"Who gets your figures when you go to a better place?" Topic

You're gaming. You slip on D20, choke on a Hot Pocket, trip over the fat sloppy guy's backpack he leaves on the floor, crap yourself to death after 3 bowls of OFM's Saturday game night chili, stroke while arguing about LOS, kill yourself out of boredom after four hours of watching your battleships move six inches during Seekrieg, etc.

What happens to your minis? Who gets them? Could they be tossed, sold at a "dead guy's stuff" yard sale? Auctioned off piecemeal to unknown people? Do you want them to find a good home, where they will be used? Etc.

Some have been identified as going to so-and-so, others have a reasonable cash value to ask, and a few I expect will be retained by my wife as mementos.

They will all be left to my fellow gamers.

Since my kids aren't interested in any of it, I don't really care where it ends up. I can't take it with me. I hope my wife can find a good home for them.

The IRS has dibs.

In our club one the three occasions when members have died the figures have been collected and listed by a couple of members. Those figures which other members want to keep have then been distributed, on the understanding that the figures must continue to be used for games in the club. The remainder were sold with the proceeds being returned to the bereaved family, or as in the most recent case, and in line with the deceased's wishes, they were put into club funds. It looks likely that the last man standing will need to open a shop.

Hmmm. Once more, subject line and question are out of alignment. I already went to a better place about a year and a half ago, moving from Reston Virginia to Fort Wayne Indiana. (My maximum table went from 4x4 to 6x12, and there was adequate storage.) I got most of my figures, and the rest are going to people who are more likely to play with them and/or who pay me money for them.

When I die, the son inherits, but I've told hom to leave the 30mm CLS Napoleonics with the old gang. No one else wants them anyway.

Sell some, some of our group gets some.

Know that figures sold by friends of the departed are at "fire sale: prices. Like any other asset, the executor can frequently derive a better price via auction. Have your heirs recognize the value of the lead and perhaps put out their inheritance on consignment. That said, there was an ebay seller I purchased from years ago who was disposing of estate figures. He still has several lots from then that are posted: time for a fire sale on those.

Make sure your last resting place has been dug deep enough and have it put there with you.

My sons will split it up. My wife will sell anything they don't want.

My estate.

Who cares?

Won't any better place already have all the minis we need, painted just how we like 'em? And they'll rebase themselves!

I care somewhat, and hope there is a little time between knowing and going. And those here are the only ones who could appreciate them.

There is no better place than here.

My wife is wise in the ways of E-Bay!

My kids, I suppose.

My designated War gaming pals will clear out the collection and sell them, giving the proceeds to my dependants.

I am of an age where we have already done this for a few people.

Its in my will. Tricky to find someone to give them to. 46 years of collecting to find a home for.

Who said anything about a BETTER place???

My figures, rules, and boxed games will be buried with me, with the better painted armies lining my coffin.

Unless, of course, the world goes into the crapper before hand and then, I suspect, my stuff will only be so much irradiated ash.

The place I am going after I die will melt them, so I definitely can't take them with me. Whoever happens to get all my crap when I die will hire someone to sell them off. I recommend a 15% commission. High enough to encourage getting good prices. Not so high that they will overprice and hang on to them forever. Before that, the executor/executrix will ask people if they want some and hand those out at his/her discretion. It'd be great if a few people played a couple games to determine ownership of some.

I forgot to add the option of being buried with your minis, like King Tut.

1,000 years from now, your corpse and your "Afterlife Army" will be in some museum.

How about: Assign an heir to them, with the stipulation they must display them on shelves when not in use in perpetuity? LOL! I might do that. Leave them all to OFM, so everyday, he sees the shelf, and knows Smokey is flipping him the bird from above! :)

(actually, as a TSATF guy, OFM will probably be happy with all that stuff)

I hate buying dead freind's stuff.

Feel bad buying it, and feel bad not buying because the B word widow wants 1000% over market value. No win situation.

Old guy owned a gaming store in the middle of nowhere, near Muscogee, OK. Loved the dude. Made GREAT figures. Nice AWI line, and others. Made great 15mm Zulus too

He passed. Wife's initial sale price was more than you could buy Standard Oil for.

Of course the molds were never sold, and the line is now extinct.