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4M2A wrote:For me it's Tau broadsides. I spent hours attaching then reattaching the railguns then finaly I did it. About 15 minutes later it fell over and the ankles snapped. Safe to say I will never buy another one.

I hear ya on that one. Too much gun, not enough contact point. Mine I finally got glued together after like 20 minutes of gluing and regluing (And stripping off superglue to try again).

I think the worst model I've had to assemble, which isn't saying much, is Njal Stormcaller. Just because everything is so touchy on him, and doesn't really glue right. The arms are always popping off, and the raven was a pain in the ass to get to glue to the little perch on his shoulder (I swear, the bottom of the slot in the raven does not touch the perch at all - you have to kind of glue it on to use the sides as contact points, or use greenstuff).

Storm Lord wrote:Does sticking a predator turret to my head once count as hurting?

...wait, what?

Locclo wrote:

Storm Lord wrote:Does sticking a predator turret to my head once count as hurting?

...wait, what?

Im not sure how it happened, all I know is I managed to get it stuck to my head whilst assembling both the predators and my Havocs. getting it off was not the most fun thing I've ever had to do

ceorron wrote:Having now put a Thunderfire Cannon together, I can now say for sure I must have felt the worst model to put together.

The heavy tracks spiked into my fingers. The halves of the cannon didn't fit 100% and so needed bending slightly. The pointing forward parts under the cannon didn't fit so needed filling and the back of the cannon didn't fit so needed filling too.

With the recent recall of sales of Killa Kans in the EU and me putting together of a frankly mad metal model was wondering if anyone else had tales of pain because of a model they had bought.

I ing hate night goblins. ive had a whole unit dangling from my hand by their pointy spears.

Obliterators. In the end I just get lazy and leave all those gun bits off. Plus the bodies never fit correctly together

My dread not was pain, it stabbed me a few times when i was modifying it .


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Deffkoptas. The AoBR Deffkoptas. The amount of times the rotor blades on those buggers have broken is unbelieveable.

i havent assembled a TFC - are they worth it though?

Nothing that bad really. Had some problems with the old Isengard Troll, Zoanthrope could have been easier, but GS was at hand, so, nothing bad I guess. Wait a second, what is that I remember? Oh no.....LICTOR!!!!!!!! So bloody spikey, and even when being the most caring, he breaks. I ended up looking at him once after fully assembling him for about the fifth time, then grabbing him and breaking him up again. He could go decorate a Wraithlord base now, for all I care.

i hated putting my nosie marines together. The arms semmed to be too long , so I had to convert them a fair bit. Multi part metal and palstic I usually dont like .One or the other is best for me.

Murray wrote:i havent assembled a TFC - are they worth it though?

Looks competant on the battle field especially at range 60" and with the tremour rule. Great if your play alot of hord armies like nids and orks, especially with the tremour special rule, and the techmarine gives fight in CC, good if you are worried about your artilery getting assaulted. Also good at taking on IG players that love to hide in terrain. I think it is given a really bad rap by SM players, probably because they only play MEQ.

At the same time would i want to stick another together. No no I wouldn't.

I think the reason that unit gets a bad rap IS because of the model. It is a well known nightmare to put together so people avoid it or are actively discouraged for using it. Which means it is hardly ever seen and people think 'oh, nobody ever takes that, it must be a bad unit to use'.

Necron Tomb Spyder, its all fun and games until you have a row of legs and a gauss projector glued to your hand, prying it off, well thats a different story >.<

in my case ANYTHING requiring the use of a craft knife. gargoyles as well, i've stabbed myself on the wing-spikes glueing the wings on many times

Multiple pentient engines. Its all metal, some things dont fit and the legs, feet cross piece is a bitch to get set up on the base even doing it in stages.

My CSM Daemon Prince. not so much a spiky model...but the parts are so heavy that you have to bath them in super glue...i prolly lost about 5 lbs of skin building that thing

I got a thunderfire cannon a couple months ago. it currently has about three pounds of dust on it from sitting on my shelf. I can not put anything together, i have almost gone insane

The metal Chaos Dreadnaught did a bit of damage to me. Since the model is heavy, I had to use alot of glue and putty and hold the model together with my fingers until it dried for ages. My left thumb is now permantly little stiff and goes click every now and again as a result

Pretty much all of my DE have been painful to glue together. The archon's agonizer claw (that thing is so pointy), the wyches (spiky shoulder things) and the warriors (argh the bayonets) have all been pointy enough to cause slight agony.

But I don't mind being first blood.

When i first made a ork trukk i cut my right hand 4 times, one on each finger, not including the thumb, still like the model.

Two words: Reaver Titan

I don't need to say anything else.

Valk

Ratlings, Krashins/Storm troopers, Ogryns, Metal Commissars, most IG tanks, Skaven and anything that use those spears.....

Land Speeder. Nothing in the kit would fit right, leaving giant gaps in the sides. I got frustrated and slopped way too much super glue on part of and pinched it together with my fingers. After 10 minutes of holding it together I realized my thumb and finger were glued to the plastic resulting in me cutting them off with my modeling knife, and to top it all off it split apart at the gap on the model a minute later!

I know it isn't a 40k unit... but my cold one knights...

X-acto knife + fingers =

13 stitches... worst injury to date.

humm worst model ever porbably Gazkul those bloody horns just will not stay glued, plenty of injuries including a razor saw cut on my hand that went pretty deep.

I am an architectural modelmaker and my worst work injury was a piece of wood about the same size as a chopstick being shot into my hand, it entered at the base of my middle finger traversed my palm and was poking out but did not break the skin on the back of my hand between my thunb and forfinger, two night stay at london hospital to get that one sorted

mullet_steve wrote:humm worst model ever porbably Gazkul those bloody horns just will not stay glued, plenty of injuries including a razor saw cut on my hand that went pretty deep.

I am an architectural modelmaker and my worst work injury was a piece of wood about the same size as a chopstick being shot into my hand, it entered at the base of my middle finger traversed my palm and was poking out but did not break the skin on the back of my hand between my thunb and forfinger, two night stay at london hospital to get that one sorted

Painful first post...

Some people think it strange of me to have sat in the workshop and taken pictures of my hand while waiting half an hour for the ambulance, I only wish i had thought to include a ruler in the picture csi style for size comparison.

Biggest splinter ever!

Tyranids. Period.

Now don't get me wrong, I love the models, each and every one. However, each have their own little darling behaviors... I swear they snicker at me when I'm not looking... *peers at his trygon grinning at him*

Let's list em.

Trygon: Painfully sharp talons. Never drew blood, but they felt sharper than the blade I was using. At one point I had my finger stuck between the sprue and model like some booby trap to catch animals with.

Zoanthropes: These are deceptively simple to put together... until you look at the arms and vents for the back. Much greenstuff, cursing, and glue goes into every one. Oh, and pinning the vents? Too small for pins. GS by far the most effective method, and I say effective loosely.

Hive Tyrant: Whoever decided on those little claws on his feet will feel my wrath one day. Other than that, his chest spikes seem to always find a way to catch under my nails.

Hive Guard: The gun weighs as much as the body and is nearly as long, and connects well towards the front of the torso. Oh, and the arms don't necessarily meet up properly. So yea. And the first box I opened had an extra pair of right legs in it... weird.

Gaunts: Just cleaning these guys has left me with numerous cuts from my own blade. And mold lines that mock me once I think I'm done.

Ork metal deff dreads.

Actually, strangely enough, I found the new Lemartes to be a real pain in the bum - I tried gluing the jump pack on on no less than three separate occasions (leaving it a full night to dry each time) before giving up and reaching for the Araldite.

My worst model has to be an LRC i put together.....its all lopsided the engine isnt in it the front hatch doesnt go down one sponson doesnt turn and all the other weapons are glued in place minus the turret which has a dime glued to the bottom for stability.....I would have stopped trying an hour and a half in if the tank didnt kick so much ass