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Stupid Tomb Scorpion miniature. I glued the legs they came apart. GS and then glued the legs, they came apart. I would pin them but the leg is so fragile looking that it gives me the creeps.

M.

Calgar and honour guard.

if you don't get it right the first time?

tough... you will never get their arms to stay on.

Miguelsan wrote:Stupid Tomb Scorpion miniature. I glued the legs they came apart. GS and then glued the legs, they came apart. I would pin them but the leg is so fragile looking that it gives me the creeps.

M.

I think I have to agree here too lol. I built one and have a second to assemble but I would rather stab myself in the eye with a hot french fry than build the second so the second one is just a 50m base that runs around with an arrow painted on it to show the front lmao.

<bangs head on modeling table>

Maybe I can make the pain go away...

TOMB spider is made of fail, but then, most of the multipart all metal minis are a challenge.

I'd like to ad Samael to the list, the all metal jetbike is a big challenge to get lined up, its close, but that doesn't cut it. The front hull with the eagle, and bilaterally divided prow ram and jetbike understructure just doesnt line up and there are no pins or keys or mount brackets or stubs or anything, just flush joins. Yikes...

Augustus wrote:TOMB spider is made of fail, but then, most of the multipart all metal minis are a challenge.

I'd like to ad Samael to the list, the all metal jetbike is a big challenge to get lined up, its close, but that doesn't cut it. The front hull with the eagle, and bilaterally divided prow ram and jetbike understructure just doesnt line up and there are no pins or keys or mount brackets or stubs or anything, just flush joins. Yikes...

Lol, I'm 80% of the way through putting mine together right now, and feth me is that model annoying as hell. I think it's just me hating on metal models though, its plastic or bust for me. The prow ram...makes no sense to me. when I put the pieces on they rocked a fair bit, and i couldnt figure out if i should rock them up for a wider ram, or down for a narrower one. Neither seemed like the proper fit, and the whole thing just annoyed the crap out of me. I never glued the eagle on, my army is Fallen Angels so I scrapped the "raven" from ravenwing and have used more angel iconography instead. I replaced the eagle with the standing angel from the RW upgrade sprue (the one shown in the sammael-speeder conversion). Snipped the wings off, and the legs. Greenstuffed the raven wings to his shoulders, and a new lower body for him. Looks badass.

I also hate that sammaels head wasn't removable. I haaaaaaaate bareheaded marines with a passion. Especially sammael, i mean the man's immune to instead death, why the feth is he running around with nothing to protect his noggin? A stray bullet to the face and there goes 205 points. Took me an hour with clippers, a drill, and a now-tipped hobby knife to get that thing out of there. His sword is also way too thin and flimsy. I also wish they'd made his attachment to the flying stand better. That sucker is heavy when he's put together, i'm going to have to pin him to that stupid little stand...



I haven't come across many models I've totally hated recently though. I hear you guys on the metal crusader bits though, what a pain. From my oooooooold (4th ed) chaos warriors army, I had the chariot which was a bitch to put together. The riders just wouldn't physically fit inside. Also the old bloodthirster model was a pain, as the arms were all so spindly it was so frustrating to pin.

4th ed Archaon was also an absolutely abysmall model. fether is like 800 points, and the best they can come up with is some pansy on a regular sized horse who looks more poorly armoured and pansier than the stock lord model? Absolutely pathetic...
The old chaos dragon was a bitch too. I remember coming inside after I'd finally gotten him glued, and the front of my hair was literally white from super glue residue (i shudder to think of how many brain cells that killed...)

It also really bothers me that SM bikes don't come with a proper base. The base they're supplied with they simply do not fit on, and that I'm legally not allowed to stick them on something different is insulting. Give me a real base for them, and don't make me rely on some "cut up two different types of bases perfectly for each fething biker" tripe like they posted on their site...not to mention that those aren't legal bases...

Know what I hate? Dragon Ogres.

Take a good look at the artwork in the WoC book. It's bloody amazing and screams 'doom incarnate'. Look at the models, and they look horrible. Their faces and six-packs are just lots of plastic blobs pressed into place, and their dragon legs are really feeble and thin. They wouldn't hold them up.

thats why i field dragon ogre shaggoths instead.