KenM said:Three Words: Purple Worm fig.
Years ago, I was poking around on the miniatures shelves at my gaming store. They had a box of loose figs, from various packs that had come over from hanging on the pegs for a long time. These were lead figs, btw.
Among them were a bunch of segments for a purple worm figure, that some company (Grenadier maybe?) had made, on the theory that you would buy the 'head and tail' pack, and one or more 'segment' packs and assemble your own purple worm.
Apparently, someone had bought the supply of 'head and tail' packs, and left about six 'segment' packs to languish. I bought all the loose segments, and bought a 'head and tail' pack from the manufacturer.
Eventually, glued them all together and painted the purple worm appropriately. The critter is better than a foot long, and probably weighs 2 or 3 pounds.
Mostly, it sits on a shelf, gathering dust. However, it did lead to one memorable quote. A new player at my game is looking over my figure collection while the rest of us are eating dinner, and out of nowhere, he calls out, "You've got the biggest purple worm I've ever seen!"
Half a roll of paper towels later, from cleaning up all the spewed food and drink...
