"morbid thought..." Topic

recently began thinking of what will happen to my loved ones should I unexpectedly perish….of course,by loved ones I mean my miniatures…
Has anyone else had this troubling thought?
too many to accompany me in the coffin
would you give them away…make the wife sell them on ebay…will them to someone…
what will become of these poor lead heroes?
I cant imagine the work involved in a non wargamer trying to sort through a lifetime of painted and unpainted projects
to sell
anyone else have similar boredom inspired morbid thoughts?

It taxes my mind occasionally. It might take a year or two to sell my stuff; and without specialist knowledge the seller wouldn't get much of a return… worrying.

Simon

I'd like to think my cronies would help sort them out for the kids to use as they get older.

The reality is that she'd probably get the cronies to sell them, recalim the garage and spend the money on shoes :)

Steve P

I have a friend, a little younger and healthier than me :) – who trades in this sort of thing. I've asked him to act as an unofficial helper for disposing of anything my son doesnt want.

I've told my wife friends to contact.

Just say you spend £50.00 GBP a month on your wargame hobby, most of that you see as permanent residual property i.e. figures / terrain and rules books.

but there are lots of people spending £50.00 GBP on their hobby that is dead money as soon as it is spent, i.e. a football game, golf club fees, a visit to wildlife centres etc.

the truth is you can only spend your money once – the point is that wargame money spent gives you a lifetime of return – so once you die, the wargame stuff has actually given you it's full value – whatever it can be sold off for afterwards is a bonus.

Just get max use and pleasure of it while you are alive.

Who cares, you're dead.

I have a kid and a cousin that both wargame – I suspect my stuff will be used long after my death. I told my wife to keep my WWI aviation and Napoleonic libraries together if at all possible -- I don't care who gets them as long as they stay together.

mjc

Bury it with me -- I want to entertain the archaeologists who unearth my tomb. Hope they can make sense of DBA, and don't use the text to translate our entire language.

I will be buried in a tomb made of the vast quantity of metal I have.

The aura from the thick walls full of boxes, crates, totes, and drawers of my figures will allow me to rise in an undead state as a gaming lich where I will start collecting all over again.

According to advice given often on this site, no one dies, if they have enough unpainted lead sitting about. A reassuring thought

I'll just donate my body to a scientific project where they'll attempt to replicate the burial practices of the pharaohs. I'm pretty sure that it'll get funding when I state that I can provide my own grave goods.

On a less-grandiose scale, I'm doing an inventory (slowly) of my hobby stuff. My kids don't wargame, but my future grandkids might – in which case problem solved. I know that "Talisman" will be kept (worth a couple of grand), the comics will be sold for some portion of their value (estimated at $10K-20K) but the miniatures will need instructions. I'll have to put that in the Excell file.

Wyatt

hopefully you will live long enough to at least see excel cese out of use.. (about 10 years or so?)

Viking funeral. Wife is going to pile all of my gaming books, rules sets and minis around me, douse it with a suitable accerlant and make sure she is up wind to avoid the resulting toxic fumes from the pile of melting plastic, lead and pewter…….

Wife is going to pile all of my gaming books, rules sets and minis around me, douse it with a suitable accerlant and make sure she is up wind to avoid the resulting toxic fumes from the pile of melting plastic, lead and pewter

Mine sometimes says this is an option, and not in a post-death way…

Im with LibraryNinja on this one…Im taking all of mine with me.

We had a friend just pass here, and no heirs to pass his stuff onto. Most of it was sold at Millennium Con to raise money for an hospice.
While I like the idea of taking it with me, my great nephews will probably get my minis, or my niece's husband may melt them for black powder ammo, as I've gotten him into black powder.

"Mine sometimes says this is an option, and not in a post-death way…"

Yeah, I have heard that too – usually right after I get a visit from our friendly UPS driver….8^|

They shall all be burned with me in a final victory pyre.

I think my wife would invite my gaming pals over and le them cart it all off…

My friends will probably take stuff off me while I'm dying

LOL, Streetline!

Simon

I want my still warm body piled into a trebuchet with my entire lead collection and fired at whatever waster heads our government of the day, what a headline that would make. I might make it onto you-tube or equivalent, taking out a politico from beyond my (air-borne)grave.

I think my wife plans to pile it all on the curb. Great pity.

where is it that you live Lost Wolf? =)

Been reading about the 1204 sack of Constantinople of late: really depressing. You talk about what might happen to a few pounds of painted lead and plastic. The incomplete catalogue of what was lost in that sack should make any sane person weep. Just the melted down statuary alone was an enormous crime….

How about that chinese bloke who's models were made of clay. They played in a much bigger scale back then……