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The Cat and the Wolves
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Author:  Mark_Logue [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:57 am ]
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Frigging grrr grumblle arrrrrggghghgghg......

Wife opened hobby room door.  Cat entered games room.  Cat seemed to like being bigger than wolves.  Cat mercilessly murdered my frigging Epic Space wolves.

Cat still lives, wife still lives.  This is good evidence of improvement of levels in self control over the last few years.

At least she didn't smash CAL001's eldar.  It would have definitely copped a boot up the but if I was stuck replacing a bunch of forgeworld tanks and painting them again.

Here is the horid mutant doombot cat responsible for the atrocity.



and here is the poor state that my beloved space wolves have found themselves in.



Photoshopping out cat into a daemonic beast shooting fireballs out of its eyes was a strangely soothing experience.  I am sure reasembling and painting my space wolf army will not be.
Author:  blackhorizon [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:00 pm ]
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Ouch,

remembers:
our cat, actually my wifes as she already had the cat before we got a relationship, walked over some boxes containing warhammer stuff after we just moved into our new house (2003).

Result:
chaos dragon in pieces,
archaon seperated,
40k chaos marines missing limbs
etc

My Battlefleet Gothic fleet survived.

Cat went missing september 2006 :(

Succes with rebuilding the Wolves.
Author:  Justiniel [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:13 pm ]
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Ouch indeed
Loving cats as I do I'm glad that she copped no harm but that certainly derserves a quick slap between the ears.
Good luck in reassembly.
Author:  CAL001 [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:17 pm ]
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Not good on the Wolves mate. I hope you can rebuild them quickly. Maybe bannish the cat to outside for a while.

Cheers
Aaron
Author:  Mark_Logue [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:38 pm ]
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Ok it gets worse.  This of course all happened while I was at work.  My wife decided that telling me my beloved space wolves army seen here:



had been smashed was about the most she could manage at one time.  So she declined to mention that my Entire Imperial Guard also went for a meter drop from the games shelve to the wooden floor.



since the extent of the damage isn't bad in her opinion she thought she would let me calm down after the first lot of bad news and break it to me later.  I have to admit it probably worked.  I surprise myself that I am not really to angry.

I think I have just gotten so used to stuff getting broken all the time from having two young children.
Author:  blackhorizon [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:50 pm ]
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...oh wow.

Congrats on the restrainement.
Author:  The_Real_Chris [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:58 pm ]
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The question is...
were they varnished?
Author:  Justiniel [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:06 pm ]
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(The_Real_Chris @ Jun. 18 2008,12:58)
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The question is...
were they varnished?

Now that sounds like the voice of a man with 1m drop experience.. :D
Author:  CAL001 [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:07 pm ]
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Mate that a tragedy, my comisserations.

Aaron
Author:  Mark_Logue [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:16 pm ]
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Yep.  All my Epic armies are heavily coated in Testors Dull Coate  I already have repainted the space wolves once when the army was much smaller and my wife dropped the whole box before varnishing.

They are generally in surprisingly good condition.  There are quite a few paint chips in general and patches where the bases look a bit dodgy as the rocks have shaken off throughout most units but in generally its pretty good considering.  This is not the worst army drop I have suffered.  I actually dropped my entire Epic Nid army when the door swung shut leaving me holding the entire army on a tray in the dark on my driveway coming home from a gaming session.  That entire army had to be rebuild and repainted.  I have some very large rocks on the bases of the infantry which are actually holding the minis up as they snapped off bases.  They actually look really good though and you could never tell now.

My wife told me she felt like being sick from stress before I got home and ended up with a massive head ache.  She showed one of her friends when they dropped around and they just backed off and decided to go home and not be around when Kim Lee broke the news.  She must have been in a pleasant surprise.  That would have been my best response for mini breakage ever so far.
Author:  The_Real_Chris [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:24 pm ]
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(Justiniel @ Jun. 18 2008,13:06)
QUOTE

(The_Real_Chris @ Jun. 18 2008,12:58)
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The question is...
were they varnished?

Now that sounds like the voice of a man with 1m drop experience.. :D

Try a 2 meter shelf collapse! (Onto my uncle who was visiting at the time and rudely awoken - I must confess to having shown no concern for him when the news was telephoned to Bangladesh - perhaps the worse thing was my brother as the closest thing to a gamer in my family (he likes apple macs) was brought in to 'tidy them up'. As L4 will attest with my continuing failure to find anything he asked for he didn't have a clue what he was doing and I still can't find some stuff!)

Funnily enough the same thing happened 18 years ago when they were unpainted!
Author:  nealhunt [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:25 pm ]
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Yikes.

But on the plus side "The Cat and the Wolves" sounds like a good name for a Thousand Sons/Space Wolves scenario...
Author:  blackhorizon [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:30 pm ]
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(Mark_Logue @ Jun. 18 2008,14:16)
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My wife told me she felt like being sick from stress before I got home and ended up with a massive head ache. ?She showed one of her friends when they dropped around and they just backed off and decided to go home and not be around when Kim Lee broke the news. ?She must have been in a pleasant surprise. ?That would have been my best response for mini breakage ever so far.

Cool, now you scored massive '+' points in your marriage.  :cool:

And indeed, a cool scenario title it is.
Author:  Otterman [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:21 pm ]
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(Mark_Logue @ Jun. 18 2008,07:16)
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She showed one of her friends when they dropped around and they just backed off and decided to go home and not be around when Kim Lee broke the news.

Are you another member of the "white guys with Asian women" club? Oooh! We should start a dedicated topic.

I recommend: heavy drinking.
Author:  Lord Inquisitor [ Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:35 pm ]
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(Mark_Logue @ Jun. 18 2008,06:57)
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Cat still lives, wife still lives. ?This is good evidence of improvement of levels in self control over the last few years.

Indeed!

One of our kittens recently knocked over (independantly) my workstation with all of my chaos termiantors I'd been working on for weeks, and, more recently, my entire Inquisitorial army. The second one wasn't too bad (although those *#%$!^* Grey Knights break as soon as you look at them), but that workstation was put away about 5 foot off the ground and really made a mess. I was utterly furious.

I've had a child eat the sculpted head of a model once. Wasn't happy about that either.

Ooh, and I once had a hampster stuck in a land raider and had to cut it out. That one did make a good anecdote.
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