Toy Soldier Horror Stories ! (1 Viewer)

[Capitolron]

I thought we could start a thread about our Toy Soldier Horror Stories - I am sure each of us have our own terrible - sometimes funny - story about that dropped figure or the curio that collapsed.

My story has been told already. Max the Cat attack a WARBIRD which was resting on the floor of my office at home. I had no idea he was a NAZI Weapon of Destruction.

Here let me show the face of TOY SOLDIER DESTRUCTION !

MAD MAX !

 

[lancer]

My story also involves one of the family cats. Our cat, Gray, decided to play mountain climber on one of my display cases and almost wiped out the Battle of Quebec. French casualties were heavy but only one fatality where the infantryman was pushed off the cliff onto the rocks below. Thanks to my wife's timely intervention, the cat escaped with his nine lives intact, but he is now on my terrorism watch list. This is the only true incident of damage I have suffered in all the years I have collected figures. Knock on wood my luck continues. -- lancer

 

[1879fanatic]

Mine is still the "Basketball Supremacy". I had a 3" X 6" table set up with all my figures set up on it with wagons and horses. One of the "Children" decided to bounce a basketball around, and it allegedly flew out of his/her hand by levitation or magic. It went straight at the table and laid waste to an entire wagon section, breaking wheels, sending mounted troops off their steads, and generally decimating a whole company section of a Supply unit, along with a full platoon of 94th Highlanders. The ball then sucked back like a yo-yo into the magicians hands, as if nothing happened. This is also the reason for a permanent black line appearing across the screen of my 48" TV I have solved the problem, albeit a little late!
Mike

 

[4th Hussar]

Moral of the stories - no cats or kids around the toys ? Cats are easy to do without but I can't give up the grandkids...............................

 

[thebritfarmer]

I have 2

One through no fault of my own, setting up my Irish state coach. I manage to get all the horse stood up and linked together...JUST !!! as I stood back to admire my new prized possession, the horses began to stumble and tipped the attached coach to one side snapping off one of the very delicate lanterns. The connecting arm is very tiny and I have tried super gluing it back but it won't take. I think I may have to break off all the lanterns and glue them straight to the coach.

Second was just on Saturday, I was having a rearrange and dusting the insides of the cabinets and giving the collection a polish also. I was a little to vigorous on the 9th Lancers and bent one of the swords. Thankfully it didn't snap off, but I think next time it will

 

[Gideon]

I stepped on one of my dads Courtenay pieces.

 

[4th Hussar]

I stepped on one of my dads Courtenay pieces.

I assume your name was changed before you were banished to the colonies

 

[vandilay]

I,ve had my fair share over the years [90% of them my fault] ,
From not closing a cabinet door allowing the Young fella to launch his own version of a blitzkreig on A bunch of K and C german figures incl rommels grief.

To possibly having had one to many glasses of Red wine and knocking
A brand new Imperial figure from a great hight while doing some
Rearanging .
And last but not least , foolishly deciding to sell my K and C mosquito
As I already had the corgi version [figuring I,d reinvest the money in
A different warbird] and it getting dealt to in the post, so lesson #2
Came in the form of how useless postal insurance realy is [leaving me
$1800 kiwi poorer and a damaged plane].
On a positive note I did find out they use galvanised sheet metal aswell
as metal wire and resin in their construction .

 

[Rutledge]

I had a maid service for a while. They came a couple of times a month during the day while I was at work. At first I was pretty happy to arrive home and be greeted with a very clean house. I didnt do a vigorous inspection, however.

One day I took a closer look at my K&C collection. I had the figures placed on some open shelves. Imagine my surpise when I realized great havoc had been wreaked! Bayonets and rifles bent, a few arms were askew!!!

Upon closer exam it was apparent the figures were being picked up and dusted. Well, Im no lover of dust, but seriously! I tried putting up little signs to discourage them, but that didnt seem to work. Finally, I just cancelled the service. Now the house is dusty but the collection is pristine!

 

[kilted vampire]

Moral of the stories - no cats or kids around the toys ? Cats are easy to do without but I can't give up the grandkids...............................

You have not met my grandson "Aidan the Terrible!" Picture in albums

Then there is one word that knows no bounds EartHQuakE!!

 

[marco55]

My cats have destroyed Roman Legions,Beaten tough British Redcoats.and sent Vikings scurring back to their longboats.Just kidding,they have damaged some of the above,not too badly,except for the poor redcoats.
Mark

 

[Njja]

I had a friend over who spent a good deal of time handling various weapons.

When he left I began cleaning them and putting them away. I did not notice

that he had flipped the safety off an H&K SB89 which discharged as I handled

it. The 9mm round (only one luckily) hit a group of Britians figures then

glanced off and got stuck in the shelf above them!

Wife quickly grabbed insurance policies and called travel agent......until I

emerged intact, with ears ringing!

Total casualties were light about a 1/2 dozen with only a couple a total loss.

Bullet now resides on desk as a reminder.

 

[MCKENNA77]

Somebody on the forum once posted how their sump pump went out in their basement and unexpected rains in the area put his whole collection under water. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about? Something like that would put me in a funk for a while.

The only real horror story I had was a 5.6 earthquake that went through my living room about 1.5 years ago. It ended up looking like someone took my entire collection and played one throw of Yahtzee with it. Came out all right though, only a couple of bent rifles. The 80 gallon fish tank was able to withstand the shake-out so I got really lucky there. I did spend a while though picking the collection all back up.

Take Care

 

[Cornwallis]

My x2 British AWI Standard Bearers have fallen off the bookcase they were originally displayed on countless times and even though they are now on a diorama always seem to fall over at the slighest vibration (or my hand catches them when I am tinkering around with the display).

Therefore they have a few scratches and paint chips which are rather annoying and always catch my eye!

 

[Louis Badolato]

Somebody on the forum once posted how their sump pump went out in their basement and unexpected rains in the area put his whole collection under water. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about? Something like that would put me in a funk for a while.

The only real horror story I had was a 5.6 earthquake that went through my living room about 1.5 years ago. It ended up looking like someone took my entire collection and played one throw of Yahtzee with it. Came out all right though, only a couple of bent rifles. The 80 gallon fish tank was able to withstand the shake-out so I got really lucky there. I did spend a while though picking the collection all back up.

Take Care

Chris,

I think you are referring to what happened to Evilchuck. It wasn't a sump pump in his basement, however, it was a county sump near his house. Some genius from the county left the gate in the wrong position, and an unexpected storm caused a flood which wiped out not only his toy soldier collection, but his extensive collection of WWII weapons, equipment and memorabelia. Seeing the rusted guns, bayonets, and helmets was tragic. To top it off, despite the human agency involved (the county employee who precipitated the entire disaster by messing up the sump), his underhanded insurer (State Farm) called the flooding an act of god, and refused to pay his property damage claim.

 

[Sahara]

Chris,

I think you are referring to what happened to Evilchuck. It wasn't a sump pump in his basement, however, it was a county sump near his house. Some genius from the county left the gate in the wrong position, and an unexpected storm caused a flood which wiped out not only his toy soldier collection, but his extensive collection of WWII weapons, equipment and memorabelia. Seeing the rusted guns, bayonets, and helmets was tragic. To top it off, despite the human agency involved (the county employee who precipitated the entire disaster by messing up the sump), his underhanded insurer (State Farm) called the flooding an act of god, and refused to pay his property damage claim.

The only thing I have relatively close is a prank my wife kept pulling on me. I always have my figures perfectly arranged by era on each of my curio cabinet shelves. Not to long ago I noticed some of my K&C WWII airborne fending off some conte spartans at the battle of thermoplye. I questioned everyone wife, kids, mother-in-law and my own parents to no avail. Subsequently I let it go placed the airborne back in Normandy and went on my merry way. About a week later it all happened again, this time I had some SS Germans fighting in the crusades. I was peed off so I set up a sting with a little surv. equipment. Around 0100hrs on Feb 10th 2009 I caught the perp on video. The subject went all out this time and was seen moving all my displays onto different levels of the curio cabinet. When the perp. was finished I was taunted, my WIFE was seen leaning in towards the camera with a little snicker on her face at which point she blew the camera a kiss and shut it off.

 

[Shannon Reuss]

The only thing I have relatively close is a prank my wife kept pulling on me. I always have my figures perfectly arranged by era on each of my curio cabinet shelves. Not to long ago I noticed some of my K&C WWII airborne fending off some conte spartans at the battle of thermoplye. I questioned everyone wife, kids, mother-in-law and my own parents to no avail. Subsequently I let it go placed the airborne back in Normandy and went on my merry way. About a week later it all happened again, this time I had some SS Germans fighting in the crusades. I was peed off so I set up a sting with a little surv. equipment. Around 0100hrs on Feb 10th 2009 I caught the perp on video. The subject went all out this time and was seen moving all my displays onto different levels of the curio cabinet. When the perp. was finished I was taunted, my WIFE was seen leaning in towards the camera with a little snicker on her face at which point she blew the camera a kiss and shut it off.

LOL I've noticed that happens to Louis sometimes after his friends have come over to play in his museum.

 

[Lewey Gun Vick]

The only thing I have relatively close is a prank my wife kept pulling on me. I always have my figures perfectly arranged by era on each of my curio cabinet shelves. Not to long ago I noticed some of my K&C WWII airborne fending off some conte spartans at the battle of thermoplye. I questioned everyone wife, kids, mother-in-law and my own parents to no avail. Subsequently I let it go placed the airborne back in Normandy and went on my merry way. About a week later it all happened again, this time I had some SS Germans fighting in the crusades. I was peed off so I set up a sting with a little surv. equipment. Around 0100hrs on Feb 10th 2009 I caught the perp on video. The subject went all out this time and was seen moving all my displays onto different levels of the curio cabinet. When the perp. was finished I was taunted, my WIFE was seen leaning in towards the camera with a little snicker on her face at which point she blew the camera a kiss and shut it off.

That's SHOCKING!!!!

Anyways backdrop fell over braking off a rifle barrel no worries, just used my salvaging skills to fix it. Also, my dogs decapitated a plastic G.I.'s head.

Vick

 

[kilted vampire]

I had a friend over who spent a good deal of time handling various weapons.

When he left I began cleaning them and putting them away. I did not notice

that he had flipped the safety off an H&K SB89 which discharged as I handled

it. The 9mm round (only one luckily) hit a group of Britians figures then

glanced off and got stuck in the shelf above them!

Wife quickly grabbed insurance policies and called travel agent......until I

emerged intact, with ears ringing!

Total casualties were light about a 1/2 dozen with only a couple a total loss.

Bullet now resides on desk as a reminder.

John, you win for most original toy soldier accident. I had an AD with a SA revolver put a round through the ceiling. Never shot any soldiers though. Liked the bit with the wifes' insurance and travel agent.

 

[Njja]

John, you win for most original toy soldier accident. I had an AD with a SA revolver put a round through the ceiling. Never shot any soldiers though. Liked the bit with the wifes' insurance and travel agent.

You should have seen the look on her face when I came downstairs!!

I thought I heard a "dam" as she hung up the phone!