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EldarN00b wrote:

ghoulio wrote:About 7 years ago I was working for a Games Workshop store and my manager at the time basically dared me to make a Dark Eldar army since the models were so hideous and I had spent a fair amount of time making fun of them. He even said I could have the models for free if I painted them up.

You are lying right there. It is against GW store policy for any free models to be given out (unless for intros), not even to staff. If that was the case, then that manager was likely to lose his job.

You seriously felt the need to comment on a light hearted story of why I started Dark Eldar? To respond to your comment we had a couple of extra boxes of the 3rd edition starter sets lying around that was never going to be used so he gave me the spares and no, he didn't come close to losing his job. In fact he became regional manager last time I heard. I received tonnes of free stuff from GW when I worked there (in Canada) so I have no idea what you are talking about. Why you felt the need to respond in a modeling and painting post about GW company policy is beyond me especially when you are calling me out as a lair in a situation where you don't know the circumstances.

EldarN00b wrote:

ghoulio wrote:About 7 years ago I was working for a Games Workshop store and my manager at the time basically dared me to make a Dark Eldar army since the models were so hideous and I had spent a fair amount of time making fun of them. He even said I could have the models for free if I painted them up.

You are lying right there. It is against GW store policy for any free models to be given out (unless for intros), not even to staff. If that was the case, then that manager was likely to lose his job.

I assumed that the Manager bought them from his own store and gave them to him.

Really nice looking work - I absolutely love your Lelith!

ghoulio wrote:

EldarN00b wrote:

ghoulio wrote:About 7 years ago I was working for a Games Workshop store and my manager at the time basically dared me to make a Dark Eldar army since the models were so hideous and I had spent a fair amount of time making fun of them. He even said I could have the models for free if I painted them up.

You are lying right there. It is against GW store policy for any free models to be given out (unless for intros), not even to staff. If that was the case, then that manager was likely to lose his job.

You seriously felt the need to comment on a light hearted story of why I started Dark Eldar? To respond to your comment we had a couple of extra boxes of the 3rd edition starter sets lying around that was never going to be used so he gave me the spares and no, he didn't come close to losing his job. In fact he became regional manager last time I heard. I received tonnes of free stuff from GW when I worked there (in Canada) so I have no idea what you are talking about. Why you felt the need to respond in a modeling and painting post about GW company policy is beyond me especially when you are calling me out as a lair in a situation where you don't know the circumstances.

Who Owen or Darren?

I believe you though. Because i know GW needs painted display armies. And "free army" he meant basically is:
You paint it out of your own time, you cant take it home, ti needs to stay in the store display shelf. But you can play with it in shop when you are off work.

Basically he wants you to paint it for free lol that guy is so cheap...

LunaHound wrote:Who Owen or Darren?

I believe you though. Because i know GW needs painted display armies. And "free army" he meant basically is:
You paint it out of your own time, you cant take it home, ti needs to stay in the store display shelf. But you can play with it in shop when you are off work.

Basically he wants you to paint it for free lol that guy is so cheap...

Wow haha, always surprising to see people from your area commenting on stuff . As far as your question to who it was it was actually neither of them since I worked for GW in between years at school back in Ontario (so 2004-2005ish).

It was more or less along those lines though. I had just finished painting up the demo figs for the store, made the mistake of commenting on how they "weren't that bad to paint" so he said I could have the rest of the stuff since I liked them so much (goading me into playing them basically). My army was mostly warriors with 1 raider and a ravager with a mighty TALOS! Good times lol. I actually took that army to the 2005 Grand Tourney at the Oakville battle bunker too. I had two massacres and two massacres against lol (just alternated through the day). Was an awesome time.