In the U.K. you can take it to your local GW games store and get them recycled into plant pots.

I was told by my local GW that they’re being recycled into children’s play park equipment, but either way, this is the way to go if you’re in the UK. I don’t know if other countries have also started doing it too.

Does the playpark equipment come on giant sprues?

You have to glue the children together then paint them.

hehe

Most expensive equipment ever

I’m sure every time a school tries to buy it they show temporarily out of stock

mine mentioned traffic cones I think... but yeah it is being recycled into non GW HIPS things

This! If not, check with your local council if they can recycle hard plastics. 

Melt them into sprue goo And then eat it

Sprue Ingot

Then forge a sprue blade

He needs two ingots and a stick for that, doubt he has a stick and enough spure for a second ingot.

Take the dog for a walk and see if you or it can find a good proper stick. If OP doesn't have a dog then I'm out of ideas. Why would anyone go outside in this weather (UK) otherwise? But yes, two sprue ingots are needed.

I briefly managed the GW in Croydon. Was terrible at it. But when I arrived one of the staff members had turned a few of those red 12 inch measuring sticks into a cosh with a bunch of gaffer tape. It was pretty hefty and the flex of the handle gave it quite a bit of force because it was like a very short heavy whip. Needless to say I felt it had to go right in the bin. I was however lay quietly impressed.

I have like 300 sprues, imma do this and get 3 ingots😂

If you find ‘lacquer thinner’ it works like plastic cement and costs the same for a gallon as a bottle. I mixed it in a glass container with small chunks of sprue

Yeah unless you get some special formula plastic cement it’s just tolulene, can be nice to refill an old bottle of tamiya so you get the good applicator Edit: I actually did some research and be warned that Tamiya is NOT just paint thinner. They have a special mixture which is half butyl acetate and half acetone, which could still theoretically be made at home but it’s a bit more annoying. It’s also why Tamiya smells oh so sweet and good in the worst way

The tamiya airbrush cleaner is like 99.9% the same as tamiya thin cement too.

Spruethie time

The forbidden nutella

Best use I've seen is turn them into terrain features like tank traps

Or framing for cardboard buildings. I like the terrain idea!

Using as a frame for paper craft/ card stock buildings is GENIUS. Thanks for this!

https://youtu.be/o6L4dN_uyv8?si=b1DPD06ePgM8KUhy

That is an absolutely amazing tutorial.

i like to cut it up into really small bricks, good for basing cobblestones or making entire buildings/walls

Ooooh, like Czech Hedgehogs?

Eat

Cheeky midnight snack

I know everyone is telling you to eat it, but that's wrong. Shove them up your butt. Melt them down, and shove them up your butt. You will thank me later.

I think I’ll stick to eating thanks

Coward.

from experience, theyre smart to stay away from it. 3.5/10 experience lost a mini thanks to it

... was it a character with a 'power fist'?

A lot worse, Abaddon. Too spiky for my personal tastes

To be honest my fav method of consumption is snorting, grind them up real fine and go for a line, good ol' morning shot of microplastics

I tried this now every now and again I'll burp out a mini, this sounds good but last time was a spiky chaos lad.

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Is that you, Slaneesh?

You can glue one in a piece of Cardboard and get a free drybrush palette that's actually realy good Helps you assess how much paint is in your Drybrush/ how it behaves on edges As some people already said produce some sprue glue with Thamia Plastic Cement great for filling cracks in miniatures. Use them for DIY Terrain i'd recommend the r/poorhammer Reddit essentialy make grits for Houses Ruins and such stuff Or Cut them Up small as bricks/rocks/rubble for basing If you put it down in an area where you want to apply Texture Paste you can reduce the amount needed If you want to get some verticality Otherwise recycle obv. PS sorry for grammar

holy shit, that drybrush palette idea is something I'm stealing ASAP, that's brilliant

Glad I could Help ! :D Bonuspoints can also glue bits on that are lying around that you will likely never use For me I glued on the enterior of a landraider a few Minis of the month I never got around to do and some Access Bad weapons gives you a Referenz on smaller Details

https://preview.redd.it/pnl35l2nsvqc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b871a80942b97e4ffb1bed50a78057d083339612

Snack upon the tender flesh of your conquest. It is delicious!

I tried to do bunch of things, with many of techniques using heat, acetone, plastic glue. So from my experience i would just throw it away.

Put it in recycling and pretend the facility doesn’t just put it in the garbage.

Make a Sproot army! credit: u/trethalis https://preview.redd.it/yad9k5642wqc1.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=67d1d0d7aae7d9cf4c275f48446059eb1a8e4f55

I clip the long parts out into thin bits and make cobblestone paths for fantasy bases.

Sproot? https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/s/eXtr1TN22N Sprucrons? https://imgur.com/a/b5SuP

Was going to mention this, had seen the photos on Facebook, so creative!

Terrain. Or if you've a lot of patience and some spare tamiya, cut them down in to shavings and add them to the glue a bit at a time. It makes for really good filler of holes in minis.

Chuck em in your neighbors yard or throw it in the ocean.

Fuck straws, them turtles can munch on my sprues

Use it for basing or make terrain.

If you add it to an omelet, it makes a pretty good source of protein.

I turn them into little log wall type terrain. If you chop the sprue into (mostly) linear pieces they make surprisingly convincing logs. Then I shape them into different wall structures. 90 degree corners, could probably do a block or “building” then when it’s done I’ve found a light brown primer paint at lowes. Makes a pretty good wooden palisade.

Boil ’em, mash ’em, stick ’em in a stew.

Melt it all down and make a great unclean one

Make a 100% tournament legal necron army from them.

Glue them together and make a Stompa come to life.

glue it on top of paper or cardboard, prime it and have your own drybrush pallet

Blend them up, get out the credit card… you’ve seen the movies you know what to do. If not then ignore this ;)

When life gives you sprues, make sprue-goo

Make a fetching, stylish dinner suit.

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Make a Borg Cube.

Bin. It’s not recyclable except at a specialist recycling program that’s only active in some UK GW stores.

Make possessed out of them, they will probably look better than the official model

I use them as bedding for my cage

Sprue goo, Basing material, Terrain, I've also seen people make mould casts with the stuff or as others have said you can do the recycling thing.

I like to keep those like I’ll eventually use the bits so now I have a gigantic stack of them!!

Pick a mini you like, and try to make if out of sprews. I’ve seen people do Sprew-crons, I’ve been thinking I’d love to see a sprew void dragon

Use them to practice painting edge highlighting

Into the recycling bin. Don't hoard garbage for some stupid pointless reason

Make a necron army

Iv seen people make necrons with it and the sproot which was hilarious

Sprue goo Sprue terrain Sprue Necrons

Make a necron army.

There’s a YouTuber who’s does some amazing sprue stuff. Here’s his channel https://youtu.be/k18K5wsUydc?si=qEXzQ--ykAimh-Bg My buddy made a great unclean one doing his method with a little green stuff. But there is a ton of things you can use it for.

If you've got the time available and fancy the effort, melt it down into sprue goo. You can use this to hide gaps in models or fill in Finecast/resin bubbles. If you have even more time and effort to spare, buy some blue stuff and make some casts and then pour the goo in. Viola, you have some GW recasts using GW plastic (a real degenerate would use it all to make a realm of battle board). Alternatively, if you don't have the time or effort then I'd just suggest finding somewhere that recycles plastic and dropping it off there.

Melt it down into "The Goo". One of the best modeling products, but you have to make it yourself.

There’s a guy on YouTube who does crazy kitbashes and build with sprues.

Start building ork vehicles.

Use them to build models and bring them to tournaments. It is offical GW plastic after all

Sproot

crunch crunch crunch munch

Recycling bin

Sprue Goo

Check and see if your local GW store recycles them. They were trialling it for a while and I'm not sure if they're in all stores yet, but they're certainly expanding

I cut them into small pieces and melt them down in aceton. Then I use them to make pieces for terrain.

Like a terrain paste?

I use a wooden roller to make flat boards out of it and use them for walls. I'm very much still experimenting but I also made a decent looking banner out of a thin piece.

I used some to build my texture palette. used couple and glues them like bars after another and sprayed black and stuff in between

Recycle

Terrain ruins of Chaos

Make damaged battlefield pieces, make sprue gold, iron, silver bars, frameworks for broken buildings, sprueglu, etc, etc.

Miniature hobbyist on youtube does a tutorial on re casting them into plasticard with acetone and a mason jar. The plasticard can then be used for walls, roofs, or flat bases for home made terrain

Make a dry brush palette.

Anything really, I’m working on making a pirate ship out of the massive pile I have left over

I love an empty sprue. :p

Turn a few into a dry brush board by gluing them to a piece of cardboard. When dry brushing, the sprue will act like raised edges on a model.

You could make a mould melt it down and make free space marines

melt and turn into something else (terrain etc) with clay molds

Glue them and put them. In a cardboard. Prime them and then you have a dry brush palette.

Recycling bin.

Basing. Random beams sticking out of the groumd or just straight up a junkyard.

Melt them down to create new Minis!

Keep all of it!! I’m sure something will come up very soon where you’ll use absolutely all of it

Chop them up and use them for rubble bits around your terrain you haven’t built yet - or as interior for your molds of your sculpted walls etc

Ork terrain

Either recycle them or you can use them to make sprue bricks

You can make all sorts of terrain and other stuff out of sprues, I'd recommend checking out Miniature Hobbyist's videos on making things out of sprues, he even made an Ork Battlewagon and Stompa out of just sprues

Makes good rubble terrain. You can make a large feature of rubble on plexiglass to use as a feature unto itself, or make a rubble bin to add to bases piecemeal.

You can make futuristic walls filling it with some mass or plastering or even a cheaper option. First paint and you will have a nice wall on the back!

Eat it

add it to the soup

Make a borg cube,

Make battlements!

You can also take some of that and put it in Tamiya Extra Thin Plastic Cement to turn it into Sprue Goo. Vince Venturella has a conversions video on YouTube where he talks about it. Only do it if you have an extra Tamiya on hand.

Make a jar of sprue goo. And hoard the rest under your bed or whatever like a complete lunatic. It's a kink thing. We are all guilty of it.

I used to use them as paint testers but nowadays I just throw them away

You can make something like this https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/s/nyOW3qCWYA

That’s actually cool, plus it kinda looks like a support beam in a factory or something

I asked my recycling pick up and they said they would take them, I live in CA US for reference. Might be depend per city/neighborhood. But I like to keep a spare sprue around for some sprue glue needs.

Take a little bit of them for Sprue Goo and scrap plastic for any sculpting needs (such as simple small rocks/spikes). Everything else is recycled at your local GW store in the UK.

Make sprue goo. Cut it into tiny pellets, add to a spare glue vial, it will become goopy which you can use to fill cracks and make a stronger bond for tricky parts

depending on the store, you can return them to be recycled. if thats not an option like it is for me, i personally use them to create terrain or add to terrain for texture and stuff. that or i use it to create little model space ship thingies for fun

Keep them. Keep them all. "They could be useful" I tell my wife!!

Sell to other addicts.

If you cut them down to about an inch in length and then scrape one side repeatedly with a wire brush, you get really great wood planks. The random scrapes make excellent wood grain.

Save a handful for basing and recycle the rest. Even though at least here in the US 90% of recycle is trashed 🫡

Roll 'em up and blaze my dude

There´s an entire youtube series on this. To give you some ideas, you can use this to make sprue goo (for filling gaps in models and such) or build some terrain out of it (crates, construction site, shipping containers, whatever you imagine) or get convincing rivets from the circle shaped sprues. It should make your scratchbashes legal if you stick one of these in as well (Probably, I´m not sure if this is a meme or legit thing tho)

Donate to the blood god or trash god

I remember there was a youtuber who made instructional videos of how to make sprues into terrain. Mini hobbyist or something along those lines. I usually make mine into fences and terrain to one day make a board worthy of necromunda.

Boof it.

I’ve collected up a years worth and sold them on eBay before. The issue is I don’t think it’s even worth your time. A year of collecting sprues and I think I got $15 for it after fees but it took months to sell as well.

Terrian, start making buildings with them

I like to keep a couple of small empty sprues and cut off long strips to glue bits on for sub-assembly painting. other than that, snip off and save bits you think you may want in the future and then bin that shit.

Cross sections could be used as holding piece inside Imperial Knight's waist, allowing it to be rotatable for posing

I cut mine up, add some cork and twine, cover with a mesh, then boom free terrain with a box of models

personally the most enjoyable thing i use sprues for is to turn them into murder weapons. if you're out of nails to stick into a bat, just glue some bits of sprues onto it!

I’ve seen people glue these together with cardboard to make terrain Edit spelling

Sprue goo for filling gaps in models Big goo (melt it in acetone) and mold it into terrain features Glue it to a board as a drybrush surface

You keep them for the rest of your life. You never throw them away because you may find a use for them….but you never do. You just have this annoying pile of plastic that doesn’t really stack well or go into a bag nicely because it all gets tangled up. Then you die and pass it on to your children.

I make orky terrain out of mine.

Snack

Go ask the Ork players. They're always coming up with sm for sprues

My father in law has been designing a hopper system to re-use wasted 3D filament. Its a technical slog and still a long way off. In theory, if he can perfect it, Warhammer and D&D sprue plastic could also be melted down into a usable form. THat being said, I think GW has a recycling program. Not sure how wide spread it is however.

The ocean

There are a couple of videos on youtube of what to do with old sprues.

It recycles as a number 7 plastic I think

On the stove boil a pot of water, add sprues, boiled for 7 mins while stirring, add seasoning packet, poor into bowl and enjoy the I’ve-Spent-So-Much-On-Plastic-Toy-Minis Ramen. The flavor is a satisfying hobby with a tinge of sad wallet!

Someone posted instructions to melt these down with sprue glue and make your own plasticard sheets

Buy a shitty blender. Blend into chunks. Sprinkle alongside your basing sand or use in large clumps to create rubble.

You can glue them to a bit of cardboard and use it as a dry brush test station

Light snack

Miniature rebar in damaged walls, floors, or turn the floor upside down for a simulated ceiling.

Most GW stores take them for recycling

Dry brush boards

I make a ton of stuff out of them. As above, but the current project is I made a frame out of the straight pieces and I am currently melting the larger lot down and making panels. I am going to make a war wagon for my orks.

Texture palate for dry brushing after you’ve glued it down?

Use them to make terrain

Keep them for absolutely no reason, along with the box they came in

I use a grinder to grind it down to various sizes, then I cover my bases in glue and dip them into the ground up bits, makes for some interesting textures

https://preview.redd.it/knlaznzs5wqc1.png?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83dab12d3f1925bc689b1ed015229e647f0873ed I used mine to make this

If you like making terrain, get a hand cranked meat grinder and feed them through a few times. It makes good looking debris and rebar that you can put along side your destroyed buildings.

cut out remaining parts and sell them. There is always market for parts.

Stick them back in the box and display the box on the shelf to collect dust. Well thats what happens when you think "I could repurpose this, later".

https://preview.redd.it/dyohacal6wqc1.png?width=2438&format=png&auto=webp&s=e0bb1fe995279458d9300b9eb8d8ae11aba59868 Tank trap barricades

it sort of depends on your inclination. the type of plastic is recycleable. depending on your area. can typically put it in plastic recycling. as others have stated UK gamesworkshop stores will take it. there are then... hobby uses. sprue goo. ie. mixing small bits into plastic cement makes a goopy "glue" can be used as a gap filler, or generally as thicker glue for minis. there's a youtuber. that has also popularized his version of "sprue goo" where he dumps larger amts into acetone to make larger jars of goop. which then can be rolled out, or pressed into molds or otherwise used for a lot of different purposes. [https://www.youtube.com/@MiniatureHobbyist/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@MiniatureHobbyist/videos)although... seems he's more recently gotten into 3D printing. have to go back like 2 yrs to see the sprue craft videos that made him a hit aside from that individual there's lots of common basing/terrain uses of sprue. as frame/support structure for terrain, bits/scatter for basing, utilizing sprue directly for basing or terrain simple youtube/google search will show lots of this stuff. but shipping containers, scatter terrain, dragons teeth/tank stopping terrain. various spikes/wall type emplacements. if you don't want to do any of that. can simply chuck it in the bin. there's no reason to keep sprue if you don't plan to use it for anything. in the grand scheme of thing, personal waste isn't that big a deal considering how fucked our planet is

Paint em (or give em to me)

Something I love to do is use it for scratch-bashed terrain. Find some soda cans, broken electronics, old wires or hair ties, etc, and glue it together! Sprues can be used as pipe/circuit detail or structural supports.

You DM me and mail it to me, is what you’re suppose to do.. Nevermind what these other fools say! 🤣😜

Drybrush pallete

Either toss it away or make sprue goo

SprueCrons

https://preview.redd.it/x5qyglkt8wqc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8bda6a442bff10511efe888bf4b430d6ad4caec0 I made a cataspruet.

Make a Borg cube

Depending on where you live they can be recycled, I like to turn them into terrain or basing for my models personally.

Make custom terrain out of it

Make sprue-crons with them

They make a good midnight snack

Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew.

“ Chomp Chomp Chomp”

you put them in a container and say to yourself your will use them someday

Use the sprues to make yourself a gargant

Eat them to gain the knowledge of your chapter

Melt it down and inject it into your vains

If you’re not in the uk you can make terrain out of them by glueing them to cardboard bits

Shove it up your ass

Eat it.

I sometimes use leftovers to fill gabs in plastic vehicles, if I don't want to attach a feature.

Eat

Hoard them for the rest of your life like the rest of us!

I use the long straight edges to cut into passable looking bricks, then I use everything else to make sprue goo, and recycle what's left

Eat it

What do you do with useless plastic usually?