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Valhallan42nd wrote:

Pipboy101 wrote:Well, it is up to my wife what to do with my minis. I would like some to go to my LFGS owner since he has been such a good friend over the years. The rest passed out between my friends as my wife sees fit.

There is only one I would like to go with me. It is a single imperial guardsman. It is the best model I have every made. Simple and elegant in his posing. It is such an epic model I would love to be dug up by future historians and have them wonder what the social importance of the figure means.

I hadn't considered messing with future archeologists! That's worth being buried with at least one plastic figure...

Or be buried with a Greater Daemon of Khorne
They will wonder what evil religion this man and his daemonic idol are from.


Personaly I will be cremated and have bits of my ashes thrown everywhere i can trace my lineage so my minis are going in coffin!

I wont need to worry. By the time I die, I'll have invented the 'Growth Ray' and the 'Come-a-live-a-ray'. I'll have my real life techpriest build me a golden toilet that I can sit on for all eternity.

That, or I'd give them away to Family or Friends or eBay.

I have regeneration, so on a 4+ I'll be keeping 'em

Yeah,when i die il make all my metal figures melted down,and il be a chaos dreadnought,to serve thechaos gods when i are dead.

No problem here, they go to my grandsons. Who love playing as much as I do.

garret wrote:By the time im going to die gw would have probably have changed and may not even make the game anymore.
but if it was suddenly? my mom would probably just keep them the way they are and look back on them with memories.

One would hope you go after your mother.

Taking them with me. Hey, that Chinese Emperor had a whole vault of life-sized ones, so why can't I take mine with me too?

I'm going to create a space marine creator and use it on myself.
So i won't die.

Either that or i turn my minis into real live people.

If that doesn't work. I want them to be handed down through my family so that I will live on forever in spirit. PWNED!

My cousin and I started Playing 40k together. We went halves on the 3rd edition Starter set w/ SM and DE. He Liked the SM, I liked the DE. It was a blast cause like every week we'd get together to play and we'd always bring out a new unit we'd put together that week.

He eventually started a Chaos Word Bearer's army after their re-vamp late 3rd early 4th while he was away w/ the US Army on a mission to Kosovo. Sadly just before his return home he was diagnosed w/ a brain tumor.

He continued to play, paint, model and fight the cancer til he could do so no longer. He put the models away and began selling off everything that would never be worked on. So after about 4 years the cancer took him. He had moved back in with his mother since he had been unable to meet the physical/emotional demands of living alone. When I heard she wanted to let the family pick things from his belongings my only request was his 40k and assorted models.

I still can't open the cases holding his SM army without getting seriously emotional...

My minis will probably awaken one night and murder me in my sleep. So I have no clue.

Everything I have is willed to my younger brother.

malfred wrote:My minis will probably awaken one night and murder me in my sleep. So I have no clue.

Well now,that's certainly a disturbing thought...and after you spent all that time and money on them,ungrateful little gaks.

I would imagine that most of my stuff would be given away by my wife to my only local gaming buddy. Anything leftover would be eBayed. Not sure if she'd keep any of them, since I don't think she has much of a clue as to which ones I value, and none of them mean a lick to her (exepting that she knows that I enjoy painting immensely).

I think I'll discuss this very topic with my wife this evening! It'll be interesting to hear her response.

Well, when I die I am hoping to get a funeral mound on the family farm. (Which I will probably inherit anyways seeing as the rest of my siblings detest farming.) So Im going to get a big burial mound with a couple of chambers for all of my stuff. Above my sarcophagus will be a circle of shelves, upon those shelves my minis will wait until the resurrection, guarding my body until they are called upon again to wage war.

Seriously, Im doin that gak.

Like most of you if I end up having kids that game they can have them, otherwise they can be trashed or sold... I'm sure they still won't be completely painted.

I'm currently intestate, so by default they'll be going to my son.

My will has people that the miniatures are designated to go to. That's what happens when your wife is a lawyer.

Well I don't know about when I die, but strangely enough when I worked at a county dump, we would get tons of warhammer.

I'm guessing that during my time there a few gamers had either had exes throw out their stuff or they just got fed up.

Though one time I did find out that a gamer in question had passed on, he was a middle aged gentleman and I found several painted fantasy figures as well as a leman russ BT and Abaddon the Despoiler, as well as other artifacts from his walk of life. I talked briefly to the person throwing it out and they said his ex wife didn't bother to keep anything for their son, and just tossed it away. So his friend was charged with disposing the rest.

Really a tragic state of things, I can only imagine when I find things like this in my line of work I have to wonder why.

One time I found a huge duffel bag full of codexes, and some BL books including the Killing Ground UM novel, a almost complete black reach set and some sprues of old fantasy orks and leman russ track guards.

Trash becomes treasure eh?

I have some options, leave it to my kid or leave it to my wife (who will trash it all with a hammer because of the time I spended sculpting)... Since Greenstuff resists some vulcanizations temperatures I dont want to be ashes inside a jar full of GS models.

Rymafyr wrote:
I still can't open the cases holding his SM army without getting seriously emotional...

, imo though i think he would want you to, like carrying on his spirit in a game you both enjoyed..

I am going out on a fire ship (probably into the North Sea... don't want to risk getting washed into the Irish by mistake ) when I die.

My models will probably go to my brother, or any children I have which are interested in wargames.

Howard A Treesong wrote:When I die of old age many will virtually be antiques. I'll probably have figures now that I will still have in 60 years time, and some of them are 20-30 years old. They will be ancient. I imagine that a collectors market will exist and that if my children don't take them they will be sold off. I'm happy enough with that. If I died now, I guess the wife would keep some and get rid of the rest which I'm happy for her to do.

What a strangely morbid thread.

This.

I have some minis that are already older than I am. My widow and three girlfriends can split the profits. I already promised my Battletech minis to a buddy.

I have wondered about this before weirdly . I might give them to my friend Liam , but he would probably stick them on ebay, yeah he is fair evil.

If either of my daughters pick up the hobby when they get older, my minis will go to them.

Otherwise, probably to Aaron. And barring that, my wife will chuck them out.

When I die, my playable models and the conversions that my friends/family(?) will want will probably be grab-bagged. The rest will go where all other orphaned mini's go... www.ebay.com

As for my dice, I plan to haunt them and make sure the Curse of Thousand s lives on forever!

Interesting thought. I don't have alot of metal models that will be worth anything someday, so they likely won't be worth much. My wife is not at all interested in gaming, so in order of priority:

1)Assuming I have interested children or grandchildren or other relatins, they will get them.

2) If no relations, and I have at that time a gaming group or good friends who game, they will get them.

3) Otherwise, I'll probably ask that my wife give them to a FLGS, or game club.

Well, if you have alot of the old rogue trader minis you could put it in your will that if you died before the world ends that your family must keep them to get any of your money. This is so when the zombie start to close in they can melt down the minis to make bullets in order to protect themselves.

Movie Montage Time

(Zombies shuffling up the road to the border up house. A family worries inside.)

Daughter: What are we going to do! We are out of bullets!
Son: How about all those old toys dad willed to us. They're lead!
Mom: Great thinking!

(Que up 80s montage pop music.)

BANG!
A zombie's head blows up.
BANG!
Another zombie is dropped to the ground.

Mom: Thank you honey! You were such a great provider...

BANG!

Fresh wrote:

Rymafyr wrote:
I still can't open the cases holding his SM army without getting seriously emotional...

, imo though i think he would want you to, like carrying on his spirit in a game you both enjoyed..

Yeah, you're right. I've had no problem using the Word Bearer's he made. I finished up several units that were started and needed to be fleshed out. It's a real joy when I get to play against some of the guys my cousin played against and they go...'I've seen this army before..' It's nice to let them know about my cousin and its a good way to keep his memory alive.

Depending on your collection, have your minis melted down to make your coffin.

My boy would be the likely receiver. All of my other gaming materials actually go to my friend, to keep the legacy of my 15+ year RPG fantasy world alive.