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I am also going to be captain obvious and guess the Warlord Titan.

Skitari tiny feet on rangers .....

Model easy. Feet on base tiny contact area

May glue legs first then body to thus secured legs...

For me, the metal thunderhawk was an absolute bitch to assemble.
Just because of having to pin every single damn part in several places.



Second is the forgeworld hierophant, as the legs need to be cut into sections, drilled and rods placed inside them to prevent the legs bending over time.


3rd is possibly the old landraider crusader, only because of the metal hurricane bolters.
Also we tied for 3rd is the metal thunderfire cannon.




That's mine anyway.

I fail to understand why so many people have such big issues with metal models. I've never had special trouble assembling them nor keeping them together - and no, I don't have any special magical glue for lead, it's just standard superglue.

Google metal thunderhawk gunship.


I've worked with metal models all my life and never had an issue, but this thing will test anyone lol.

 Korinov wrote:
I fail to understand why so many people have such big issues with metal models. I've never had special trouble assembling them nor keeping them together - and no, I don't have any special magical glue for lead, it's just standard superglue.

I don't have many problems with them, just every once in a while I get a model that for some reason every post washing, and scrubbing, superglue doesn't work with - e.g. a gel superglue turning to a watery consistency and not curing, its reacting to something.

Not just GW models, had a bunch of relics ones where every joint needed pinning, partly for the above reason and partly for terrible design of the models, tiny contact areas on heavy parts, had some Battlefront artillery that wouldn't go together with araldite either (ended up with low melt solder on them).

Prefer metal generally, when you paint in a hamfisted way the ability to just drop it in acetone and leave it for days and I have a new kit again.

Most problems are the design of the kits though, the oddball metals ones that have some sort of reaction to some glues, GW tend to be decent except the ones that are designed to be pinned they are not clear on, irritating stuff like WW2 tanks that have metal mudflats on a resin hull that are just designed to be knocked off.. over and over...

 Gitkikka wrote:
Zvezda orcs. Big figures - lots of tiny parts, including separate hands and weapons and sometimes feet. Plastic, but not HIPS. I have yet to assemble more than the one I put together back around 2009-ish.

OH man, Zvezda's entire Ring of Rule range was like that. Tons of fiddly pieces that needed to be assembled just so, and in the proper order, just to make a mediocre mini if all goes well.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Gitkikka wrote:
Zvezda orcs. Big figures - lots of tiny parts, including separate hands and weapons and sometimes feet. Plastic, but not HIPS. I have yet to assemble more than the one I put together back around 2009-ish.

OH man, Zvezda's entire Ring of Rule range was like that. Tons of fiddly pieces that needed to be assembled just so, and in the proper order, just to make a mediocre mini if all goes well.

Let me guess, you're totally in love with them, then?

Metal landraider crusader, I pinned the guns direct to the ammo boxes and drilled a pivot into the boxes.
NEVER build as directed, the ammo feeds are madness. Metal multimelta was worth ignoring and fitting a plastic one on.

Robotech RRT Veritechs with their all 3 modes, 20+ parts on barely a 2 inch tall model each. Never mind the decals.

Metal thunderfire cannon... I had to put it on a base to be sure it would hold together.

Original Revel X-wing model kit: fuselage warped, pilot looked like Michelin Man so lacking in detail... utter garbage.

The winner:

Eldar Guardians.
For your normal troops, 11 parts including base... really?
Fiddly tiny parts, Marines seem fun in comparison.

As I'm working with them now...WHFB/AoS plastic Empire Flagellants. Fiddly isn't the word. The word I'd use would have the MOD's on my case, so I choose discretion as the better part of valor. Previous metal Flagellants were one piece, glue the tab right in to the base and rank 'em up. Sure there weren't any cool detail bits and conversions were nigh impossible, but these puppies are trying my patience.

Funny I love the Flagellents.

The most recent one I had problem with were the Electro Priests. Now I've been waiting for my Lighting Lad Bruce Lee Kung Fu Shaolin Jedi Monks since they were first mentioned in what... 1994?

After getting to the 3rd one and trying to put the little electrodes on his wrist I gave up. Ended up trading them away.

I might try and make some of my own.

Maybe out of the Flagellent kit

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Gitkikka wrote:
Zvezda orcs. Big figures - lots of tiny parts, including separate hands and weapons and sometimes feet. Plastic, but not HIPS. I have yet to assemble more than the one I put together back around 2009-ish.

OH man, Zvezda's entire Ring of Rule range was like that. Tons of fiddly pieces that needed to be assembled just so, and in the proper order, just to make a mediocre mini if all goes well.

Let me guess, you're totally in love with them, then?

Another smart remark like that and I'll ship them all to you.


If I could. I'm pretty sure the only way ever to get rid of them permanently is to bake them into a pie and serve them to someone you love. Cruel, cruel Zvezda.

The Warlord Games plastic puma. Jesus Christ that thing is fiddly to put together. You have to assemble the entire suspension system out of thin, plastic pieces in the exact order or else it won't go together right. And if you are off by even a millimeter when gluing it on the vehicle won't sit evenly. The hull pieces refuse to weld together properly and you need to glue on tiny headlights and small, thin antennae. There are parts where if you are not careful with removing excess plastic you can easily cut off half the part. It looks nice in the end but... damn, I would not recommend it to a beginner modeller.

SoB Exorcist, only model I ever gave up on and dumped into a drawer to never see the light of day again.

What, no mention for the old metal Bloodthirster yet? Had to pin pretty much everything and multiple pins to hold some parts due to the weight - I'm looking at you wings! Had to buy a Dremel to grind the nubs on the back down enough so they would fit the socket on the wings only to find out that no superglue or two part epoxy would ever be able to hold their weight. Ended up grinding the nubs completely flat and using multiple pins. I don't know where that Bloodthirster is now, but I do know that he is still in one piece! If it hadn't been my son's model I probably never would have finished it.

With my new found confidence after completing the Bloodthirster I decided to revisit the metal Killa Kan I had given up on many months previously. What a mistake that was. Don't think I had to use the dremel but it did require multiple pins, pliers and help from a vice to get the body halves to line up and stay together.

Most fiddly everyday model has to be infantry with two handed guns such as guardians and tactical marines. Where you have three contact points to line up and glue at the same time. Fiddly to line up and you can't see if everything is properly in place while you are holding it waiting for it to set. You only find out that you attached the shoulder to the ribs when it has partially welded and you dare to move your fingers.

Man... I do love me some metal, but last month I was reminded that I love ONE PIECE METAL MODELS.

Anything else better be plastic.

Thankfully for everyone else my two most fiddly models are oop the metal tomb scorpion all those little legs with minor contact and the metal scrap launcher from ogres you need about 4 hands and 2 tweezers to put that thing together. And an mention must go to the metal black coach as you try to hold 3 sides a top (covered in spikes) and a base with wheels all at the same time.

This miniature:



feth this miniature.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
The Warlord Games plastic puma. Jesus Christ that thing is fiddly to put together. You have to assemble the entire suspension system out of thin, plastic pieces in the exact order or else it won't go together right. And if you are off by even a millimeter when gluing it on the vehicle won't sit evenly. The hull pieces refuse to weld together properly and you need to glue on tiny headlights and small, thin antennae. There are parts where if you are not careful with removing excess plastic you can easily cut off half the part. It looks nice in the end but... damn, I would not recommend it to a beginner modeller.

Glad I got the old resin one then. That was a piece of the proverbial.

Metal Thirster reminded me of the metal Tzeentch. I literally gave up, hes still in pieces under my bed somewhere :(

 Ratius wrote:
Metal Thirster reminded me of the metal Tzeentch. I literally gave up, hes still in pieces under my bed somewhere :(

Gah! The wings were the pain with that one.
I had to bend them higher up so I could get a tiny bit more balance out of the thing.
Then I think I used 1/16" brass rod and drilled in about a 1/2" into the wing and back.
First time I used a hammer to insert rod.
Then wads of green stuff... just to be sure and to deal with some slight gaps due to all the bending.

Oooo, also the always "fun" Unseen Marauder II. Arglebarglearglinfdpgjhergdgdr

My battlewagon. One side of the chassis went together easily, the other side wouldn't stick. I ended up using 1/2 bottle of Testors plastic cement just to get the chassis together.

The most fiddly model(s) I've ever built were the Warjacks from the Retribution of Scyrah Battlegroup. There are pretty much no instructions on the box as to how to build them that I can see, and each one comes in so many friggin' parts. I've had that box for half a year now, and the only thing I've built from it was the Warcaster

Wargaming would have to be some infinity guys, trying to line arms up with the use of super glue not fun.

The other one was my Thunderhawk the wings are nearly a kilo but have a tiny surface area to stick on.

My old man is building a scale model 432 tank, it has 400 resin track links that need to be drilled and pinned together with brass rod! Looks one hell of a ball ache, but he is an engineer and loving it lol

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Funny I love the Flagellents.

The most recent one I had problem with were the Electro Priests. Now I've been waiting for my Lighting Lad Bruce Lee Kung Fu Shaolin Jedi Monks since they were first mentioned in what... 1994?

After getting to the 3rd one and trying to put the little electrodes on his wrist I gave up. Ended up trading them away.

I might try and make some of my own.

Maybe out of the Flagellent kit

I know right? Electro priests are just fiddly pain. I just gave up on those wrist and neck things. Now they are quite easy to assemble

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
This miniature:

Spoiler:

feth this miniature.

I'm morbidly curious, HBMC:

a, What is it (other than some sort of walker)?
b, What was the nature of your disagreement with it?

 Dysartes wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
This miniature:

Spoiler:

feth this miniature.

I'm morbidly curious, HBMC:

a, What is it (other than some sort of walker)?
b, What was the nature of your disagreement with it?

Looks like a battle mech and being from battletech, is probably only a little taller than a space marine, all metal, and given all the weapons and spindly limbs, probably a lot of pieces that are hell to put together

Metal Hellcannon.

 Korinov wrote:
I fail to understand why so many people have such big issues with metal models. I've never had special trouble assembling them nor keeping them together - and no, I don't have any special magical glue for lead, it's just standard superglue.

Go find and build a metal scrap launcher and you will understand completely.

Lots of metal parts which can be warped and deformed, not fitting together the way they need to ideally do, can't be reshaped as easily as plastic, and puts more stress on what can be fragile glue bonds with small contact points, which can be a big problem when you have to put pressure on one part to try and get another to fit correctly.

One of the reasons why the metal/plastic GW kits were so reviled, especially the devastator marines. When everything's plastic, it's much easier to work with the model to over come deficiencies in the parts.