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The guns on the Necron Immortals, the hands on the Flayed Ones, and the Claws on the Tomb Spider. It's like GW wasn't too heavily worried aboutthese parts being able to stay in one piece. If a person just looks at them hard they fall apart since there's really not even big enough an area to do a decent pin job.

Anything Seb Perbet puts a sculpting tool too......

Kej wrote:Anything Seb Perbet puts a sculpting tool too......

do you think? I actually quite liked his golden daemon entry that one year, it was a nurgle daemon prince, the one the new nurgle daemon prince model is a rip off of. Im not sure if it was actually him that sculpted that new model, now I think of it.

*Most* hated?

That's a toughie.

Looking at current stuff, in terms of things they still sell and you'd actually find on the tabletop, there's a lot of "meh".

But something I truly despise?


IG Leman Russ!


That tank looks like crap and hasn't aged well at all. But IG players need the firepower, and there is no replacement on the horizon, despite the other old stuff like Rhino / Land Raider getting properly redone.

Eh, I like the Leman Russ model just fine. Venerable and clunky, just like the tank itself.

The all-metal Venerable Dreadnought and Killa Kan models, now, I truly believe two different people sculpted half of each model. They do not go together *at all*. I had a buddy trying to assemble a Kan army, and he would call and cuss out the GW helpline guy for whatever QA practice let such a horrible model get put into final production.

Kej wrote:Anything Seb Perbet puts a sculpting tool too......

I ment assembleing modles, not the out come of someone elses.

H.B.M.C. wrote:
1. Metal Hybrid Devastators. The Lascannon was ok, but that Heavy Bolter... Jesus H. Christ on a pogostick. That thing does not fit. Period. End of story. End of line. It. Does. Not. Go. Together.

What's the "H" stand for, anyway?

And why's he on a pogo stick? He could get hurt.

Leman Russ and Chimera tanks are purely the reason I refuse to start a guard army, even though they are what I would like to do next.

I hate the new raptor jump packs as well and doubt I will buy any till they change.

I'm not to fond of the whole Eldar line either.

Nagash.

Its been a long time since I assembled any GW stuff, but I do remember hating the Land Speeders.

Damn you Ravenwing. Damn you straight to hell.

Saldiven wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:
1. Metal Hybrid Devastators. The Lascannon was ok, but that Heavy Bolter... Jesus H. Christ on a pogostick. That thing does not fit. Period. End of story. End of line. It. Does. Not. Go. Together.

What's the "H" stand for, anyway?

And why's he on a pogo stick? He could get hurt.

the H stands for Hebrew and why not on a pogo stick? I give this as my proof. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/30/why-do-folks-say-jesus-h-christ

Saldiven wrote:What's the "H" stand for, anyway?

And why's he on a pogo stick? He could get hurt.

Hamilton. And you're worried about him getting hurt on a pogo stick? I'd be more worried about the two pieces of wood he gets put up on at the end of the movie. That stuff'll kill him.

My most hated model is the old Crimson Fist Captain Cortez model. Crimson Fist fans wait for ages to get a character model and that's the piece of crap we got? Come on!

Tyranid zoanthrope. Whoever had the brilliant idea of putting 90% of the weight of a large all metal model 4 inches off the ground needs to be given ten million dollars.

That ten million dollars then needs to be taken away from him in a brutal and heart wrenching divorce leaving him with nothing.

@Shuma: How is the Zoanthrope possibly any worse-balanced than a Flying Hive Tyrant?

You're talking about an all-metal model sitting atop a notoriously-fragile GW flying stand, further unbalanced by giant FW resin wings unfurled at the very top!

The Chaos Dreadnought.

I mean, just look at it. That thing has been sucking hard for like 8 years now.

The hive tyrant has a much larger base that is easier to weight. It also has its center of gravity spread more evenly across a much wider surface since the model itsef isn't just a pole.

The zoanthrop is basicaly a thin metal rod with a weight at the top. It's also far, far, FAR is easier to convert the tyrant to worry less about tipping over. The zoanthope is basically unconvertable.

Nagash. Penitant Engine. Chaos Dread.

And sorry I have to lump it in here, the new Snikrot. Blegh.

Has no one here built an Ogre Kingdoms Gnoblar Scaplauncher?

Seriously, you want bad? just try it out. My friend refused to build his, so I did it.

The model



Whats completely wrong with it, as shown in this diagram as horribly designed as he model itself



This chain. there's one on either side. 2 out of three connection points are on the underside of the model, impossible to pin effectively
platforms for the gnoblars to stand on. thin, impossible to pin effetively, connection points on only the inner most points causing it to be very unstable
the 9 or so gnoblars that they expect you to fit onto all the unstable areas...enough said
rear platform. simply does. not. fit.
these "fences" of sorts on the outer edges of the already unstable platforms. fell off instantly, never bothered to glue them back on
the firing mechanism. 4 metal pieces, nothing fits, angles have to be perfect for the front rope connection


I could keep going....

Necron Pariahs, if they had sharp models I'd buy 8 (even with their current 36pt suckatude)
Love the fluffy hate the sculpt

Chaos bloodletters like the old ones better

Tizz wrote:Has no one here built an Ogre Kingdoms Gnoblar Scaplauncher?

Seriously, you want bad? just try it out. My friend refused to build his, so I did it.

Nope.

OTOH, I didn't even bother starting to assemble the metal bitz on my LR Crusader before I sold it.

But at least you get a perfectly usable Rhinox model out of it....

crap. double-post.

IG Hellhound was a beast, but I have to give it to the Obliterators as being the biggest pains in the ass that I've ever built. I glued my fingers together with more success than I got those little weapon accessories to fit onto those stupid hand-holes.

Ork Dread naught....

OR

the new transexual tau deamonettes

hmm most hated model. if your going for looks the new Vampires, they just look wierd and wrong

to build......defilers, i thought the landspeeder was bad but that is the only GW model i have ever had to get the instruction book out to work out where half of the extra crap went i was not impressed with it at all

also some current peevs in terms of gaming are the new Stormboys, tag on 5 pence to every box just to get the bloody things to stand up straight when your playing with em

Relapse wrote: The guns on the Necron Immortals, the hands on the Flayed Ones, and the Claws on the Tomb Spider.

I found these parts to be quite easy once a person gives in an accepts the POWER OF GREENSTUFF in their lives.

BYE

Kej wrote:Anything Seb Perbet puts a sculpting tool too......

Yet your avatar is one of his models....

Happygrunt wrote:Is there a modle that you just hate?

Oh yea (get a cup of coffee)!

Forgeworld Everything

Anything made by forgeworld, the concepts are very cool, but the product is very low quality. For the record I have built 2 Thunderhawk Gunships, a Warhound, 3 Valkyries, a Vulture, a Baneblade, the Siege Mortar Kit, the Armored Basilisk, all the Tau Suits and a whole host of the infantry additions (most of these were commissions). I am a modeler in the classic sense and have built a wide variety of other manufacturers kits including: poly caps, rubber, resin, metal cast, composite, vinyl, brass etch, and plastic. Without a doubt, Forgeworld has the worst quality control of any manufacturer I have ever ordered a kit from. Their designs are poorly engineered and notorious for flat or strait pieces being anything but and their common additions are inconsistent, like rhino doors fitting in poorly or being cast in different widths, some so thin light shows through them. Furthermore the images on their website are very misleading for scale and quality, they show cleaned asembled and primered pieces for multipart kits, especially on the more expensive kits whitch are also usually significantly smaller than expected. As they demand a premium price and have a very lengthy and expensive shipping process, they ought to produce a better product. Forgeworld kits seldom come with any options, and a single broken or warped piece is going to mean an awful lot of reconstructive work for an advanced modeler or ruin the kit for a junior one.

Ork Truck

This kit is so ramshackle it is not a very convincing combat vehicle. I expected something more like a half track and less like the beverly hill billies. I suspect some will like it for this however.

Dark Eldar everything

Particularly the Talos, which is so poorly matched that assembling it with giant flush gued metal pieces is frustrating. But generally the whole line is outdated, fiddly, and fairly silly looking.

Leg Poses

Why is almost every model in the 40k univers standing with 2 feet firmly planted, particularly among the races that are fleet of foot. How hard would it be to make legs that are stepping, running, leaping, taking off, landing, crouched, at attention, kneeling or something besides the standard A frame pose, TAC Marines, Avengers, Guardians, Sisters of Battle, Orks are all really awful examples of this poor posing. At least there are now some kneeling marine legs, and some IG legs but getting them is so hard, they ought to be options on the standard sprues. For the love of the game why not make a few more prone models too? There has been what one? In the steel Legion? Really?

Necron Lords

They have a cape? That's it huh?.. and no modeled wargear options? This is a kit that just needs everything.

Penitent engine

This kit is an abomination of metal, it is hard to build, lines up poorly, expensive and as an added bonus, not very good in the game either...

Sternguard

Need to have all the options for combi weapons and the heavy flamer, possibly also a bit for shoulder pads or helmets. Unfortunately the options are not all there.

Roughriders

Plastic horses from 1980? Enough said, completely embarasing in all their incarnations.

Obliterators

Like Sternguard another incredible unit with an awful model, expensive, clunky, and hard to build, these seem like they were a nice green that was puttied up with the fleshy growths and sawed in half in an arc for some reason to get cast? Why? The weapons they morph should match the ones they can shoot in the game.

Demon Princes

This concept has been around in WHFB and WH40K for a long time, it deserves to have a multipart platic or metal kit with options, but instead there is the giant marine requiring wing conversions? How long are they going to write rules for great winged demon princes without having a model. Also in this category, where are any of the minis for the characters out of the demon codex? Their absence makes me think that whole dex was a mistaken release with no planning, aren't there 7 characters in it and all that was made was the nurgle baby on a palanquin, the mask and the skulltaker, where are the big guys? The lash prince is everywhere, a slanesh model with a whip would be nice, please?

Great Unclean One

What is so fearsome about being so fat you can't move, adequately gross but not fierce looking. How about a grim reaper plague style one? They have wings half the time anyway...

Augustus wrote:How long are they going to write rules for great winged demon princes without having a model.

A few more months. There's a plastic Daemon Prince in the Daemon 2nd Wave. I'm thinking May/June, maybe as early as Feb (Jan is Orks, March is Apoc, April is Guard).

BYE

Wow thats cool, I hadn't heard, best news I had all day!

I hope my post wasn't over the top, (but I had to stop myself from continuing) there are a lot of things I love but a load of junk too!

I figured you'd be right there with the roughriders HBMC!