it was topheavy, but that is no excuse for knocking a model down)

So I held my anger, continued the game, and as retribution, I tabled him on turn two.

As punishment you should have put his HQ across the room and made him walk over there to get it. That will teach him.

When Necromunda came out I bought two gangs for myself, Orlock and Cawdor. Once we started playing I used the Orlocks and told my nephew he could use my Cawdor gang. I expelicitely told him that they were my models, he could use, and that they were not to leave my presence. After a few weeks of playing I let him take tht models home, so he could play when I wasn't there and so he could paint them at his leasure. When the campaign ended, I asked him for my models back and he didn't have them. He had sold them at half retail at the FLGS becuase "he" wasn't using them anymore.

Rather recent, took a friend out fishing and as we launched my boat he drove the truck up to park it. I didn't realize that he was a bit "hammered" but somehow while he was out of my sight he managed to cause a "spill" of some of my better painted fantasy models. Griffon, 2 Great Eagles, Dragon and riders all got smashed to peices. As of now I still can't find some of the peices, and I've about given them up for loss, which means that one of the eagles is no longer even usable.

He's not allowed to drink when we go do things like that anymore...

Don't mean too insult her, but she tried too paint one >.>.....

My girlfriend at the time was pissed off that an ex-girlfriend had posted on my livejournal (the facebook of 2002.) She discovered this while I was at work. When I got home she was gone but I found one of my models broken on the floor.

A lone spore mine broken off its base.

I fixed it, painted Tyranids for 2 hours and then she came home and apologized. Win-win.

I hope you guys are dating super models or something. Some of these stories are just crazy.

Deepeyes wrote:
I hope you guys are dating super models or something. Some of these stories are just crazy.

That's what I'm saying?! Who are these girls?! I mean this crap is beyond juvenile, it's certifiable!

If more women played 40k there would be crazy boy freinds doing this sort of thing too. When people are petty like this they try to manipulate you by threatening whats important to you.

Ive had freinds who's bfs/fiance would break tier laptops- like the guy almost cracked them in half. One had her Warcraft account hacked/stolen. A broken windshield, slashed tires. Grafitti on a house. And those are the cases when they just attacked objects and not a person.

As many have mentioned, its best to find someone that enjoys, or at least supports the things you enjoy. A little respect goes a long way

my ex is in Canada, but would love to smash her KISS masks she made for vengance

swampyturtle wrote:Worst that ever happened to me was my mom throwing my centerpieces of my tau army including a forge world battle suit off my dresser and then curb stomping all over them my room. 5 battlesuits and a forge world piece gone. Ill admit, I was pretty much in shock at that point. She then went into the computer room and torn my monitor cables out of the CPU and dropped it down the stairs. Before finally she broke my key board over the railing. That was a bad night

What the hell did you do to warrant that reaction???

And the worst I've had is to come home and find my brother had pulled MANY of my old marines apart...luckily I used superglue so they were easy to fix...but still...

Miss Dee wrote:my ex is in Canada, but would love to smash her KISS masks she made for vengance

This is a Dakka Dakka public service anouncement: "For the sake of your little spacemens stay away from Miss Dee. We now return to our normal programming"

This wasn't done to my models, but I think it fits in anyway.

Lately I've been going through brushes like hell. The bristles have fallen off after just a few painting sessions. I've been thinking that maybe I haven't been treating them properly. I was even about to start a thread here on Dakka about it.

Now I hadn't changed water in the pot for a while so I couldn't "see through" it. When I finally went to change water I found that my girlfriend had put razors in the pot, thus the ruined brushes.

Lesson learned, hehe.

angel of ecstasy wrote:my girlfriend had put razors in the pot, thus the ruined brushes.

...any particular reason?

My wife just tells me if I don't clean up my stuff she will.

Mistress of minis wrote:If more women played 40k there would be crazy boy freinds doing this sort of thing too. When people are petty like this they try to manipulate you by threatening whats important to you.

Who is it that said you dont hear any crazy boyfriend stories is because if you have a crazy boyfriend you most likely dead?

shrike wrote:

angel of ecstasy wrote:my girlfriend had put razors in the pot, thus the ruined brushes.

...any particular reason?

You know... Relationship stuff

angel of ecstasy wrote: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.

Cotton candy is soluble in warm water with a little detergent. Shouldn't harm the acrylic paints (unless you used 'poster' acrylic paints which AREN'T waterproof when dry) and the gak should come right off.

I have nieces who did this to mine.

No crazy stories about girlfriends/wife and gaming stuff. ALL of mine have known I was a gamer from the get-go and didn't see the need to change me or damage my stuff in juvenile displays.

Bat Manuel wrote:Nothing's ever happened to my stuff, but .....A friend of mines girlfriend took an army of his, put it in a box, shook it up, then sprayed green paint all over it.

Isn't that how all ork players build and paint their models?

Didn't happen to me, but sure benefited me. I got a call from someone at a storage place returning my call about looking for warhammer models. Apparently some guy's girlfriend was so fed up with his spending on models that she closed his storage space with alot of his models and told the manager that he could keep trash everything inside. He noticed the Models had some value and found me. Needless to say I pocketed about $800 of models for around $50.

Worst thing that has happened to me was my fault. I was heading over to a friends place to work on some models together. i had a Kit Dakka jet, a Stormtalon i had nearly finished converting into an omni jet (usable as all 3) and the trukk im entering in Arakasi's rally. The Stormtalon just jammed the tail further into the plasticard i had used to make it long enough to count as a jet. the jet just had 2 gun barrels detach. the trukk? 8 pieces. still have not completely reattached everything.

the worst my wife has done is drop a bundle of the sunday paper on the open box containing my vehicles. non of my dreads, Kans, or bikes have an exhaust pipe anymore.

I magnetized some figures to stick to a metal movements tray.
I also forgot that i had put a magnetic catflap in the front door and the girlfriends cat had a nice new magnetic key on her collar!
3 Space Marines where last seen heading into the undergrowth attached to said cat collar!

Nothing bad has happened to me yet ... but my wife has described what she might do if i do something really stupid in our marraige ... so only slightly scared at this point.

hotsauceman1 wrote:Ok, Screw getting a Girl friend. If this is what they do than i dont want one.

My sig grows ever stronger.

Cottonjaw wrote: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....

You are a lucky guy.

My new girl has not played / painted in years so this will be fun....

Frankenberry wrote:I'm wondering if this thread shouldn't be labeled "Self Help: What's mine is mine and bitch, if you touch little Abaddon, I'll rip you in half - A table top gamer's guide to fulfilling and non-psychotic relationships."

This thread makes me wonder why some of my gender seem to be stuck on permanent brat/b***h mode. . . Yikes. If a boyfriend of mine did something terrible like some of these stories to my models, he'd find himself missing some rather important body parts.

Thankfully so far the worst a bf has done was paint my Avatar and told me to "just trust him" until it was done. I'm grateful it ended up fantastic.