My Black Templars army is one I have always respected, as it was my first army. They're cool 3+ CC vow, the neat Emperor's Champion, and who could forget - the Land Raider Crusader. I beat the crap out of a lot of Tyranids with that army.

However, as I have been phasing out that army, I have lent it to my friend for his GW excursions after work. He went for most of this semester, every couple of days a week.

Now, these are your average GW-frequentees. This is the store where all the employees are really pushy and retarded. This isn't the point of the story, but I'm setting the mood for you. The place is pretty small, but they fit a big crowd in there. Every week, they'll get a big crowd of mostly people between 14 and 16 looking for a hardcore game of 40k. They usually get the same group of 12-year-olds, which gives them some variety. It's a good place, but sometimes they get a bit too geeky for my tastes. That's why he goes. With my army.

I keep my army in a white, unmarked box, which was originally designed to package something. It has no padding, and it comprised of 0.5mm-thick cardboard. The box is pretty much designed to break things in. I keep my army in it. Or at least whatever will fit in it.

My friend brings this box in the first day. They already know him, because he goes there a lot anyway, just to watch the games and use house armies. He puts the box down on the table, grinning.

"Where's your army?" says someone overlooking the games.

My friend opens up the box and carefully takes them out, because he doesn't want to break them. Once he's finished, they realize how he carries the army around.

"You do that to your army???"

"Oh it's not mine."

The crowd is horrified. When he told me about this I laughed my ass off. I told him he could keep doing it, I really could care less. The whole thing was an adventure, and every time he'd come back and tell me how retarded he looked, sweeping the whole army off the table back into the box in one fell swoop as others carefully placed theirs in their 198-dollar carrying cases. He'd toss the box in the air and catch it after a few flips, watching the faces go up and down, observing the flying box of precious templars. He said it was like juggling the vases in a china shop. They'd laugh at him, call him an idiot, go nuts on him. They'd make fun of him.

He came back every time and told me. It was funny as all hell. He kept going back, and once he was finished, they got so used to it that someone actually started doing it as well.

The next day, a guy came in with his Tau crammed in an unmarked shoebox.

To this day, I have not heard of anything from GW. My friend stopped going since his CO-OP ended this semester. But I'm sure somewhere in the Eaton's Centre GW, there's still a bunch of guys sitting around the table playing 40k... unmarked cardboard boxes scattered across the floor.

:D

You know, that's great. My Space Wolves are crammed into the top of a toolbox (not much better, no dividers), and my Tau are in a medical kit. But a few of my friends DO have 'the box'. It doesn just as well as those other ones, as long as you glue your mini's right and don't have any REALY fragile coversions (Like a few of mine... ^^; ).

Lol, i see a lot of little kids doing that in Aus as well. I used to have them in a rhino box blutaced to the bottom so they didn't roll around.

But didnt they all break as your friend threw them around? I mean i wouldn't have apid $75 Aus for a case but i had to because i have to worry about my dog and cat using them to sharpen their teeth (it happened to my unfortunate marshall) as well as havin g to travel long distances to get to a GW.
I also find it quite a lot easier as you dont have to worry about your models breaking.

I must say if someone did that to my models regardless of which army, i would be horrified.

Not particularly. Like Griss said, good gluing should keep any sturdy model together. I do it with even my most delicate conversions. Pin the metal ones, and there's no problem. Granted, they do break on occasion, but not often enough for me to care.

You throw my models in the air, I smasha yo face!

Many, many hours of work in them.

Plus most of my models are metal, and metal on metal does chip.

One word: "Meh..."

;)

Hahahaha, fantastic story Sarge!!

I do that with my vehicles. (Not the throwing part) I have a cardbord box slightly larger than a shoebox that is filled with packing peanuts. I put the vehicles in however I want and spread the peanuts over them. No breakage, no worries, and no money spent. :D

Heh, I cram my guardsmen in old icecream boxes.

My old office bought a batch of keyboards from Sun Microsystems. They came in these cool corrugated card boxes, with a lift out tray for all the manuals and cabling that is exactly the right height to stand a space marine in, plus a lower section deep enough to put a Rhino in.


I took six of them home. (After the sysadmins took the keyboards out of course!)

Haha 3 years ago when i was 11 with just over 500pts of white scars i bought a blood claws pack to act as a combat squad.
Proud of my first pose of the sergeant i took him to school to brag off, which ended up in a battle between a kroot mercenary, a catachan captain, a necron destroyer and a friends space marine as we had all recently purchased new models.
Using rocks from outside we set up a little scene on the concrete outside.
I stood up to pick up the dice and wasnt watching where my model was and crunch
Amazingly he only broke off his base. Shows how well these boys are made.

There's a store near my house that has occasional painting contests (not a GW). My friend lives a couple kilometres away, so he drives into town with his painted model wrapped in a quilted paper towel bundled up inside a tupperware container.

I bring my entries in my hands... freezing my hands off, granted, but in my hands nonetheless. :)

:lmao: Thats a great anacdote sarge. I used to do that with my tau, i kept them in a shoe box, up to the time when the manager of my local games worksuop stepped on it and snapped the engines off my hammerhead adn all my battlsuits <_< :( :angry:

You should have gotten free merch from that place man.

Ask any of my playing buddies, I may have the case, but only because my parents (they don't seem to get it) bought me one. dunno if griss was around for this, but there was one time I was having a bad day and went berserk on a squad of CSMs, started chucking em everywhere.

iv got one case that i use to take my models to games with when i moved house a bit ago i had most of them rapped up in buble rap in boxs .it makes you lauth though that the realy crape models that are just pants never brake or chip or anything yet the ones that are your pride an joy brake like dried weasel shit

I've stickied this because it's just so funny. I read that first post and crack up every time. Thanks again Sarge for that prose.

I really see those faces in front of me, o......CLASSIC!!!

lol! I think I have to agree with Red Dragon here!

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I agree, i own not one but three of the boxes....

I was clever, i was being told off for having models all over the place in my room. So I told my mom to buy me cases. And she did. Mwhahaha

It would be so easy to respond to that Thorin... but I won't. ;)

I carry my stuff in GW carry case. Horriby expensive and a complete rip off they are, but I invest too much time and money into the hobby for these models to be transported carelessly. Mind you, I've recently scouted out a much cheaper and just as effective means of transporting models. If it works out, I'll let you guys know :)

What is this cheap method? Catapult? Trebuchet, perhaps? Or maybe railgun? :D

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Shit...that made me laugh!

...ohhh its early gimmie a break! :D

SUDDENLY, THREE YEARS LATER:

My god, I just read this again. I honestly don't remember this thread at all, but reading it made me laugh my ass off.

I'm so glad this is still here. Kudos.