"Ever just throw figures away?" Topic

Okay I know this is heresy, but have you ever just tossed some figs in the bin?
Perhaps they were crappy plastic or lead jobs that just were not what you expected when you ordered.
Or perhaps you ended up with a few extra minis from a project and just didn't want to take them to the new house.
Various reasons.
I have tossed some crappy plastics and a few extra 15mm figs. Rarely really, but trying to find a home for 10 MAW 15mm gunners is just a chore.

No.

I understand the individual words that you used, but when you put them together like that, they just don't make any sense to me.

Yes. 20mm plastics for Bolt Action. Really got tired of playing. No way I could get them sold. Even tried to donate them to the wargaming club at the high school I teach at (I don't run the club) and the advisor turned me down because he wanted me to play Bolt Action. When I moved and lost storage space I honestly dumped them so I had a reason not to play.

Yes, but very few. Mostly conversion that just didn't work out.

Define "thrown away". I've had a few botched conversions that went into the melting pot, but otherwise, no.

heresy

You can do that?

I botched a primer job and I sold them here but the guy was so upset he squashed all of them, a WWI army, so I refunded and tossed them rulebook and all.

Yes I have. Wasn't interested in them any more and didn't want to have the bother of trying to sell/pack/ship them.

Once I purchased some figures that originated from the Dark Ages of miniature design, based on the recomendation of another gamer. They were awful. Ended up using them as weights in a resin casting for a modeling project. I guess technically I didn't throw them away, as they still had a use. But they were pretty bad…

Damon.

NO!!!! Always a use for old crap figures. I have used such to teach the basics of figure painting. Bodies on a battlefield. Parts of "Stuff". Etc.

Yes! When a paint job went sooo bad, despite multiple touch ups. Also, some rubbish casts.

Melted them down & recast or added lead & cast bullets from them.

I gave my childhood 1/72 collection in a shoebox to some little shits related to my former housemate. Worst decision I ever made. I have so many regrets in life. I hate all those ers that say they have no regrets. How the can you have no regrets???

No. I've given stuff away though.

I tried to sell off most of my Airfix figures at a Garage Sale. I don't think they sold and were probably tossed with all the other stuff when the house was sold. Yes I miss looking at them from time to time but in reality they were just taking up space.

No. I don't believe I have ever done that.

Partners over the decades may have suggested it but guess who won those battles, hehe.

Have fun.

Most of my collection is 1/72nd Plastic and I have tossed some over the years: bad paint jobs on marginal sculpts, stupid poses, broken figs, redundant stuff.

Yes; when they get lead rot, no matter how well painted, it is the only thing to do.

Rick

Yes.

Yes.

Yes

MAW gunners?

Stop! You are hurting my ears!

Never.

Very few, mainly brittle plastic figures probably 40 years old. I have a few in my spares box, though, providing arms legs and heads when needed. And some waiting to be melted down (but since I've never melted any down …)

Old Plastic miniatures yes, if they are broken, and not worth fixing. A couple lead ones that got stepped on once (stomped on really, and they were true lead).

All times made me very emotional, the black bunting around the trash cans had people asking me about it for weeks, and that hurt having to recount the incidents. I… can't talk more about this… Sorry… thought I had gotten over it.

Decades ago, I had the grandiose plan of building 15mm WRG rules armies for all of the ECW forces--Royalist (English, Scots & Welsh), Early Parlementarian, New Model, & both Irish factions. I don't recall the figure company that I bought the models from but they were cheap & I amassed a few hundred. They were abysmal but I organized them into units & put them in plastic baggies which went into a cardboard box that set on a shelf for years. I did try to sell them at a fire-sale price at 2 cons--no takers. When I rediscovered them a few months ago & accepted that I'd never use them & that no one would buy them they ended out on the curb.

"Throw" "Figures" "Away".

I can't use those three words in the same sentence without going into convulsions.

I just spoke to my doctor and she prescribed a cure. I added the word "Never" in front of the three words "Throw" "Figures" "Away", and the convulsions stopped.

Whoa!!! That was a close call!

Yep, several times in fact.I really only regret the time I threw out my collection of converted plastic Orcs, Easterlings, Haradrim and Olog-Hai.

Yes, back in the days when you could ask for a free sample.
Some real bad stuff, that looked like the owners kids had made them ;)

No, but wouldn't throw them away if I didn't want them, I would melt them .

Not yet. But it will come to that if the flea markets stay closed long enough. If I don't move and pitch them, when I die my son will call in a dumpster.

Never.

Yes, but not very many or very often.

pjm

I don't understand the question. Each word sounds like a word I know, but they don't make sense together.

I have a stack of Perry plastic ACW that is potentially bin fodder, l have painted more than enough for my modest sized games so they really are surplus but cannot be bothered to try and sell them.

Yes, but not in a long time.

I used to have a big coffee can I tossed old minis into, with the notion of recasting them some day. It got pretty full. I'm not entirely sure where it is now.

But I really don't like tossing metal minis I haven't butchered for parts. I consider the plastic ones to be expendable, especially If I give them a crappy paint job I can't easily fix.

I stepped away from wargaming for 10 years. When I started up again, I found some infected with Lead Rot. They were beyond saving, so I tossed them.

I find myself doing this more and more. Threw away a bunch of Chronopia stuff from the 90's that went to four or five flea markets and got no takers. Life seems shorter. I dunno!

I've thrown away a few that were badly miscast or broken beyond easy repair.

Yes. Cleaned House on two occasions. Once in the 90s when preparing to movE from an apartment to a house.

The lot in question included first and second editions of "Space Hulk" as well as a first edition "Battlefleet Gothic."

2nd time in the mid-2000s included both painted and unpainted minis from numerous incomplete projects.