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sillypoint16 Dec 2011 2:26 p.m. PST

Ever get the uncomfortable feeling you have thrown figures(s) out?
Like that little Jacobite soldier that came with the Black Powder supplement, out with the plastic wrap I think.

DColtman16 Dec 2011 2:40 p.m. PST

Yep, some 10mm Stug IIIs.

I also once threw a WAB supplement out- mixed up with a pile of paper for the recycle bin.

DOH!

Space Monkey16 Dec 2011 2:45 p.m. PST

I sucked up a loose wizard with a vaccum hose at the car wash.

Mako1116 Dec 2011 2:48 p.m. PST

I haven't, but suspect my parents may have, since many of my childhood plastic minis and toys are MIA……

Little Big Wars16 Dec 2011 3:20 p.m. PST

I lost a Jakara Spyrer Hunter to the garbage disposal (I had been stripping it, and it got knocked in there without my knowledge).

coryfromMissoula16 Dec 2011 3:32 p.m. PST

I suspect I have.

sillypoint16 Dec 2011 3:57 p.m. PST

A friend lost his unpainted western gunfighters, thought he might have thrown them out, then suspected his nephew for a time. Years later, found them with his pirates. Catalogued with the "packed neatly" miniatures, go figure.

Personal logo Wolfshanza Supporting Member of TMP16 Dec 2011 4:36 p.m. PST

Yeah, last year I got some Mars Attacks figures and some greys from ebay. Put them back in the envelope, on my desk, and cleaned the desk off next day ! AARrgghhh !

ming3116 Dec 2011 5:18 p.m. PST

Did a custom Squat engineer had it on the bench ready to clear …been over ten years And I still haven't found it

John the OFM16 Dec 2011 6:20 p.m. PST

I hope not.

SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER16 Dec 2011 9:51 p.m. PST

Who knows?????????????????????????????????

Delthos16 Dec 2011 10:09 p.m. PST

No, but I'm sure I've thrown out some magazine by accident. For what ever reason I left them in the paper bags the store put comics and magazines in. I'm absolutely sure I've thrown the magazines out with the bags on a couple occasions. I distinctly remember reading some of the issues of Necromunda magazine that went missing, due to the Ash Wastes vehicle rules in them. They were no where to be found in my collection. Now they are as I got a huge stack of about 60 diferent Fanatic Press magazines for $10 at my local store.

I've thought I'd thrown out miniatures from time to time, but I eventually found the missing figs. I've even bought replacement figs for some of them I thought I lost, only to find the missing fig shortly after buying the replacemnt.

GarrisonMiniatures17 Dec 2011 4:32 a.m. PST

Easiest way to find a lost figure has always been to buy a replacement. Some kind of sympathetic magic I suppose.

Volstagg Vanir17 Dec 2011 7:37 a.m. PST

The King of This, am I.
Hired my nephews to empty my Garage
during my 'Rather Unpleasant Moving Adventure #7' (c)
this past October.

I do believe an Armorcast Gargant was mistakenly
sent to the Dump,
as it was packed in a generic Cardboard box.
(sound of head banging into wall)

Dropzonetoe Fezian17 Dec 2011 10:43 a.m. PST

I've vacuumed up bits before. Cannot recall a whole miniature. I have lost one down a air vent though.

Frederick Supporting Member of TMP17 Dec 2011 5:12 p.m. PST

When cleaning up the workbench, I set aside a 24-fig Front Rank SYW Hungarian infantry unit and 2 12-fig Austrian cavalry regiments (thankfully unpainted) – I put them beside some things the Missus was taking to Goodwill, so by mistake they were donated to a willing charity

Grand Duke Natokina17 Dec 2011 7:02 p.m. PST

Not thrown out, but left on top of the truck as I drove away. A "unit" of freshly built and painted Strykers and a "bunch" of painted modern Soviet and US infantry [about 30].

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