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Forge World Chaos Mammoth. Still occassionally eye that Smaug model though...

The most expensive single model I have ever bought was from FW three years ago. It is still in it's bag, which has thankfully stopped me buying anything bigger.

if RC kits count, then my Tamiya Buggy Champ. if we're just talking wargaming or static, then I think my imperial raider (not that i paid full retail for it)

If we're talking wargaming only, I will admit I don't really buy big kits. Probably a Trygon or something, I don't keep track. Maybe something from FW but I mostly buy smaller stuff from FW.

If we're expanding to models in general, I'd say the "highest end" kit I've bought was a Tamiya 1/32 Spitfire. Great kit, expensive but worth every penny. I've bought a 1/32 Tempest which was more expensive but I wouldn't describe it as being higher end, it was just more expensive because it was a short run kit.

The most expensive thing I've bought is a 1:200 scale model of HMS Nelson, a WWII-era British battleship that was a unique and noticeable design amongst warships at the time. The kit itself contains over 1600 parts, in addition to which I purchased the extra-detail kit from a third-party dealer, bringing the total number of parts to approx 2300-2500.

This is what the final result should look like.



Big isn't it? The hull is around 1.5x the height of my Reaver Titan when stood on-end.

However, the size of this thing allows more detail than anything you could ever dream of in Games Workshop or indeed most model companies. Lets look at one of the guns.




This is a 20mm Oerlikon Autocannon with a Skitarii for comparison. The Oerlikon was a rather common small calibre AA gun used on the Allied warships. The cannon for this kit is made of brass sheet and a milled brass barrel. There are 11 parts which go into that small gun when it's finished (at the time of the photo the gun was missing the sights and triggers. Each piece must be individually cut and folded using tweezers and magnifying glasses, to create something small enough the Skitarii could use as a pistol.

I enjoy a challenge, however, but I feel this will keep me busy for many, many years to come. Just to put it into perspective how long this may take: The gun in the above photo took about 2 hours of work - There are 62 of those to make.

Sixty. Two.

I feel it would probably be quicker to build the real thing.

A Forgeworld Cerastus Knight Castigator. Honestly, the thing was a superb kit. Including the cost of shipping, the sucker was around $300 usd, but it was absolutely worth it. The cast was perfect, and everything fit together beautifully. It was certainly easier to prep and assemble than the other large FW things I've got (a Fire Raptor and a Spartan).

Now I'm eyeing up that Poryphrion, and I don't own an actual Titan yet...

To be fair, ascending Everest, breaking the world 50m Freestyle record while swimming in lava and free diving to the bottom of the Marianna trench are all things that are easier than assembling a Fire Raptor or a Spartan.

Haha lol true but the most expensive thing I own is a cerastus knight lancer.

 Azreal13 wrote:
To be fair, ascending Everest, breaking the world 50m Freestyle record while swimming in lava and free diving to the bottom of the Marianna trench are all things that are easier than assembling a Fire Raptor or a Spartan.

These are facts, no doubt. The Fire Raptor took me a good week to assemble, and I'm still not 100% happy, although it's long been glued and painted. There's a limit to what one man can handle. It's why I'd never try to put together some of those cool 1000+ part large model kits pictured in this thread. It's just not in my nature to be that exacting and meticulous for long periods of time.

 Bi'ios wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
To be fair, ascending Everest, breaking the world 50m Freestyle record while swimming in lava and free diving to the bottom of the Marianna trench are all things that are easier than assembling a Fire Raptor or a Spartan.

These are facts, no doubt. The Fire Raptor took me a good week to assemble, and I'm still not 100% happy, although it's long been glued and painted. There's a limit to what one man can handle. It's why I'd never try to put together some of those cool 1000+ part large model kits pictured in this thread. It's just not in my nature to be that exacting and meticulous for long periods of time.

I really don't know why everyone finds the Fire Raptor so difficult. It looks like it doesn't go together and then you see that the alignment between the pieces in the front of the fuselage isn't the obvious one and it's easy.

Two in a day, no gaps - no filler.

The most expensive model, or the biggest one, is the Dreamforge Games Leviathan Crusader. (A bit bigger than an imperial knight.)
Lovely model, everything went together perfectly save for a few of the ankle joints.

 Scott-S6 wrote:

 Bi'ios wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
To be fair, ascending Everest, breaking the world 50m Freestyle record while swimming in lava and free diving to the bottom of the Marianna trench are all things that are easier than assembling a Fire Raptor or a Spartan.

These are facts, no doubt. The Fire Raptor took me a good week to assemble, and I'm still not 100% happy, although it's long been glued and painted. There's a limit to what one man can handle. It's why I'd never try to put together some of those cool 1000+ part large model kits pictured in this thread. It's just not in my nature to be that exacting and meticulous for long periods of time.

I really don't know why everyone finds the Fire Raptor so difficult. It looks like it doesn't go together and then you see that the alignment between the pieces in the front of the fuselage isn't the obvious one and it's easy.

Two in a day, no gaps - no filler.

Because of you're not lucky enough to get a cast that's been given adequate curing time before being pulled from the mold, the two side pieces from the hull warp really easily, and if they're even a little bit out their size and thickness makes them difficult to correct, and there's a lot of elements that rely on them being absolutely bang on.

 Azreal13 wrote:

 Scott-S6 wrote:

 Bi'ios wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
To be fair, ascending Everest, breaking the world 50m Freestyle record while swimming in lava and free diving to the bottom of the Marianna trench are all things that are easier than assembling a Fire Raptor or a Spartan.

These are facts, no doubt. The Fire Raptor took me a good week to assemble, and I'm still not 100% happy, although it's long been glued and painted. There's a limit to what one man can handle. It's why I'd never try to put together some of those cool 1000+ part large model kits pictured in this thread. It's just not in my nature to be that exacting and meticulous for long periods of time.

I really don't know why everyone finds the Fire Raptor so difficult. It looks like it doesn't go together and then you see that the alignment between the pieces in the front of the fuselage isn't the obvious one and it's easy.

Two in a day, no gaps - no filler.

Because of you're not lucky enough to get a cast that's been given adequate curing time before being pulled from the mold, the two side pieces from the hull warp really easily, and if they're even a little bit out their size and thickness makes them difficult to correct, and there's a lot of elements that rely on them being absolutely bang on.

This is exactly correct. I'm not the kinda guy who bitches about things not being perfect, and I'm well aware that there's work necessary on the user end with resin models, but if I lived in the UK, and wouldn't have to wait 2-3 weeks for the replacement, I'd have exchanged the model.

 Bi'ios wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:

 Scott-S6 wrote:

 Bi'ios wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
To be fair, ascending Everest, breaking the world 50m Freestyle record while swimming in lava and free diving to the bottom of the Marianna trench are all things that are easier than assembling a Fire Raptor or a Spartan.

These are facts, no doubt. The Fire Raptor took me a good week to assemble, and I'm still not 100% happy, although it's long been glued and painted. There's a limit to what one man can handle. It's why I'd never try to put together some of those cool 1000+ part large model kits pictured in this thread. It's just not in my nature to be that exacting and meticulous for long periods of time.

I really don't know why everyone finds the Fire Raptor so difficult. It looks like it doesn't go together and then you see that the alignment between the pieces in the front of the fuselage isn't the obvious one and it's easy.

Two in a day, no gaps - no filler.

Because of you're not lucky enough to get a cast that's been given adequate curing time before being pulled from the mold, the two side pieces from the hull warp really easily, and if they're even a little bit out their size and thickness makes them difficult to correct, and there's a lot of elements that rely on them being absolutely bang on.

This is exactly correct. I'm not the kinda guy who bitches about things not being perfect, and I'm well aware that there's work necessary on the user end with resin models, but if I lived in the UK, and wouldn't have to wait 2-3 weeks for the replacement, I'd have exchanged the model.

All of my hill sides had to be straightened. That's just normal. It doesn't matter how long they leave them in the mould, the mould is soft and differential cooling will pull them out of shape.

Heat them till they're flexible, set them up on something dead straight and then plunge into cold water.

 Scott-S6 wrote:

 Bi'ios wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:

 Scott-S6 wrote:

 Bi'ios wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
To be fair, ascending Everest, breaking the world 50m Freestyle record while swimming in lava and free diving to the bottom of the Marianna trench are all things that are easier than assembling a Fire Raptor or a Spartan.

These are facts, no doubt. The Fire Raptor took me a good week to assemble, and I'm still not 100% happy, although it's long been glued and painted. There's a limit to what one man can handle. It's why I'd never try to put together some of those cool 1000+ part large model kits pictured in this thread. It's just not in my nature to be that exacting and meticulous for long periods of time.

I really don't know why everyone finds the Fire Raptor so difficult. It looks like it doesn't go together and then you see that the alignment between the pieces in the front of the fuselage isn't the obvious one and it's easy.

Two in a day, no gaps - no filler.

Because of you're not lucky enough to get a cast that's been given adequate curing time before being pulled from the mold, the two side pieces from the hull warp really easily, and if they're even a little bit out their size and thickness makes them difficult to correct, and there's a lot of elements that rely on them being absolutely bang on.

This is exactly correct. I'm not the kinda guy who bitches about things not being perfect, and I'm well aware that there's work necessary on the user end with resin models, but if I lived in the UK, and wouldn't have to wait 2-3 weeks for the replacement, I'd have exchanged the model.

All of my hill sides had to be straightened. That's just normal. It doesn't matter how long they leave them in the mould, the mould is soft and differential cooling will pull them out of shape.

Heat them till they're flexible, set them up on something dead straight and then plunge into cold water.

Yeah even then it's still a nightmare. I LOVE FW kits, I've put together most things short of a Warlord titan from FW as in my gaming group I'm the 'modeling guy' but that damn Fire Raptor just sucked. Hell the Warhound I'm doing is way easier then then the FR kit was.

Most expensive model kit? How do we figure? MSRP?

If we're going by MSRP for individual gaming models, then it's my Imperial Knight Paladin ($157). The wrinkle is that I got that as part of IKR, of which I sold the 2nd Knight, terrain, and Avenger Gatling Cannon, bringing my net cost to $50-ish.

If we're going by net spend, it's probably my 56mm Dreamforge Leviathan Crusader ($89).

For how much stuff I have, and how much I've spent, I'm a bit surprised that I don't have more big ticket items.

Unless we count Kingdom Death : Monster 1.5, which was something like $265 for the core game in the 1.5 KS.

OTOH, if we count RC kits as someone suggested above, then my 1/10 HPI RS4 Pro was something like $500 painted with the electronics installed.


But when we get right down to it, the absolute most expensive of all, by far is my 1/2 scale mini-me... and the costs keep climbing, with no end within the next decade!

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I suppose I should throw in Fortress Maximus here, now celebrating 5 years of bring 80% complete!