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I joked with a kid at my club once - he had a habit of touching people's stuff - without asking - and "accidentally" breaking it.

"You break one of mine, I break one of your bones. There are 206 bones in the human body. Your move." It was a bluff. But many people can't really tell when I'm kidding or not.

He never touched my stuff again. I never had my bluff called.

My wife knows not to touch my stuff.
I know not to piss her off because she gets mean when she gets mad.

The worst thing she has done was to MAKE ME BUY the fortified manorhouse kit AND PAINT IT FOR HER, and then some models to go into it like a proper doll's house.

I've got a hard life, I know.


Happy wife, happy life.

Wow some of these stories are seriously insane. Its like you're dating a woman but with the brain of a psychotic cat. On LSD.

Lucky for me my wife has never done anything to my models, intentionally or by accident. However she has her own variation on the age-old 'woman's favorite question'

Do you love me?
Yes, of course.
More than your orks?
... Yes
More than orks riding bikes?
Yesss?
More than orks in their new planes? More than orks on vacation? (wut) etc etc for the next 10 minutes

She's not insecure or anything she thinks its funny (weird sense of humor).

My 'ex' wife decided one day on her hormonal time of the month, to throw out my load of Dark Eldar that i had painted and they were out of the way from the kids and her, i found the broken Dark Eldar and buried them with a grave stone, the 'Ex' is buried next to them in an unmarked grave.

Doofry wrote:My 'ex' wife decided one day on her hormonal time of the month, to throw out my load of Dark Eldar that i had painted and they were out of the way from the kids and her, i found the broken Dark Eldar and buried them with a grave stone, the 'Ex' is buried next to them in an unmarked grave.

While funny in some dark way, I hope this is partially untrue.

Yeah it's no reason to bury perfectly good DE, just make do and mend.

The rest of the post was spot on though!

When I split wiv ma hubby he left a lot of stuff wiv me incl a lot of his beloved mini's, he came to pick a load of them up, which I had flung in a plastic box. when he came to pick them up I dropped the box at his feet with some force you could hear some break.. i saw his eyes well up.... vengance is sweet!!!!!!!!


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

ofc it will Dee, I will paint yas nosey along with every part of me... Issa makes messes

Tazzy wrote:When I split wiv ma hubby he left a lot of stuff wiv me incl a lot of his beloved mini's, he came to pick a load of them up, which I had flung in a plastic box. when he came to pick them up I dropped the box at his feet with some force you could hear some break.. i saw his eyes well up.... vengance is sweet!!!!!!!!


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

ofc it will Dee, I will paint yas nosey along with every part of me... Issa makes messes

Note to self ............ raid hospital fer hand paper

Only horror story I have, me and my mum were having an argument, and she decided that a box that held my CSM should go flying, she threw it as hard as she could against the wall down the hallway, the landraider flew out halfway down the hall way and bounced off both the wall and floor, damage done, some spikes broken. Seriously AV14 works.

P.S. no shes not psycho per se, I think it was her time of month and happens to be a ginger.........any guys who have had a redhead relation know, DON'T PISS THEM OFF!!!!

Miss Dee wrote:

Tazzy wrote:When I split wiv ma hubby he left a lot of stuff wiv me incl a lot of his beloved mini's, he came to pick a load of them up, which I had flung in a plastic box. when he came to pick them up I dropped the box at his feet with some force you could hear some break.. i saw his eyes well up.... vengance is sweet!!!!!!!!


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

ofc it will Dee, I will paint yas nosey along with every part of me... Issa makes messes

Note to self ............ raid hospital fer hand paper

Ripping up carpet may also be a good idea!!!

My worst model damage done by someone close would have to be my ex gf. She didn't like that i ignored her and gave hobby attention. (mind you we were 1 week into our relationship) i said i would marry her when i finished painting my orks. 265 models.... about 3 a week done..take forever with 1-2 week breaks. She paints all of them pink. [see forum posting rules] WAGHH detected. Wants me to marry her on the spot. -_- i say i didn't paint them. She gets mad and leaves and breaks up with me. I laugh.

The worst thing my wife ever did with my models was use them to table me in a game I quite smugly predicted an easy victory in...

Lol my wife does that too. She keeps refusing to be a gamer but anytime I talk here into playing something she usually wrecks house.

cormadepanda wrote:My worst model damage done by someone close would have to be my ex gf. She didn't like that i ignored her and gave hobby attention. (mind you we were 1 week into our relationship) i said i would marry her when i finished painting my orks. 265 models.... about 3 a week done..take forever with 1-2 week breaks. She paints all of them pink. [see forum posting rules] WAGHH detected. Wants me to marry her on the spot. -_- i say i didn't paint them. She gets mad and leaves and breaks up with me. I laugh.

Promises of marriage one week into a relationship? I trust that you were joking?

The fact that she seemingly wanted marriage also makes me wonder how much sanity was exactly present...

Henners91 wrote:

cormadepanda wrote:My worst model damage done by someone close would have to be my ex gf. She didn't like that i ignored her and gave hobby attention. (mind you we were 1 week into our relationship) i said i would marry her when i finished painting my orks. 265 models.... about 3 a week done..take forever with 1-2 week breaks. She paints all of them pink. [see forum posting rules] WAGHH detected. Wants me to marry her on the spot. -_- i say i didn't paint them. She gets mad and leaves and breaks up with me. I laugh.

Promises of marriage one week into a relationship? I trust that you were joking?

The fact that she seemingly wanted marriage also makes me wonder how much sanity was exactly present...

I get the feeling it was a joke on his part, essentially stating that itll wait a few years....if it happens at all

Wardragoon wrote:

Henners91 wrote:

cormadepanda wrote:My worst model damage done by someone close would have to be my ex gf. She didn't like that i ignored her and gave hobby attention. (mind you we were 1 week into our relationship) i said i would marry her when i finished painting my orks. 265 models.... about 3 a week done..take forever with 1-2 week breaks. She paints all of them pink. [see forum posting rules] WAGHH detected. Wants me to marry her on the spot. -_- i say i didn't paint them. She gets mad and leaves and breaks up with me. I laugh.

Promises of marriage one week into a relationship? I trust that you were joking?

The fact that she seemingly wanted marriage also makes me wonder how much sanity was exactly present...

I get the feeling it was a joke on his part, essentially stating that itll wait a few years....if it happens at all

On a side note i never promise marriage in one week. I have more nuts and bolts then needed to build a stompa.
I was like i wanna screw her, but i don't wanna merry her, so i decided i would tell her something to get in there. Sure when i finish painting something that i be lucky if i finished in it in 4 years. She painted it all.. I go wtf.. my orks have gay pride. She breaks up with me i laugh for a good three hours over my orks. (it was just spray paint) I move on to my current fiancé who love Nid's and paints them and wants to play.

Cool story, bro.

Doofry wrote: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!

I can imagine the leader shouted "Don't give up brothers! We'll fell this foul beast yet!" as they rode the cat into the depths of which they never returned.

And what is wrong about being gay as Im a Lesbian?

Miss Dee wrote:And what is wrong about being gay as Im a Lesbian?

Strong attempt to ignite a flame. Too stronk. Please. Let your jimmies remain unrustled. He meant nothing by it.

Auxellion wrote:

Miss Dee wrote:And what is wrong about being gay as Im a Lesbian?

Strong attempt to ignite a flame. Too stronk. Please. Let your jimmies remain unrustled. He meant nothing by it.

nothing in fact i know many gays and enjoy them. There is nothing wrong with gay pride, i just wanted my orks not hot pink. Your jimmies remain unresulted.

R we slagging off gays now?? hmmmmmm this Lesbian will have something to say about that.... My space elves are gonna b pink as its my fave colour and there is no rule that sez paint em this colour......

cormadepanda wrote:My worst model damage done by someone close would have to be my ex gf. She didn't like that i ignored her and gave hobby attention. (mind you we were 1 week into our relationship) i said i would marry her when i finished painting my orks. 265 models.... about 3 a week done..take forever with 1-2 week breaks. She paints all of them pink. [see forum posting rules] WAGHH detected. Wants me to marry her on the spot. -_- i say i didn't paint them. She gets mad and leaves and breaks up with me. I laugh.

Sounds like you dodged a bullet there. Be grateful only harm that was done was a bunch of pink orks.

[qoute]Sounds like you dodged a bullet there. Be grateful only harm that was done was a bunch of pink orks.

Worst model damage done in our place: After a long and very careful move into a new apartment, I was taking out my g/f's Eldar Army from a case in a box and inspecting for any damage that might have been done. In this process I was taking them out and putting them into squads on the 3rd shelf of a book shelf. I took a small step back to look at them all when they were up there (a "medium" sized Eldar army complete with very well done Avatar and two stunning wave serps) when our cat thought it be good time to attempt a super leap accross the room from a desk...and onto this shelf, I watched in horror as this army that she had spent so much time on painting came crashing down all once onto a brand new tile floor....I'm still helping with the rebuidling effort, some of these Avengers broke in ways I didn't know they could break! O, and there was also the time my drunk roomate was angry I had tabled his Orks with my new IG army the night prior and took pot shots at them with an Air Soft gun when I wasn't home.

2nd Edition. I was using a weapons and Warriors, working, catapult and those pointy headed 2E Box set Grots. Idiot player grabs catapult, loads gretchin into it and points it at another player.

Before I can finish the sentence "MIke, you're going to going to shoot in the eye", he shoots the gretchin directly into the other player eye, a good 5 feet away I might add.

I feel sorry for you all. I try not to be in any type of cahoots with any crazy folk.

As the girlfiend, the worst thing I can say I've done to him is that many years ago, after I had just witnessed this strange game played between him and his father involving these small plastic and metal guys (some spacey lookin guys with long square guns and macha suits vs some ww1/ww2 looking guys) and he was surfing this website of the company that makes these guys. I got curious and was watching over his shoulder. I saw something that made me really excited, a really cute dinosaur dragon like alien creature, and pointed at the screen and said "I'll play only if I can play these guys."

My nids are now the largest force we own. Oh and I guess you could count some minor jedi-mind-trickery that ended up with him giving me his old grey knights for my up coming draigowing.


As for my own horror stories? They're mostly cat related. Once my aforementioned boyfriend asked me to paint up some of his flames of war infantry while he was at work. So I decided to do my painting on the kitchen table, because it was right next to the window and it was sunny. I had about 6 or so bases done with guys painted and glued and I had been mixing my paint on a paper plate. Our big white cat comes over and decides my work area is a comfy spot to lay down. Right on top of those bases AND the mixed paint. The bases and dudes were fine, but I spent the next half hour or so chasing him around the house with a wet paper towel to get the green pain off his butt.

We also have a young longcat-in-training. He's recently discovered that he can reach the things on my work "table" (not the kitchen table, but my painting board on top of a stool in our room) and so while I'm painting whatever it is I'm painting at the time, he'll grab whatever he can get his paws on that's at the edge of the board and toss it on the carpet. Pots, models, brushes, tools whatever. He's broken one of my aforementioned boyfriend's death company that I had been working on and snapped him in half. He's also grabbed one of my metal grey knight termies that was primed and ready, and nearly broke an arm off at the shoulder from the drop. Now there's a huge crack in the primer, but luckily the arm didn't detach. He only does this when I'm actively doing something like painting. He trys to be so so helpful. He's the reason I use bottles of water as paint water, and make sure that everything spillable that I'm not directly using is capped off and closed tight.

My last story is my own stupidity involving me dropping my nearly finished model that I've been working on for days right into my bowl of mixed paint. On three. Seperate. Occasions. Three different models. Luckily, a quick rinse and an overnight dry and they were good and could resume painting the following night.

I sat on a former friends fighter Corsair or was it a Wildcat cant remember

So worst thing that has ever happened to me is up for grabs, a few years back I took a break from the hobby because of school, and my brothers decided to throw out the cases (old gun cases my dad gave me) with about 10000 points of burgle space marines that I got for the most part off ebay with my CPU cough hard earned allowance . The July other event I would rank up there would be when I was returning from a local RTT with my best friend with the first time I put my fully painted BA army on the table that I had slaved for two months over to get painted for this event. Well returning home victorious I went to the bed of his truck to retrieve the models, and he thought I had completed this deed and started to drive off, and into the street and the bed of his truck my case ripped open, contents spilling out, in a panic he slammed on the breaks and reversed to see what happened all over my poor army. Now that I think about it andy go back to that night, I'm pretty sure so far in my short life that was one of the worst ads and feelings I have ever experienced

SGnewton wrote:So worst thing that has ever happened to me is up for grabs, a few years back I took a break from the hobby because of school, and my brothers decided to throw out the cases (old gun cases my dad gave me) with about 10000 points of burgle space marines that I got for the most part off ebay with my CPU cough hard earned allowance . The July other event I would rank up there would be when I was returning from a local RTT with my best friend with the first time I put my fully painted BA army on the table that I had slaved for two months over to get painted for this event. Well returning home victorious I went to the bed of his truck to retrieve the models, and he thought I had completed this deed and started to drive off, and into the street and the bed of his truck my case ripped open, contents spilling out, in a panic he slammed on the breaks and reversed to see what happened all over my poor army. Now that I think about it andy go back to that night, I'm pretty sure so far in my short life that was one of the worst ads and feelings I have ever experienced

Buh, wha?.....Dear God, I feel sorry for you and your minis