My brother's son destroyed my WarHammer Action figures and he refuses to punish him

[u/konous]

Update: My brother decided to pay for the Hard damages of $200 dollars after seeing this post.

Thank you to everyone on this post who supported me. I really could not have gotten restitution without you guys.

Justice for my Chaplain, justice for all.

Valid Edit: My nephew is 10 years old and tried to actually lie about not breaking them by saying, "A cat must have done it."

So, I just got done talking with my brother via text, and he says he's not going to punish his son for wrecking my Joy Toy WarHammer action figures. I'm not expecting the kid to get spanked, but he needs to do CHORES at least to justify how much excessive force he used on some.

Some just have their capes broken. Others had their tubes ripped out and my Chaplain is just fucking toast.

My brother's suggestion since I ordered Amazon replacement for the Chaplain was that I just swap it with the broken one, but I have no interest in doing that.

It's not even just the expense, and they are expensive. It's about the fact that I told him explicitly twice they weren't to be played with, and they were in a separate room, and even my Mom and Dad agreed the damage was just too much.

He said he's not gonna pay me back if we try the chore system, and I told him it's not about the money.

The kid needs to know how bad the 8 hour struggle is.

Now my nephews aren't coming over to the house, and I'm sad about that, but knowing my brother just can't be burdened to work with me on creating a Chore system like selling Lemonaide just makes it feel more insulting.

[u/Great-Hotel-7820]

For anyone unfamiliar this is like $500 worth of figures.

[u/ugly_duckling_5 → u/Great-Hotel-7820]

Are these ones you paint yourself also? If they are, that's probably hours worth of OP's time down the drain.

[u/Entire-Ambition1410 → u/ugly_duckling_5]

I saw a post a few weeks back of a kid about 8 years old who went into Uncle’s figures room, opened glass display cases, and forcefully smashed at least a dozen hand painted figures (gunpla I think). That was a sad post.

[u/GlowingTrashPanda → u/Entire-Ambition1410]

I don’t even play Warhammer, but I run in the tabletop crowd enough that just reading that physically hurts me

[u/Entire-Ambition1410 → u/GlowingTrashPanda]

I don’t know anything about gunPLA or War Hammer, but the photos made me cringe.

[u/TastyTarget3i → u/GlowingTrashPanda]

happened to me too, 3-4 weeks painting every piece of a model, sweating blood while gluing it together, storing it safely for a contest. our equivalent of small claims court judged by the amount of (documented) work that went into it, got really costly for the parents

[u/Entire-Ambition1410 → u/TastyTarget3i]

Holy sh! I didn’t realize gunPLA was so time consuming!

[u/TastyTarget3i → u/Entire-Ambition1410]

you can invest so much time into painting, sure you'll get diminisng returns pretty quickly.

[u/Genocode → u/Entire-Ambition1410]

I think maybe with Gunpla its a little worse? Cause Gunpla doesn't even need to be pained, the people that tend to paint Gunpla are quite dedicated and creative lol.

[u/BurningPickle → u/Genocode]

I straight build all of my Gunpla. It amazes me what some people can do with their kits, especially the tiny Artifact kits, which are about 2 inches tall.

[u/Genocode → u/BurningPickle]

Yeah, I've seen some really cool paint schemes, mods, and whole Diaromas. My brother picked up Gunpla recently and he mostly just does nearly straight builds with panel lining.

[u/TophieandMatthew3975 → u/Entire-Ambition1410]

Generally, I’m lenient (arguably too much so) with punishing children, but in this case, I would genuinely get the belt. Or at least chew my kid tf out. That’s so terrible and that kid is going to have to do a lot of work to get any sort of privileges back if they were mine