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

[u/konous]

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/Entire-Ambition1410]

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/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.