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The Drop Pod. Dear god was that a PITA in the ass to get right.. it's the harnesses that really killed me. And then I had to cut some tubing out to make the top fit on the bottom. Now one of the doors won't stay up!

 DarknessEternal wrote:
Still the metal landspeeder. What you really got in the box was a several lumps of ill-fitting, vaguely landspeeder-shaped chunks of metal from which you had to carve and forge actual landspeeder.

You youngn's with your complaints about finecast are amusing.

Why did you have to enter that last sentence?

Now I feel compelled to write "but at least you didn't get any characters wearing mittens, or with bingo wings, or with parts of their faces slewn off"

My roomate struggle with the huge old FW fortress as the instructions that came with were just distanced pictures of the final product, none of the pieces fitted just right and there was no indications in the crappy instructions of what connected were. It weighed a metric ton and took up the entire dinning table for 2 weeks till he moved it.

finecast daemon princes of nurgle.

They just fall to pieces.

And why the hell GW skeletons need to fit together in the middle of the spine defeats me.

Worst model ever was the metal bretonian trebuchet, you needed hulk strength to bend it to shape but it was just spikey enough to cause injury then after it was all together it would fall apart if you gave it a sideways glance..... In 40k the old metal ork dredds, the legs would constantly break ended up just taking them off and mounted my dredds on wartrak platforms

Recently watched my dad put together his first squad of Kroot.

After the third bout of swearing he chucked the half-built model on his desk, grabbed some Victorian-aged native spearmen and told me he was using those instead.

Kroot are not hard to build.
But they are spiky, like really spiky.
Several of my kroot hav blood on them

Metal bloodthirster with several long pins (wings, arms, weapons, head, feet) and is currently being held together by my sheer willpower and luck.

Though what does following behind at a close second was the Mercenary Galleon. The amount of greenstuffing required to fill the gaps between the chassis and exhaust was...well exhaustive. That and the knee and foot on the right leg have to be touching each other in order for the model to keep its balanced for some reason.

This thing. Possibly the WORST moulding I have ever seen. the 2 Hull pieces never matched up. Yuck.

You are smoking crack if you answered anything besides thunderfire cannon

The metal Hive Tyrant (the one that was Finecasted and then made into a plastic kit). That. Kit. Is. Horrible.

2nd edition landspeeder, or any infinity model I've ever built.

metal Keeper of Secrets sob would stay together or metal hurican bolters for landraider

IG grenade launcher guys... Near impossible to drill out barrel, and gak fit between the left arm and launcher (both IG special weapons left arms)

 akira5665 wrote:


This thing. Possibly the WORST moulding I have ever seen. the 2 Hull pieces never matched up. Yuck.

Amen to that. I kind of wish they'd put it back out in plastic or finecast, but building that pile of crap was very mentally straining as a metal. Can't imagine doing it again. At least then it wouldn't fall apart under its own weight though.

The old Chimeras and Leman Russes. Those damn wheels on the tracks were annoying as all hell and the tracks just would not line up. Thankfully I will never have to see one of those kits again because we have a newer, easier to assemble kit.

Right now, the Dreamforge Leviathan. For very specific reasons. It's not a bad model by any means, in fact it's a well-engineered kit that requires a LOT of planning to build, and as it happens, I made a mistake that's impossible to correct. There's two ball-and-socket joins at both ends of the spine, and as chance would have it, these need to be *incredibly* tight to stop the entire model from lopping to one side when the right arm is mounted (the arm is THAT heavy). And if you don't tighten them enough while building, there's no way to do it later, because the requisite parts will be buried inside the torso.

The only way I can fix mine will be to saw off the mounting pegs at both ends of the spine, drill holes for metal rods that go through the balls and sockets, immobilizing the spine entire. Added to this the two pistons in the chest cavity, which fall off the top mounting at the slightest provocation. The entire kit is over-engineered by someone who clearly though they were being awfully clever.

It was a very expensive kit that I looked forward to for months, and now it's packed away in a box on top of my bookshelf, unlikely to ever come down.

See this thing?



(Spoilered for le huge image)

My dad got one for me when they first came out way back in the '80s. Pure lead and super heavy. As this was around the beginning of my wargaming and modelling carreer, neither of us knew too much about fancy stuff like pinning. Slowly and with much cursing, we managed to use a two-part epoxy to get the head, arm, hand and leg on.

But oh god, the wings.

They were HUGE and thick and we just couldn't get them to stay on at all. It wasn't until we looked at the crappy line drawing of the model included in the box that we realized that they wanted the builder to drill a hole in the lower foot, stick a metal rod in it and then drill another hole in the treasure pile to give the model the illusion of coming in for a landing. While this was clearly in the "Oh, HELL no!" category, it gave us the idea to try to use the metal rod to keep the wings on. (Yes, that was the exact moment Dad and I learned the magic of pinning metal models.) Happy ending, right?

Hahahaha! No.

Remember the HUGE and heavy wings? Made of soft lead? Damn things eventually bent under their own weight and broke next to the join. Broke my heart, too. It still haunts me as one of the few models that beat me.

Maybe one day, I'll tell you all about the joys of Ral Partha's Throne of Bone.

The Tanks... God Emperor the tanks!

all tanks, I hate them with their self important little tracks!

love the look and the play style of vehicles but hate to model, and paint them!

give me an Infantry squad any day!


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 TheCustomLime wrote:
The Drop Pod. Dear god was that a PITA in the ass to get right.. it's the harnesses that really killed me. And then I had to cut some tubing out to make the top fit on the bottom. Now one of the doors won't stay up!

Seconded

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
The metal Balrog wasn't a lot of fun. Some of the older citadel miniatures, large things like dragons and the like were a poor fit, but the for a more recent release the Balrog was a shocking fit. The ringwaiths on fell beasts apparently aren't much better.

I could never work out how the old metal beast of nurgle went together, the body came in three pieces. The back two made the two halves of the body, but the front piece seemed far far too wide to fit onto this. Packed in a lot of milliput, never worked out how it was supposed to be assembled.

See the second image on this page in particular, they've also failed to make any sense of this.
http://store.wargamingtrader.com/item/n283ws

I take it you're referring to the modern incarnation of the Balrog, i.e. the Peter Jackson version? Try the 1980s version from the 'Encounter at Khazad Dum' box set. One of my first GW purchases and a lovely model when completed - apparently. I just never got that far. Even after countless tubes of Epoxy glue (Araldite), gallons of superglue and modelling clay to support the joints while the glue set it refused to stay stuck on any of the parts, especially the amazingly weighty wings... Ended up trading for a Wood Elf Dragon masters set - already painted and assembled. I didn't even have a WE army and no intention to start, just had to get rid of the damned Balrog.

Many years later I truly regret parting with the model as I know that pinning would have solved the issues... The benefit of hindsight and experience I do though still have the dragon, albeit stripped of paint and disassembled, one day it will find it's way onto eBay or the swap shop...

How awesome is the artwork on the cover of that box that Gitkikka posted?

Hey Fellas,
The Drop pod is a fine example of why CG rendering should be applied only on the drawing board.
The doors dont stay open because the brainiac who designed it on the computer had no real world experience.
That is to say , he isnt a carpenter.
The doors wont stay shut because they need to be trimmed down at the hinges. The door on your home is not a perfectly square shape. The edges of your door are slightly angled in. This allows the door to clear the frame and fit snugly.
Trim your doors on the bottom lip and trim the floor where the door touches. Then glue it togther.
And the harnesses....
The clown who rendered it didnt bother inverting the image of the harness when it wraps around the center column.
Start with the image as it is positioned on the right side of the column.

As far as the worst fig to put together...

Without a doubt the Changer of Ways when it was metal...
SOOOO freaking heavy and such a piss poor mounting for the wings...

And BTW-- the Thunder fire wasnt that hard to put togther, as long as you dry fit it first and realize that the barrel DIDNT have a notch for that molded pin...wait a minute thats not a pin, thats the BIGGEST piece of FLASH ive ever seen!!!

Necron Warriors. Way back when, I made a silvertide army with 124 stinking Warriors. Never again. I was happy when I sold them for around $500. Recently I got 12 warriors just because. I discovered that I still hate them.

Forgeworld Aquilla Lander, I thought it was such a cool model, bought it, had plans for it, built it and since the build, I've never used it because I hate it so much


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 The Deathless Host wrote:
The Tanks... God Emperor the tanks!

I know it...

For Painting. Necron Ghost Ark / Doomsday Cannon. GW has several models where it says to paint one or two pieces separately... the instructions for this say to paint every individual rib separate.

I realize many people paint each part of most models separate before glue but this is the first one I have come across that the instructions actually suggest painting in 10+ pieces.

For Constctuction. metal wierdboy and/or SAG mek. And finecast crypteks and overlords. Finecrap is no good for anything with a staff

 Pacific wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:


Metal Zoanthrope,

Generally I've always preferred the nicer, heavier tactile feel of metal over plastic. The problem with that Zoanthrope was though that it would fall over on a 0.5% gradient!

I refused to buy any Tyranid elites in metal. Zoanthropes for the obvious top heaviness, Hive Guard because they required a ridiculous amount of pinning and/or green stuff reinforcment, Lictors and Venomthropes because pinning joints that small was nightmarish.

I was actually on the lookout for resin/plastic alternatives on the market when Finecast dropped. I nearly cried when I saw Tyranids were in the first wave, all except the Venomthrope, and knew it would be next. Day it dropped, I bought a Zoanthrope. Couldn't be happier with any of the Tyranid elites I've bought, except the Venomthrope (to be fair, I saw the faults in the clam pack, and bought it as much for resin repair practice as to use).

Man, I almost feel bad complaining about any model when I don't have any experience with metal, but I do have a couple I hate-

Ork Lootas, while ok to assemble, make me want to punch children to paint. That harness lets you see everything underneath it, but I can't get a brush around it.

Necron Infantry- All of it. The initial assembly will go fine-to-fustrating at best, and the paint is easy, but all the glue contact points are so goddamned tiny. I spend less time playing with necrons and more time fixing them after every time I take them out of the box.

Necron Ghost Ark- Look, I hear this complaint from alot of people, so at least I know I am not alone. So many fiddly little bits that need to go together perfectly, and somehow, connecting the back end to the front end will NEVER turn out right.

'Crons are fething annoying in all aspects. The old school metal tomb spyders are not welcome in my sight at present.

I've heard the oldschool metal wraiths are possibly one of the worst models to assemble in gw's entire history, but I've only been playing for about a year, so I can't say