Slitherine

Boo.

SO there I am, leaving my mates house with my 800 point Ilkhanid Mongol mongol army. I've just put in about 4 hours painting, to bring the current total effort to about 30 hours. My hands a re full, so I put the mongols on the roof of the car to get my keys.

Then I get in the car and drive off. Didn't even hear them drop. Didn't even know they'd gone until two days later when they weren't in the back of the car.

If anyone see a Mongol Horde charging down Ormskirk Avenue in Pemberton, you'll know why.

Gutted.

Oh man!

My heart bleeds for you.

Terry

I am really sorry to hear that...

Could you claim on your insurance? I made sure my wargames armies were part of the policy and when I told the insurance company how much I wanted them insured for they insisted on taking a look. After all nobody has tens of thousands of figures. My policy covers all my figures in the house and a smaller amount for when I take them out of the house.

OW! Not good. So sorry.

ouch. next time, drive a convertible

Oh man, I so so so feel for ya, bro

I actually did something very similar and possibly even dumber once. Certainly far more irresponsible.

I was going to the range one morning, and drove off like you did with my range bag sitting on the roof of the car. Now the contents of the range bag were mostly things like gloves, glasses, ear muffs, cheap hand-held spotting scope, etc. But there were also 100 rounds of hand-loaded .357 Magnum ammo in there, carefully packed in foam and high-impact plastic.

Unlike you I heard the range bag slide off the roof and down the back, I even saw it drop off the lid of the trunk as I glanced in the rearview! My thought was, "I'm sure glad modern primers are made with lead styphinate, that's not like the old fulminate of mercury..."

I whipped over to the side of the road and did the high-speed dash into the road after my bag, which had survived surprisingly intact. The scope was a write-off, of course, but nothing went boom. In a truly bizarre twist, the glass bottle of Hoppe's #9 powder solvent survived intact. Let's hear it for thick glass bottles~!

I hope your story ends as happily as mine did. May some Good Samaritan find your figures relatively intact and return them to you.

Horrific.

A buddy once had a couple boxes of figures stacked in his passenger seat sharp turn in an intersection to avoid another car and swoosh out the open passenger window went a box of figures hitting the payment, bursting open and scattering. So 10 minutes of dodging cars to pick up figures.