Topic: Our miniature collections in the distant future (possibly depressing)

[Gankom]

I saw Toy Story and Indian in the Cupboard at a formative age, so I m still hoping for the day my army comes to life and moves off to form their own society.

I think about the same thing myself and thats why Im hesitant to buy them a cannon, I dont want them trying to kill the sleeping giant six feet away 

If Gulliver's Travel's is anything to go by, you'll probably wake up tied to the floor. I hope you don't have to many dark elves or Slanesh who would... take advantage.

In more seriousness, I think I lean towards the idea of having my family sell stuff and the money goes to charity or to pay funeral expenses. Some models or units with more symbolic attachment will no doubt go to kids or friends. Luckily (Hopefully) in my mid 20's I'd really hope it's not something I have to worry about just yet. Of course with the advancements in technology maybe it wont be something I have to worry about for a VERY long time.

[Ursa Doom]

I imagine that my potential future children will throw all of them away in a garbage bin. Then I will haunt them forever reminding them that I no longer consider them to be my offspring.

[GamesPoet]

No kids here.  Yet ... lol.  Nephews and nieces though.  Probably a nephew or two, maybe more, might get them.

[The Peacemaker]

This is why I collect metal mini's 1st.
In subsequent decades they can be melted down into bullets and be used to fight for my children's freedom.

[ZeroTwentythree]

This is why I collect metal mini's 1st.
In subsequent decades they can be melted down into bullets and be used to fight for my children's freedom shoot the British.

[The Peacemaker]

This is why I collect metal mini's 1st.
In subsequent decades they can be melted down into bullets and be used to fight for my children's freedom shoot the British.

Well I'm Canadian so we will probably be shooting at Yanks, have to go burn down the white house again just to teach em a lesson!

[ZeroTwentythree]

This is why I collect metal mini's 1st.
In subsequent decades they can be melted down into bullets and be used to fight for my children's freedom shoot the British.

Well I'm Canadian so we will probably be shooting at Yanks, have to go burn down the white house again just to teach em a lesson!

This time a lot of us would probably roll out a red carpet from Ottawa to Washington, and host a BBQ for you on the smouldering ashes. 

[Kallstrom]

I have a big dwarf collection filled with unique looking metal models. I have a reaaally hard time finding any time to paint them, so for several years I have just beed hoarding them under my bed in various plastic boxes. I have other armies as well, but I am not as sentimental about them.

I have a plan to make my dwarf collection immortal. Before I die I have to contruct a cave with various runes on the walls, and I have to have a throne in the room where my body will be sitting in an epic armor. The runes will say "the Last Dragonslayer" or something cool, and then my miniatures will be displayed somehow in the cave with the text that once I return from the dead to fight the dragons once last time these immortal incarnations of metal warriors will join me in the fray. So when they find my cave and put the stuff in a museum the miniatures will probably get a place besides me as a historical piece.

As a side note, my girlfriend thinks I am crazy.
But I don't believe in an afterlife or a rebirth, so I might as well put some lovin' into my awesome preservation that will be the only thing remaining of me once the "me" is gone.

It is like Tutankhamun and his stuff from his grave. I don't think that they will end up in the garbage any time soon. So if one wants to immortialize their collection they better make the people of the future think that they are an epic piece of history.

[Fidelis von Sigmaringen]

I met a collector of an antique brand,
Who said—“Two small and trunkless legs of tin
Stand on the shelf. . . . Near them, on the stand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose grin,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
Produced by Citadel Miniatures;
Look on Games Workshop, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that miniature Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level stands stretch far away."

[Doc J]

I have a plan to make my dwarf collection immortal. Before I die I have to contruct a cave with various runes on the walls, and I have to have a throne in the room where my body will be sitting in an epic armor. The runes will say "the Last Dragonslayer" or something cool, and then my miniatures will be displayed somehow in the cave with the text that once I return from the dead to fight the dragons once last time these immortal incarnations of metal warriors will join me in the fray. So when they find my cave and put the stuff in a museum the miniatures will probably get a place besides me as a historical piece.

Thats not a terrible idea 

[The Peacemaker]

I have a big dwarf collection filled with unique looking metal models. I have a reaaally hard time finding any time to paint them, so for several years I have just beed hoarding them under my bed in various plastic boxes. I have other armies as well, but I am not as sentimental about them.

A dwarf player hording mini's in the underdark beneath his bed.
....and only feels sentimental about the shiny ones!


LOL.

[Artobans Ghost]

I met a collector of an antique brand,
Who said—“Two small and trunkless legs of tin
Stand on the shelf. . . . Near them, on the stand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose grin,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
Produced by Citadel Miniatures;
Look on Games Workshop, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that miniature Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level stands stretch far away."

Well done Fidelis !
I always loved the original of this.

[Fidelis von Sigmaringen]

Thank you. It is one of my favourite English poems too.