"Throwing Out Figures Accidentally" Topic

6mm gamer . . . it goes with the territory :/

No.

When I throw figures away it is intentional.

Often too much trouble to sell them on Ebay, etc., so for the few cents a figure you make it is time better spent tossing them into the trash.

Does this include leaving figures at friends places, and not getting them back?

I do sometimes seem to miscount so need extra packs … only to find the (now) 'spares' somewhere later

Phil

Cavalry standard bearer broke when I was younger. I must have thrown him out in disgust as my lancers were already losing lances left and right. I was young and stupid at the time. Now I am old and stupid.

That might explain where that pack of Chasseurs d'Afrique went to.

I had four stands of Foundry British grenadiers that have gone missing. It's possible I sold them on eBay but I can't be sure.

Some that definitely did NOT go that route were two packs of Command Decision paratroopers. Whew. I just found them yesterday. Like Dear Old Mom would have asked "Where's the last place you had them ?" In this case that worked. Not thrown out.

How to find lost objects:
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I've actually found the tip about muttering the name of the object you're looking for whilst searching actually does help.

I tend to use box lids to hold figures for spray priming. A few years back, I did a batch of about 20 20mm FAA Germans, and left them to dry overnight on my back porch. I forgot about them when I went to work, and when I got home, I found the overturned box, and two or three of the figures. I searched and searched, but never found any of the others. I finally decided that the landscapers blower must have sent them flying.

Years from now, somebody digging through my back yard is going to marvel at all the little soldiers, and wonder how they got there…

Not only has this happened to some figures, I once inadvertently threw out large bag of custom Axis & Allies dice (all nationalities with their own patterns) that in transporting between houses got mixed up with plastic grocery bags that went into the trash. By the time I realized what had happened, the garbagemen had collected for the week. Bye-bye about $50 USD to $75 USD worth of dice I have never been able to replace (most were FOW dice no longer in production) due to cost, unavailability, and total demoralization.

I bought a priest mounted on a mule to but on the command stand of my a Napoleonic Spanish army.

I certainly hope not, but suspect that could have occurred.

When I was a kid, a lot of neat stuff went missing 'cause the movers found, and took it.

Sadly, I also suspect some toy soldiers went missing, when mom or dad did a little Spring cleaning.

I have lost a rule book, and a nice, hard-back book on Cold War armies that I "loaned" out, and never got back.

Every now and then the Missus tosses something out by accident

Not often, though, and not for several years now

Mako11, I never loan out books anymore unless

1) it is a person I absolutely KNOW will make a concerted effort to return it – that list runs around one person long right now.

2) It is a paperback duplicate to a hardback book ( I actually have a couple of those.)

I lost a whole large box of OOP rule books that I loaned to a friend – when his wife found I was divorcing her best friend they were discarded immediately. I learned a lot about both of their characters that time. No cojones and no mercy respectively.

I thought I'd lost a box of miniatures – quizzed friends as to whether they were at their homes, searched high and low at my parent's home. Nothing. Oh, but I was peeved.

They turned up about 25 years later – my mother (Hi mum!) had tidied them away into a safe place. She was right (mothers tend to be) – they were undamaged and just as they'd been 25 years before!

The dog got some.

Some got old and the after a rough landing they broke both legs off. A sad but short trip to the trash can for those fine old warriors.