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Maybe I'm just lucky, but I have never had issues with the Valkyrie. Nor any vehicle for that matter.

 Valkyrie wrote:
Oh please, you sir have never dealt with the old fully-resin Vultures. The crappy tailfins are nothing compared to the even thinner ones which the weight of the whole fuselage has to rest on.

Solution: pin everything, put it on a good flying base, and never "land" it. It's easy to avoid putting weight on the fins, and with a good pinning job it's no more fragile than any other resin kit. The one I got went together just fine, which is a complete contrast to the Valkyrie kit I got that is a horrible pile of parts that are supposed to fit together but are mis-sized in different ways.

For me it would be Revenant Titan and the old Fire Prism with the metal crystal.

 Peregrine wrote:

 Valkyrie wrote:
Oh please, you sir have never dealt with the old fully-resin Vultures. The crappy tailfins are nothing compared to the even thinner ones which the weight of the whole fuselage has to rest on.

Solution: pin everything, put it on a good flying base, and never "land" it. It's easy to avoid putting weight on the fins, and with a good pinning job it's no more fragile than any other resin kit. The one I got went together just fine, which is a complete contrast to the Valkyrie kit I got that is a horrible pile of parts that are supposed to fit together but are mis-sized in different ways.

Oh, lord. That's why I never actually built the FW Valkyries that I did buy. Really, the hull on this one is a half centimeter longer on one side than the other? And the same for the next one I got hold of?

Since the plastic one came out and went together so well, I'm really thinking that the FW kits I've got need to be made as wrecks, for scenery.

It wasn't the hardest model in the world but it was soul crushing:

Space marine biker.

I was young at the time and didn't realise it would require some skil to build the models.

I broke it in 3-4 places :( My first model I was heartbroken.

 Peregrine wrote:

 Valkyrie wrote:
Oh please, you sir have never dealt with the old fully-resin Vultures. The crappy tailfins are nothing compared to the even thinner ones which the weight of the whole fuselage has to rest on.

Solution: pin everything, put it on a good flying base, and never "land" it. It's easy to avoid putting weight on the fins, and with a good pinning job it's no more fragile than any other resin kit. The one I got went together just fine, which is a complete contrast to the Valkyrie kit I got that is a horrible pile of parts that are supposed to fit together but are mis-sized in different ways.

Wow, I had never thought of pinning it(!) Even drilling into the fins is difficult enough, both on the Valk and the Vulture simply due to the thinness of the pieces.

any more guardsmen.... you would think a hundred or so would be enough to make me commit sippoku

The Legion of Everblight Hexhunters, with their UA they eat glue spit it onto your fingers and laugh as you try to put tiny arms holding huge swords into stupid poses, Bayal is holding a sword in such a way to ensure he looks as silly as possible, and don't get me started on my Angelius, built, painted, and falls in half so often I haven't had the heart to reassemble him this time so it just kind of sits in the box, staring at the ceiling.

This maybe a bit strange but the IG Lord Commisar really, really annoyed me. His arms just refused point blank to stay on and seems to be resistant to all kinds of glue. In the end, I used an ungodly amount of glue and then melted his arms into place with a lighter.

This thread seems to rapidly becoming a pin-fest

 King Pariah wrote:
Maybe I'm just lucky, but I have never had issues with the Valkyrie. Nor any vehicle for that matter.

I think it depends if you grew up putting together Airfix kits and the like. If so, none of the new stuff on the market will give you any problems - especially if you were blooded on some of those 70's Airfix kits which, while probably not very good when they were first made, were an absolute nightmare twenty years later when you would end up with massive gaps between fuselage and wings!

Funnily enough, I've had a similar experience with some of the larger FW kits in recent times - absolute crap; resin is an appalling medium to use for larger vehicles, and there is no excuse at all for some of those not being a highly detailed plastic kit comparable to many others on the market. Especially when FW apparently sometimes have a blind man with no sense of touch throwing the miniature bits straight from the mould into packing!*

* based on getting a razorback turret (a single piece order) that was bent at 90 degrees from where it should have been.

 Pacific wrote:

 King Pariah wrote:
Maybe I'm just lucky, but I have never had issues with the Valkyrie. Nor any vehicle for that matter.

I think it depends if you grew up putting together Airfix kits and the like. If so, none of the new stuff on the market will give you any problems - especially if you were blooded on some of those 70's Airfix kits which, while probably not very good when they were first made, were an absolute nightmare twenty years later when you would end up with massive gaps between fuselage and wings!

Funnily enough, I've had a similar experience with some of the larger FW kits in recent times - absolute crap; resin is an appalling medium to use for larger vehicles, and there is no excuse at all for some of those not being a highly detailed plastic kit comparable to many others on the market. Especially when FW apparently sometimes have a blind man with no sense of touch throwing the miniature bits straight from the mould into packing!*

* based on getting a razorback turret (a single piece order) that was bent at 90 degrees from where it should have been.

Oh dont some of those old kits still give me nightmares

Not the worst model I have put together (that honour goes to the metal gyrocopter), but a combination of poor design, sculpting and general hate (possibly because I have had to paint 3 of the damn things) my award goes to the Warhammer plastic Chimera.

The Dogs of War Malakai Makaissons Goblin Hewer. There just seemed to be so many small pieces in awkward places. Too much glue and you were stuck to it, too little and they fell off.

Cheers

Andrew

steel Legion, made me want to scream, who makes a slotta that is too thin for the slot it has to go into I ask you!??!?

I think my most frustrating was the FW dreadnought drop pod. Poorly designed, poorly cast and the ball & socket joins for the doors broke straight away.

If only they'd had plastic DP's at that point!

Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
I think my most frustrating was the FW dreadnought drop pod. Poorly designed, poorly cast and the ball & socket joins for the doors broke straight away.

If only they'd had plastic DP's at that point!

Put one together recently, and my god its a heavy piece of resin!, two doors broke off when I put it so I flogged it on ebay, heartbroken :(

Metal Talos X 3