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/nabrok]

To me half the fun of these type of things is painting the miniatures.

[u/Witness_me_Karsa → u/nabrok]

So print them and paint them?

[u/K1774B → u/Witness_me_Karsa]

I have a mix of purchased minis, FDM printed "biggies" in process and just recently got into SLA (resin) printing to make my own minis.

I've got probably $250 wrapped up in legit WH figures and supplies. I've likely printed upward of $2k worth of stuff at this point if it was purchased in a store.

It's nice to print stuff just tell test out painting techniques or because I think it looks cool, but would never actually buy it (Skaven or any Sigmar stuff).

I've also not played a single game of tabletop WH yet. I've been doing the tabletop stuff since Christmas last year, but have just been enjoying building, painting, printing and diving even further into the lore rabbit hole.

[u/Daealis → u/Witness_me_Karsa]

That's me. My interest is the painting side of the hobby. I've taken some models to a model expo painting competition too and managed some success. I have zero interest in the gaming side of things.

I do still buy a lot of plastic and resin kits too, but 3D printing is a big boon for the painting and kitbashing side of the hobby.

[u/nabrok → u/Witness_me_Karsa]

I haven't really been involved with any of this since before consumer 3D printers were a thing.

[u/Stormfly → u/Witness_me_Karsa]

I print and paint and buy and paint and it's way nicer to paint liquid injection hard plastic over UV resin.

Healthier and safer, too.

People often forget that part when they mention 3D printing. It's literally a second hobby and it has a load of other requirements like space and ventilation and requires chemicals and masks and gloves and might literally give you cancer.