How do you pick up your figures?

[Plynkes]

I insist everyone wear white gloves and use silver serving tongs to handle the figures.

No, not really. I accept battle damage as an inevitable part of gaming, and am quite happy to do running repairs after a gaming session. The clumsy apes that I game with are always dropping and bashing my precious little darlings, and while I may be screaming inside, I always laugh it off at the table-side and tell them not to worry. My relationships with living, breathing human beings are more important to me than those with my little metal homunculi.

My biggest problem as a colonial gamer is detached spears and shields. I don't go in for pinning or anything for those parts, though.  Because I think a shield or spear that has come loose where it is glued to the hand is much easier to fix than one that has snapped. I prefer the weak point to be the glue rather than some part of the structure of the model itself.

[Hammers]

...am quite happy to do running repairs after a gaming session.

I shun maintenance work. Invalids of the battlefield, with chipped paint, bent rifles and broken off spears tend to aggregate on the forlorn waste of Tartaros which is the top shelf in my shed where they restlessly roam in the faint hope that I will bend them straight and give them a lick of paint.