What happens to your collection when you're gone?

[Brian Smaller]

'I have accumulated an awful large amount of hobby stuff over the years, and it is representing a pretty large monetary value by now. What would happen to it, should I suddenly die?'

well today I was contemplating throwing all my collection in a skip. So when I die they can do what they want with it. I wont care.

[WitchfinderGeneral]

Resurrecting this topic because an article showed up some days ago that reminded me of this thread.

This guy had a large collection, but not miniatures but big video game arcade cabinets - they needed several trucks to move his stuff: https://arcadeblogger.com/2016/08/06/pete-davies-the-invadar-arcade-collection/

[SteveBurt]

Painted historical figures are worth less than you think, if my ebay experiences are anything to go by.
You'll be lucky to recoup the cost of the bare metal/plastic. It can also be a hassle to photograph, list, post & pack (and deal with the odd complainer).
It's probably not worth the effort.

I've got many thousands of painted figures (don't know exactly how many - I have better things to do than count them), and a few hundred at most unpainted.
Best thing is to leave them to gaming friends who can do with them as they wish

[Elbows]

One of three things will happen.

A) My nephew may be of suitable age to inherit it.

B) My best friend will receive all of my gaming materials.

C) My rubbermaid bins and cardboard boxes and carrying cases will be set about me, a tape measure placed on my chest...I shall be sent out into the cold waters of the Atlantic whereupon an archer will set my grave-barge ablaze with an arrow.

[fastolfrus]

Or you could be buried in a tumulus surrounded by your grave goods sorted into ceramic pots.
Or maybe interred in a pyramid if you want your modelling tools to stay sharp in the afterlife :~}

[rebelyell2006]

Depending on how soon I die, my collections will be sold by the student loan people to help pay off my debt.  So if I die, watch for the auctions!

Or if I manage to live a long time from now, they will probably be tossed into a dumpster by whatever children my sister might create with her questionable soon-to-be husband.

[Too Bo Coo]

It's all getting buried with me....

[Too Bo Coo]

Or if I manage to live a long time from now, they will probably be tossed into a dumpster by whatever children my sister might create with her questionable soon-to-be husband.

LOL

[rebelyell2006]

LOL

I'll only go to their wedding if she pays for my plane ticket.  Or if she bribes me with sufficient plastic and lead ACW minis.

[Harry Faversham]

The mercenary little twats I call my children will have the whole lot on evilbay...
before my alcohol riddled corpse gets cold.

 

[zemjw]

It's all getting buried with me....

probably not all, but there are a couple of dwarfs that will be. I may take some sets of rules as well. Who knows, I may finally make time to read them in the afterlife

At the rate the pile is growing, however, there's a good chance I'll have enough figures to build a full tomb from them when the time comes.

[grant]

I'm doing a will on Tuesday and this is now something I will address. Interesting topic!

[Dr. Zombie]

C) My rubbermaid bins and cardboard boxes and carrying cases will be set about me, a tape measure placed on my chest...I shall be sent out into the cold waters of the Atlantic whereupon an archer will set my grave-barge ablaze with an arrow.

This is now what I am going to do.

[Too Bo Coo]

Local fish will be dying of lead poisoning?

THIS!  This is how I told my wife I wanted to go out... Put me on a boat, push it into the ocean and light er' up.

[Aaron]

I have often told my wife I want a Pittsburgh Viking funeral. Load me and my loot on a coal barge, set it alight, and send it down the Monongahela River. She insists I go in some nasty hole in the wall of the crypt. I'll barely be able to fit a pair of DBA armies in that place!