Models that have disappeared or been thrown out

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**Million**

When I was a school-child I very naively brought my small tyranid army to a LGS to sell on my behalf (they had a sale or return policy, took 30%). When I went back to see how they were selling, the shop had closed down and gone

**Koppo**

Did sombody say meme?

**warriorpriest**

Koppo wrote:
Did sombody say meme?

my new desktop background.

**Ouze**

Million wrote:
When I was a school-child I very naively brought my small tyranid army to a LGS to sell on my behalf (they had a sale or return policy, took 30%). When I went back to see how they were selling, the shop had closed down and gone

Oh man. I had something like that happen too; that sucks really bad. It wasn't warhams though, it was some crappy jewelry I had made.

**stratassj**

Alright so my dissapearing/destroyed/throw out story? 2006, Freshman year of college i share a dorm suite with nine other guys, unfortunately for me, all the jock/stoner mentality. I had a 2000 point space marine list at the time that i had in my room. the carry case went missing one day. I started tearing around the room.. nope not there. Cant find it.. maybe its in my car? nope not there.. about a week goes by and as im coming back from class one afternoon, theres the case, hinges ripped open dumped out in the middle of the common room. all the marine's inside? crushed, stamped on, ripped apart.. And worst of all? Not a damn thing that i could do about it. the RA's for my dorm? Their in there nightly smoking pot with the ones who did it.

Well the plus side of it? Went i went down to the at the time, local GW and let them know what happened to my stuff, The mannager at the time told me pick out some stuff, %50 off total price, and a free metal command squad. I miss guys like that.. then again.. that could be part of the reason that shop closed down two years later..

**warriorpriest**

stratassj wrote:
Alright so my dissapearing/destroyed/throw out story? 2006, Freshman year of college i share a dorm suite with nine other guys, unfortunately for me, all the jock/stoner mentality. I had a 2000 point space marine list at the time that i had in my room. the carry case went missing one day. I started tearing around the room.. nope not there. Cant find it.. maybe its in my car? nope not there.. about a week goes by and as im coming back from class one afternoon, theres the case, hinges ripped open dumped out in the middle of the common room. all the marine's inside? crushed, stamped on, ripped apart.. And worst of all? Not a damn thing that i could do about it. the RA's for my dorm? Their in there nightly smoking pot with the ones who did it.

Well the plus side of it? Went i went down to the at the time, local GW and let them know what happened to my stuff, The mannager at the time told me pick out some stuff, %50 off total price, and a free metal command squad. I miss guys like that.. then again.. that could be part of the reason that shop closed down two years later..

Sorry,

That would be 9 bodies I would have had to dispose of...........

**timetowaste85**

warriorpriest wrote:
stratassj wrote:
Alright so my dissapearing/destroyed/throw out story? 2006, Freshman year of college i share a dorm suite with nine other guys, unfortunately for me, all the jock/stoner mentality. I had a 2000 point space marine list at the time that i had in my room. the carry case went missing one day. I started tearing around the room.. nope not there. Cant find it.. maybe its in my car? nope not there.. about a week goes by and as im coming back from class one afternoon, theres the case, hinges ripped open dumped out in the middle of the common room. all the marine's inside? crushed, stamped on, ripped apart.. And worst of all? Not a damn thing that i could do about it. the RA's for my dorm? Their in there nightly smoking pot with the ones who did it.

Well the plus side of it? Went i went down to the at the time, local GW and let them know what happened to my stuff, The mannager at the time told me pick out some stuff, %50 off total price, and a free metal command squad. I miss guys like that.. then again.. that could be part of the reason that shop closed down two years later..

Sorry,

That would be 9 bodies I would have had to dispose of...........

I had a roommate in college who set one of my Empire infantry on fire. I told him if it happened again, I'd set him on fire. I promptly moved out.

**Bossk_Hogg**

pities2004 wrote:
Alex Kolodotschko wrote:

Also i'd shift your X-Box out of the lounge, everyone knows that girls would rather be watching Sex in the City than playing computer games.

This statement is false

No kidding, My wife has a heart filled with murder that is best satiated elextronically, lest she take it out on me and the cats.

I've been painting for about 25 years now, so have lost/broken/had stolen tons of minis. One of the cats managed to crash over a display case, wall anchor and all, resulting in significant damage to the models I considered my best work. Its just stuff. It kind of matters, but in the end, less than you think.

I might have a talk w your friend, and indicate that she hurt your feelings/upset you with her with her nonconcern if you plan on hanging out with them after you move. Petty things have a habit of festering.

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Son of Landuin wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:
I had a squirrel steal a limited edition Thunderbolt Pilot.

I still do not understand why.

This is where one of these might come In handy.

A... porch sputnik?

I'm not sure what that is...

**lucasbuffalo**

Mom accidentally dropped my pro-painted and nicely based CSM Terminator Lord (The one that looks like he's flipping the bird due to the long middle claw) in the trash when I was visiting them. Admits to moving stuff while taking out the trash in that room, and realized when I asked her about it what had happened. Was pretty bummed.

**Bangbangboom**

On topic; I hobby in my living room, it has a hard floor. Every bit I drop bouncers and disappears into no where. Its just something I've come to expect.

Off topic; You move into a mates place for a couple of weeks, turns into a couple of months. Spread all your hobby crap out and hog the TV with your Xbox. Then act surprised when she becomes less then amenable. Does that about sum it up?

Maybe pack your crap up until you find somewhere to live and remember whether your helping with the rent or not she is doing you a favour and you are the inconvenience.

At the moment you sound like a ungrateful and stroppy teenager.

I mean seriously suck it up. Are you really going to sacrifice the friendship, of someone willing to put you up, over $60 of accidental binned toys, having to walk down the street to get to your car and getting blamed for some things that weren't your fault.

If I was your mate reading this I'd tell you to go sleep in your fething car.

**timetowaste85**

Bangbangboom wrote:
On topic; I hobby in my living room, it has a hard floor. Every bit I drop bouncers and disappears into no where. Its just something I've come to expect.

Off topic; You move into a mates place for a couple of weeks, turns into a couple of months. Spread all your hobby crap out and hog the TV with your Xbox. Then act surprised when she becomes less then amenable. Does that about sum it up?

Maybe pack your crap up until you find somewhere to live and remember whether your helping with the rent or not she is doing you a favour and you are the inconvenience.

At the moment you sound like a ungrateful and stroppy teenager.

I mean seriously suck it up. Are you really going to sacrifice the friendship, of someone willing to put you up, over $60 of accidental binned toys, having to walk down the street to get to your car and getting blamed for some things that weren't your fault.

If I was your mate reading this I'd tell you to go sleep in your fething car.

Uh...try reading the full post, you summed up pretty incorrectly. My Xbox is attached to my tv in the basement. Isn't even near anything, completely out of the way: she misunderstood that it being on did not mean it was stealing connection speed, as I only had it up for DVDs. So that was incorrect. As for the models, I have a couple things on my dresser downstairs, again, nothing near her stuff or in her way. There was a 3" container outside the house to keep from stinking it up due to acetone (=courteous, not disrespectful). She threw it out after I gave her the heads up what it was. If it was only the models, I'd agree I was being petty. It's been a collection of different things, the models are just the latest thing. But thanks for the insulting statement that proves you only got part of it.

And PS: the bs started 2 days after I got in. Has nothing to do with being ungrateful, it has everything to do with being sick of being blamed for everything.

Basically, the problem I have with your opinion is you think since my friend did me a favor, she can treat me however she'd like. I don't expect to be treated like a king, but I also don't expect to get treated like crap.

**wolfmerc**

oh ugh man reading this topic can bring out the feels, i'm only a novice when it comes to this hobby, but. OUCH to most of these posts.

Since i share the 40k table with my brother the most crap i've gotten from him is just stealing my bits. nothing "bad" to these standards.

**Liquid Squid**

I had bought 2 boxes of Nobz 2 years ago, while visiting my grandparents for the weekend. I had brought all the stuff I needed to assemble them, so I got to it right away. By the time I left, I only had seven left. I was a bit bummed, but I still had a workable unit. Funnily enough, those three Nobz turned up on a shelf in their shed a couple of months ago. Covered in dust, but completely intact.

**H.B.M.C.**

timetowaste85 wrote:
... and I'm partially considering taking the amount out of what I owe her for electricity for the month.

Yeah. 'Cause that'll end well.

**CloudRider**

timetowaste85 wrote:
azreal13 wrote:
Honestly? She's doing you a solid, and perhaps should have been a bit more apologetic, but I'd suck it up and chalk it down to experience.

I do sympathise though, when I quit at the end of 2nd, I gave my Eldar army to a mate to sell, as he had more gaming buddies than I did.

Never saw him or the models again.

We're talking of thousands of points, all special characters, dreadnought, war walker, 10 Wraithguard, Harlequins, full size squads of all Aspect Warriors, all metal.

That stung a bit

Doing me a "solid" only goes so far...if anything goes slightly wrong in the house (she rents to two others) I get blamed before anyone else (and there's been a bunch), my sister's boyfriend gets parking privileges in the driveway while I have to park down the road (I pay a small rent, he pays nothing), yells at me for playing games on my Xbox because she assumes I'm playing online and hogging the Internet (my gold account is expired and I explained as such that I'm not even online), I get yelled at if I don't put the sponge away before I put the dishes away after washing them (yeah, I wish I was kidding-I'm dead serious), generally don't get thanked for helping out around the house or cooking (got my first thank you tonight since I've been here a month)...it feels pretty close to tyrannical. Sadly, I could go on, but I think that's probably enough venting. I've put up with it because I have no choice while I wait for the new apartment-it's her house, I kinda have to play by her rules. I just don't have to like them. Our friendship will pretty much be null and void once I'm out-even now, I'm only civil at face value. Throwing out my models and giving a shoulder shrug and not even really caring is just the final straw. But, since my choice is living on the street or accepting her crappy rules for another 3 weeks...I'd say my options are limited, no? And trying to discuss these things with her hasn't worked-I've tried to be civil and discuss them, she just raises her voice over mine, whines about how difficult it is having me here with two other people and walks off. Yeah-options are pretty much non-existant. I try to stay out of the house except to sleep.

Wow, this was supposed to be about models that took a hike, not a vent session. Anyways, appreciate anyone who listens.

Sh1t man, sounds like crap.
Im only 16 so I wouldn't know much about it.
Haha I thought living at my dads place was bad...
#FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS

good luck man

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Ild just sprayed the assault on black reach orks at about lunch time and put them out in the backyard on an old tree stump so they could dry.
Being the idiot I am I left them there overnight.
"I'll just get them tomorrow" I said to myself.

Got up the next morning to grab the board they were on and I noticed a few we're missing..
I never found out why...

**notprop**

I've stashed my stuff pretty well over the years but two things stick in my mind.

My Chainsaw Warrior model that I used as my IG Colonel has disappeared, probably in my last move 6-7 years ago. I genuinely miss that feller. I've pondered getting another from eBay but it wouldn't be the same.

I've also lost a copy of the original Mighty Empires boxed game. The rule book turned up but I last saw the box and components about 15+ years ago, it certainly never left my parents home by may hand. Occasionally I find a cardboard hex tile in a random model box. I fancy my Mum sold it at a car boot sale or it could have been..........

**TheDraconicLord**

warriorpriest wrote:
stratassj wrote:
Alright so my dissapearing/destroyed/throw out story? 2006, Freshman year of college i share a dorm suite with nine other guys, unfortunately for me, all the jock/stoner mentality. I had a 2000 point space marine list at the time that i had in my room. the carry case went missing one day. I started tearing around the room.. nope not there. Cant find it.. maybe its in my car? nope not there.. about a week goes by and as im coming back from class one afternoon, theres the case, hinges ripped open dumped out in the middle of the common room. all the marine's inside? crushed, stamped on, ripped apart.. And worst of all? Not a damn thing that i could do about it. the RA's for my dorm? Their in there nightly smoking pot with the ones who did it.

Well the plus side of it? Went i went down to the at the time, local GW and let them know what happened to my stuff, The mannager at the time told me pick out some stuff, %50 off total price, and a free metal command squad. I miss guys like that.. then again.. that could be part of the reason that shop closed down two years later..

Sorry,

That would be 9 bodies I would have had to dispose of...........

... Sometimes murder is the right answer ... I believe this was one of those times... damn.

I'm very new to the hobby, I'm almost reaching the 1 year mark, I believe and so far I only lost 1 miniature but I honestly don't understand how and where I could have lost it. I would blame Squirrels, but they aren't that common over here.

**fishy bob**

stratassj wrote:
Alright so my dissapearing/destroyed/throw out story? 2006, Freshman year of college i share a dorm suite with nine other guys, unfortunately for me, all the jock/stoner mentality. I had a 2000 point space marine list at the time that i had in my room. the carry case went missing one day. I started tearing around the room.. nope not there. Cant find it.. maybe its in my car? nope not there.. about a week goes by and as im coming back from class one afternoon, theres the case, hinges ripped open dumped out in the middle of the common room. all the marine's inside? crushed, stamped on, ripped apart.. And worst of all? Not a damn thing that i could do about it. the RA's for my dorm? Their in there nightly smoking pot with the ones who did it.

Well the plus side of it? Went i went down to the at the time, local GW and let them know what happened to my stuff, The mannager at the time told me pick out some stuff, %50 off total price, and a free metal command squad. I miss guys like that.. then again.. that could be part of the reason that shop closed down two years later..

Awful nice of GW for standing for 50%. I'd still have the people who did it pay for the other 50%. That's them getting off bloody cheap.

**Malcador**

Allright, this was 2009. I had a about a 3500 point space marine army, and i did´nt want to play Space Marines any more. So i asked my mom if she would store the army at grandmas. Because we were putting alot of boxes(Old clothes and such) in her basement.
Recently i took a look for the army, it´s impossible to find.

**Da krimson barun**

CloudRider wrote:
timetowaste85 wrote:
azreal13 wrote:
Honestly? She's doing you a solid, and perhaps should have been a bit more apologetic, but I'd suck it up and chalk it down to experience.

I do sympathise though, when I quit at the end of 2nd, I gave my Eldar army to a mate to sell, as he had more gaming buddies than I did.

Never saw him or the models again.

We're talking of thousands of points, all special characters, dreadnought, war walker, 10 Wraithguard, Harlequins, full size squads of all Aspect Warriors, all metal.

That stung a bit

Doing me a "solid" only goes so far...if anything goes slightly wrong in the house (she rents to two others) I get blamed before anyone else (and there's been a bunch), my sister's boyfriend gets parking privileges in the driveway while I have to park down the road (I pay a small rent, he pays nothing), yells at me for playing games on my Xbox because she assumes I'm playing online and hogging the Internet (my gold account is expired and I explained as such that I'm not even online), I get yelled at if I don't put the sponge away before I put the dishes away after washing them (yeah, I wish I was kidding-I'm dead serious), generally don't get thanked for helping out around the house or cooking (got my first thank you tonight since I've been here a month)...it feels pretty close to tyrannical. Sadly, I could go on, but I think that's probably enough venting. I've put up with it because I have no choice while I wait for the new apartment-it's her house, I kinda have to play by her rules. I just don't have to like them. Our friendship will pretty much be null and void once I'm out-even now, I'm only civil at face value. Throwing out my models and giving a shoulder shrug and not even really caring is just the final straw. But, since my choice is living on the street or accepting her crappy rules for another 3 weeks...I'd say my options are limited, no? And trying to discuss these things with her hasn't worked-I've tried to be civil and discuss them, she just raises her voice over mine, whines about how difficult it is having me here with two other people and walks off. Yeah-options are pretty much non-existant. I try to stay out of the house except to sleep.

Wow, this was supposed to be about models that took a hike, not a vent session. Anyways, appreciate anyone who listens.

Sh1t man, sounds like crap.
Im only 16 so I wouldn't know much about it.
Haha I thought living at my dads place was bad...
#FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS
good luck man

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Ild just sprayed the assault on black reach orks at about lunch time and put them out in the backyard on an old tree stump so they could dry.
Being the idiot I am I left them there overnight.
"I'll just get them tomorrow" I said to myself.

Got up the next morning to grab the board they were on and I noticed a few we're missing..
I never found out why...

Squirels!

**Alfndrate**

My 2250pt Descent of Angels BA list went missing when I was building a game board in my fraternity house. They turned up a few months later in an employee's locker at my school... They stole it, probably thinking it was a gun (it was in a Plano gun case

) and never did anything with it once they found out there was no gun.

I then sold that army to WarOne.

**warriorpriest**

Alfndrate wrote:
My 2250pt Descent of Angels BA list went missing when I was building a game board in my fraternity house. They turned up a few months later in an employee's locker at my school... They stole it, probably thinking it was a gun (it was in a Plano gun case ) and never did anything with it once they found out there was no gun.

I then sold that army to WarOne.

Did you have the guy arrested for theft??

He would probably just blame the squirrels.

**Alfndrate**

warriorpriest wrote:
Alfndrate wrote:
My 2250pt Descent of Angels BA list went missing when I was building a game board in my fraternity house. They turned up a few months later in an employee's locker at my school... They stole it, probably thinking it was a gun (it was in a Plano gun case ) and never did anything with it once they found out there was no gun.

I then sold that army to WarOne.

Did you have the guy arrested for theft??

He would probably just blame the squirrels.

No because I didn't care, he had been fired from his job (which is how they found the stuff to begin with)

**col. krazy kenny**

Moving across the country and having two totes get left behind that had 2 whfb armies and two BB teams.Not to mention my op books.luckily it was out of famlys house so they are safe. But damn i am not about to drive for three days to get them.

**Storm Lord**

Personally I have only 'lost' one model so far, but the story is a little odd considering how it happened. Put simply my friends and I were playing a 40k apocalypse game about 3 years ago and part way through the game one of my dead Necrons went missing from underneath the vortex grenade template (not sure why we put it underneath in the first place). Anyway, we shrugged it off until the game ended assuming it would turn up elsewhere and started packing away everything.

It's at this point one of my friends discovers one of his devilfish is rattling. That may not seem odd until we remembered it was completely sealed up, with no way for anything to get in aside from a small hole on the roof which would be too small for a model to fit through. Turns out my Necron had somehow ended up inside the devilfish with no logical explanation of how it had occurred. Only last week did I finally get the 'lost' model back when he took the tank apart.

So I have only two possible theories of how this happened, firstly the vortex grenade template displaces anything underneath it (dice have vanished from it before). Or, squirrels. Could be either

**cormadepanda**

I have had a space marine scout squad go missing before. We were playing a game, and they got blown to bits, and then the worst happened table flip. (the corner leg of the table broke off) The scouts vanished. We picked up all the models and recovered 99% of them.

four scout models were missing in the fray. Over the next two years I find them in my house as they turn up. Each one was next to a dead mouse. I blame squirrels.

**notprop**

Storm Lord wrote:
Personally I have only 'lost' one model so far, but the story is a little odd considering how it happened. Put simply my friends and I were playing a 40k apocalypse game about 3 years ago and part way through the game one of my dead Necrons went missing from underneath the vortex grenade template (not sure why we put it underneath in the first place). Anyway, we shrugged it off until the game ended assuming it would turn up elsewhere and started packing away everything.

It's at this point one of my friends discovers one of his devilfish is rattling. That may not seem odd until we remembered it was completely sealed up, with no way for anything to get in aside from a small hole on the roof which would be too small for a model to fit through. Turns out my Necron had somehow ended up inside the devilfish with no logical explanation of how it had occurred. Only last week did I finally get the 'lost' model back when he took the tank apart.

So I have only two possible theories of how this happened, firstly the vortex grenade template displaces anything underneath it (dice have vanished from it before). Or, squirrels. Could be either

Are you sure it wasn't a wormhole template?

Nah, its a Classic secret squirrel manoeuvre!

**Eilif**

timetowaste85 wrote:

Uh...try reading the full post, you summed up pretty incorrectly. My Xbox is attached to my tv in the basement. Isn't even near anything, completely out of the way: she misunderstood that it being on did not mean it was stealing connection speed, as I only had it up for DVDs. So that was incorrect. As for the models, I have a couple things on my dresser downstairs, again, nothing near her stuff or in her way. There was a 3" container outside the house to keep from stinking it up due to acetone (=courteous, not disrespectful). She threw it out after I gave her the heads up what it was. If it was only the models, I'd agree I was being petty. It's been a collection of different things, the models are just the latest thing. But thanks for the insulting statement that proves you only got part of it.

And PS: the bs started 2 days after I got in. Has nothing to do with being ungrateful, it has everything to do with being sick of being blamed for everything.

Regardless of her bad behavior, you've got no leverage and she's got you over a barrel. Go ahead and deduct the cash from what you pay her, but only if:

1) You're about to move out. It's not worth risking getting kicked onto the street if you don't have a place to go.
2) You've already got your valuables moved out. She might grab some of your stuff if you don't pay, and in that situation, you will never see your stuff again.

Good luck getting out of there.

**TheAuldGrump**

My own story is twenty years old now - my entire collection of miniatures was stolen - I thought that I knew who had stolen them, but I had no proof.

A few years later the person's mom was having a yard sale, and the sign said 'games, toys, D&D' - so I went and had a look.

Sure enough, there was my miniatures collection, somewhat the worse for wear.

She was selling the entire collection for $5.... so I bought it, then told her that her son had stolen the miniatures from me.

Turned out that she was selling his stuff because he was in jail over drug charges - she offered me my $5 back, but I told her 'no, keep the money - don't tell him that I am the one that bought them.... But do tell him how much you sold them for.'

The Auld Grump, some of those miniatures were already ten years old when he stole them....

**Son of Landuin**

Bossk_Hogg wrote:
pities2004 wrote:
Alex Kolodotschko wrote:

Also i'd shift your X-Box out of the lounge, everyone knows that girls would rather be watching Sex in the City than playing computer games.

This statement is false

No kidding, My wife has a heart filled with murder that is best satiated elextronically, lest she take it out on me and the cats.

I've been painting for about 25 years now, so have lost/broken/had stolen tons of minis. One of the cats managed to crash over a display case, wall anchor and all, resulting in significant damage to the models I considered my best work. Its just stuff. It kind of matters, but in the end, less than you think.

I might have a talk w your friend, and indicate that she hurt your feelings/upset you with her with her nonconcern if you plan on hanging out with them after you move. Petty things have a habit of festering.

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Son of Landuin wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:
I had a squirrel steal a limited edition Thunderbolt Pilot.

I still do not understand why.

This is where one of these might come In handy.

A... porch sputnik?

I'm not sure what that is...

If you click on it it will work. Sorry, I was using my phone when i put it on so that might be why its not working