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phantommaster wrote:This guy was about 12 years old and was a bit of a - you know. It also had a strange rattle, I tipped it up to find a Khorne Beserker fall out of where the Heavy Bolters should have been!

I kind of like the latter idea. I'd like to see a Chaos Dread where instead of a close combat weapon, it has a arm with a Khorne Berserker tied to the end.

I second Ouze. I can't stop laughing.


My worst was when I was gluing together some DE jetbike riders. I was attaching the head to one, the plastic glue had just been applied and the whole lot as soft, and then my phone rang. Quickly propped the thing up and went to answer it.

Came back to find it must have been unstable or I bumped the table or something, because it had fallen backwards off the vice I'd left it on, and since the pony tail sticks straight out the back that had been the point touching. Due to softened joints this meant it had twisted on the neck from the weight of the model. Then set.

I came back to find my rider with the head facing backwards and stuck too well to get off. It looks like something out of the Exorcist.

I've seen someone with all up side down plasma guns. Not the worst thing but still kinda funny

My first rhino I quickly glued it went for dinner and returned to find the bottom of the model at an angle

Morgrim wrote:I came back to find my rider with the head facing backwards and stuck too well to get off. It looks like something out of the Exorcist.

I'd love to see a pic of that... did you ever paint it?

when i first started I put one of my space marines chest plates on upside down. but a friend has made rhinos like the leman russ on page one. >.< and he used plastic cement so it's becoming more work than its worth, to deassemble.

During a tournament a guy thought it would look cool to show a possessed rhino by gluing legs at each corner without doing any green stuff or anything. Pure It made the rhino as big as a LR. The rest of his army was just a crappy. Him and people like him that have been in the hobby for 20 years should wear signs stating, "Do not sell this man any super glue no matter what. Punishable by death."

Pipboy101 wrote:During a tournament a guy thought it would look cool to show a possessed rhino by gluing legs at each corner without doing any green stuff or anything. Pure It made the rhino as big as a LR. The rest of his army was just a crappy. Him and people like him that have been in the hobby for 20 years should wear signs stating, "Do not sell this man any super glue no matter what. Punishable by death."

Now if it had hundreds of legs beneath that would have been win.

Luggage FTW

epil wrote:Ive seen rinos with thehir treads done so wrong that they stick out and even a rino on youtube that had one of its lights positioned in the cented of the font of the vehical.
I myself have modeled many tyranids to look cool and not taken into account what the bio morphs I put on them actualy were representing. But that was when I first started.

AFAIK Rhino Lights can go all over the place and still be acceptable.

one of my space marines i assembled a few years ago has both a power fist and a melta gun.


and one of my friends started warhammer, bought the older SW battleforce (this was 3 years ago) and assembled all the boltguns back to front. i told him what he did, and about a week later he quit 40k.

I assembled one of my orks backwards. It's legs were the right way, but I put the torso and everything else on backwards.

Also, this one time, I GS'd my hair to a servitor. Twice.

S_P

This thread is pretty funny. I have assembled some of my models pretty shody but one of the funniest ones is i was putting together over 20 CSMs and was putting bolters in their hands and wasnt paying attention and had some of the guns facing backwards. I kept one of them like that and plan on painting him up eventually.

I once glued all ten of my fingers on my Leman Russ trying to hold it together.

I then realized the glue i used was Super glue.................

Son of Odin wrote:One of my friends, when he was working on his first army, which I believe was Raven Guard, assembled an absolutely horrible assault squad. It looked less like they were charging into battle and more like they were tripping into battle. He even managed to glue the torso on one of the marines on upside down.

..how? That's just sad.
The upside down torso, i mean

All of the worst assembled and painted models I've seen were done by myself lol. I was young, new at 40k, and new at modeling in general.

I have Space marines in slowed positions, like holding an auspex above his head. I also did that thing where I have a marine using a bolt pistol like a bolt rifle, but I actually did it on purpose; he was supposed to have run out of ammo so he fell back on his side-arm and was reloading said side-arm.

I have a lot of dark eldar that look like they are beckoning, but I did that a lot, so it just looks ridiculous. By far the worst model I've assembled was a warrior who I absolutely covered in spikes. I wanted him to look like he was standing still, looking bad-ass, so his gun arm is down at his side, and his sword arm is held up like he's challenging someone to a duel.

Well, I'm older and wiser, now. No more of that bullcrap!

This little kid, around 7 years old, when into my GW, and showed us his "awesome" figures.

They were space wolves.

The worst was a terminator with the stormbolter hand glued upside down, the head glued to the side, facing his shoulder, the legs backwards, and powersword hand glued normally.

I said to him "Uh, I don't think that's how storm bolters are supposed to go"

He said "Don't ask about that" in the best voice possible.

FlyDog wrote:My absolute worse model ever is my first real attempt at using Green Stuff. I was making an IG Vet squad at the time.



I was trying to make this guy out of an old Necromunda Goliath fig I had. There was fail, and yes it was epic.

What,the feth/.

Cjsuner wrote:It looked like he was playing telephone with the carbine....

Heh, that's a good one.

Beta_X wrote:I've seen someone with all up side down plasma guns. Not the worst thing but still kinda funny

Lol, when it gets hot, it gets... uncomfortably hot.

The worst I ever did personally was glue on a basilisk front hatch upside down. My justification is that it rests parallel to the ground allowing the driver to steady his laspistol and be able to shoot effectively even when on the move.

The worst legitimate model I've seen was an imperial guard sergeant. In order to make him look what I can assume is "dynamic", the person glued the sword arm so that it was pointing straight up. Of course, this makes the sword point backwards and the shoulderpad becomes an armpit-pad. It was actually kind of funny because with both arms in the air it sort of looked like he was surrendering. Other than that, I've seen a lot of arms positioned in such a way where you would have to break the models arms in order to get them to contort in various ways.

But of course, the worst stuff has all been emergency proxy. These include...

The cardboard square monolith:



and the infamous pepsifex:

tiny5th wrote:

Pipboy101 wrote:During a tournament a guy thought it would look cool to show a possessed rhino by gluing legs at each corner without doing any green stuff or anything. Pure It made the rhino as big as a LR. The rest of his army was just a crappy. Him and people like him that have been in the hobby for 20 years should wear signs stating, "Do not sell this man any super glue no matter what. Punishable by death."

Now if it had hundreds of legs beneath that would have been win.

Luggage FTW

Heh, Then all you need is a plague marine out the top using a camera with what is clearly a little nurgling inside painting you can't fault Twoflower and perhapse have a sorcerer out the other hatch with wiz'ard on his cloak.

When I was younger I remember a Kid using arcade tokens as bases..

Ailaros wrote:

Cjsuner wrote:It looked like he was playing telephone with the carbine....

Heh, that's a good one.

Beta_X wrote:I've seen someone with all up side down plasma guns. Not the worst thing but still kinda funny

Lol, when it gets hot, it gets... uncomfortably hot.

The worst I ever did personally was glue on a basilisk front hatch upside down. My justification is that it rests parallel to the ground allowing the driver to steady his laspistol and be able to shoot effectively even when on the move.

The worst legitimate model I've seen was an imperial guard sergeant. In order to make him look what I can assume is "dynamic", the person glued the sword arm so that it was pointing straight up. Of course, this makes the sword point backwards and the shoulderpad becomes an armpit-pad. It was actually kind of funny because with both arms in the air it sort of looked like he was surrendering. Other than that, I've seen a lot of arms positioned in such a way where you would have to break the models arms in order to get them to contort in various ways.

But of course, the worst stuff has all been emergency proxy. These include...

The cardboard square monolith:



and the infamous pepsifex:

The monolith made me laugh, but the pepsifex made this thread win. Thats my kind of ingenuity. My best story for that, is I played a game using a BW with a ram on it to count as a BW with deff rolla. My opponent complained about the dimensions being all out of wack somehow, so I duct taped an aspirin bottle to my BW lol

Had my fair share of horrors off ebay - recent one was a chaos biker where the rider looked like he was hovering above the seat, hands 1cm away from handlebars and the front bolters were glued on back to front ie. aiming at the rider.

rowan341 wrote:

tiny5th wrote:

Pipboy101 wrote:During a tournament a guy thought it would look cool to show a possessed rhino by gluing legs at each corner without doing any green stuff or anything. Pure It made the rhino as big as a LR. The rest of his army was just a crappy. Him and people like him that have been in the hobby for 20 years should wear signs stating, "Do not sell this man any super glue no matter what. Punishable by death."

Now if it had hundreds of legs beneath that would have been win.

Luggage FTW

Heh, Then all you need is a plague marine out the top using a camera with what is clearly a little nurgling inside painting you can't fault Twoflower and perhapse have a sorcerer out the other hatch with wiz'ard on his cloak.

OH GAWD

Now I want to make a Discworld themed army

Nightbringer skelefied as Daemon prince BD

When I worked for GW we had a guy come in for a painting lesson with his starter set marines. The first thing I noticed was that the bases were glued on upside down, the next was that they had some small scraps of what looked like paper towel all over them. I asked the guy what was all over the models and he said:

"Oh, I used Superglue to put them together and they kept sticking to my fingers..."

It was fething SKIN!!!!!!!