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Worst thing that happened to me was trading a large number of significantly more valuable models that I didn't want for a small number of much less valuable models that I did want... sent my models off fine... never received anything in return and the sender claimed not to have got my stuff either.

Had to chalk that one up to experience. Now all my trade stuff is sent recorded unless it is only a few bits.

Some guy at a wargaming club knocked my Blight Drone onto the floor off the table - repairable, but it did loose it's piping, which ain't gonna be easy to replace. it was in many different pieces!

Some of the stories in this thread have brought a genuine tear into my eye. Poor little plastic guys.

Goddard wrote:

Finding out that matt ward is doing the next cron dex.

Get over yourself dude. Not only is that not funny, the jokes been made already, and he's not a bad writer.

Well, two out of three's not bad.

I have managed to avoid any real catastrophes with my models, so far. The "worst" things to happen are either A.) I accidentally oversprayed a little rattle can white primer onto a bit of my Zuzzy man, leaving a little white line about 2 inches by half an inch, or B.) I dropped the little baby claws on my Necron Tomb Stalker, and one broke and flew off into the warp. I wound up just removing the other as well and calling it a day. They were hideously miscast (but you already knew it was Forge World, ka-thump!) so I didn't feel too bad about it.

I keep my Deathwing army in homemade segmented cardboard carry containers to save on cost (since I only play at a FLGS 15 minutes from my house). Recently, the container carrying all of the terminators, all of the Ravenwing support, and half of my tactical squads broke on one side, release a flood of terminators onto the floor. A bunch of the old metal assault terminators that I got on Ebay lost weapons/bases. Not a disaster on the level of some of the others here, but I have about a squad and a half of my Assault Terminators out of commission.

Nothing's happened to my measly little collection yet, but I've got a housemove coming up.

Commis to those who have lost their's.

5 days before a Tourny I left the bedroom door unlocked. My 4 year old boy got in their a splattered cobalt blue paint all over an almost completed 2000 point Marine Army.
Spent 4 days on minimal sleep, maximum coffee (hate the stuff), getting everything cleaned up and repainted. And my playing showed the lack of sleep going 1-4.

But its hard to be mad at the little guy who tries so hard to be like daddy and only wants to help dad out.
(I have about 3500 points of Orks painted and ready for him when he turns 7 or 8).

I'd have to say the worst thing to ever happen to my minis was the total loss of 3 complete armies in Hurricane Katrina (along with most everything else).

WOW hurricane is really is the worst thing to happen yet.

Back when I first started with GW minis, one of my little brothers had his friends over and my other brother and I had our LOTR figures set up. A little while later we find out that the friend had smashed a few Riders of Rohan. We asked him why the hell he did that and he said "I didn't realize they were yours!"

Really...?

FITZZ wrote: I'd have to say the worst thing to ever happen to my minis was the total loss of 3 complete armies in Hurricane Katrina (along with most everything else).

Oh man, sorry to hear it Hope everything worked out fine

mega_bassist wrote:

FITZZ wrote: I'd have to say the worst thing to ever happen to my minis was the total loss of 3 complete armies in Hurricane Katrina (along with most everything else).

Oh man, sorry to hear it Hope everything worked out fine

Oh yeah,We made it through everything and I've even managed to rebuild two of the armies that were lost.

About a week ago, I tried to move a cheap bookshelf I have (one of those cheap plywood and veneer ones that only is being held together by it's own weight), causing the two shelves in it with various WIP IG and some old pewter DH stuff to drop out onto the bottom shelf... where all my tyranids are. :(

I just sat there, staring at it for about 5 minutes. I then quietly asked my roommate if he'd seen my circular saw. I later found it and proceeded to cut myself some lengths of 2x4 to put under the shelves as permenent supports. They're installed with 3" long wood screws. It's not pretty, but I'd imagine that sucker would now survive being thrown out a window.

My roommate later told me that he thought I was going to lose it.

A 5 year old with a paintbrush and paints...

All my Bret Knights (20 or so KoTR, a couple of Errant) were in an open-topped box on my desk so i could spray them, went outside to clear a space in the garage, came back and the box containing my Furioso Dread had fallen off the shelf straight on top of them all....so many broken lances

My cat & dog form a great team! Cat jumps onto the table and playfully knocks a few models off, then the dog hoovers them up! Fortunately, i've managed to stop them before, althoug once I had to save a whole Scout Marine squad from the jaws of death. The cat also likes to chew all of the lights on top of my buildings, like you do...

Thankfully the dog would rather eat DVDs than models.

I don't mind people looking at my models, but once my little cousin carefuly picked one up, looked at it when i told him to be careful, then slammed it down again. :p Didn't break or anything.

And some of these stories have made me cringe, I feel your pain guys :(

this thread made me think: some insurance company should have model insurnace

I was Carrying a few boxes of guys out to my car, some friends and i were going to have a mini tourny for the fun of it, and i dropped my Tyranid box in the driveway.

My tyrant, carnifex , trygon and almost all my warriors broke apart.

Cat pulled an ork gunner from the trakk off the table and buried it in her litter box. It was painted.

God I hate critics.

My worst moment was dropping my cell phone into a box of space marines/space hulk terminators last week. Arms are everywhere, pins busted, torsos went flying...but all fixable

One game (hilarious as well as bad) my friend had a stone thrower hit his unit of dark elf warriors. Another guy went to use the tape measurer (heavy metal) and dropped it on the unit of warriors. They REALLY got hit with a stone thrower. The only damaged model was the guy under the hole we were picking that guy up for days (sad part was it was a cool conversion model using dark elves and empire bitz).

Brother build his own warboss from metal bits and loads of green stuff. Painted it and everything, he loved it.

A few days later he spills some coke on it. No biggie; a quick wash and it will be good as new. Gets a cup of water and gives it a quick dunk. As soon as it hit the water the super glue that was holding everything together fail and the whole model call to pieces. Everything single thing became unstuck. He never put it back together after that.

Probably the worst thing that has hyappened to me was flying bases and the annoying little stalks. My battlesuit one broke when a friend dropeed it. fixed it, broke, fixed it again, in the end I just remodelled him.

The second thing I did myself. I wanted an effective way of puting in and taking out my flying base for my devilfish. So i cut the top off and glued a small sewing thing which can screw into another, used for jewelry, of course the glue never worked and that was that ruined. In the end I had to drill out a hole and stick in a another flying stalk. Ever since my devilfish leanss slightly.

Neither of these even rates compared to some of these stories. Might help that I only have about 750 points.

Yeah I'm going to have to go with early paint jobs as the main wrecker of my armies too.

"You want me to prime my models and then thin my paints? Why on earth would I do that?"

Fortunately after a while i realised "Oh God that's why."

Also I've lost count of the amount of Bretonian lances that have snapped or weakened over the years.

Hammerziet wrote:Yeah I'm going to have to go with early paint jobs as the main wrecker of my armies too.

"You want me to prime my models and then thin my paints? Why on earth would I do that?"

Whil i agree that bad painting skills do ruin an army I have to disagree with the thinned paint bit. Usually wiping it off the rim is enough for me to get a decent look(but my armies arnt gonna be GD winners lol)


back on topic though, worst thing?? Hmm lets see, probly my Dreadnought(Ironclad converted for CSM) picking a fight with my Daemon Prince during the match.

On the way home they decided to go at it again.... Dreadnought lost, his legs had came apart and some still stuck to the foot. Safe to say that i need to not leave them in unpadded boxs.

I didnt know leaving them in your car in the sun would hurt them. I had a meched out tau army sitting in an open topped box in my back set last summer on a very sunny hot day. Everything was warped and twisted to the point of it not being usable. Totally my fault

Chosen Praetorian wrote:I didnt know leaving them in your car in the sun would hurt them. I had a meched out tau army sitting in an open topped box in my back set last summer on a very sunny hot day. Everything was warped and twisted to the point of it not being usable. Totally my fault

That's got to suck...
I imagine this sort of thing will happen with the new finecast minis a lot as well.

Well, this isn't quite as bad as some of the other ones here, but one time while I was setting up for a game I set my large Citadel case on a stool, because there was no more room left on the table we set aside for our cases, intending to move it once I had finished. Then, when I was halfway done setting up, one of my friends bumped into my case, spilling 85% of the models left in it. I still played, even though most of the models were broken, then spent a couple hours afterwards re-gluing them. The worst part, however, is that this same thing happened again a couple weeks later. I never learn

I once played a game on a weird A-frame type table. It was kinda unstable, but only if you put a gak ton of weight in one place. We were told to NOT lean on the table.

About an hour into the game, I forget and lean on the table, catapulting some poor guys orks across the room where they explode against the wall.

£300 later, I had made my apology.

S_P

Being the only army of minis the local high-pitched TFG cheers for.

My 24 year step brother spray painting 100+ orks that I just finshed painting. My step family thought it wasn't a big deal cause they were just toys to them. That was the last straw out of all the crap they pull on me. So I left.