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Not Online!!! wrote:
I for some reason can't wrap my head around the backpart of Valkyires,

There's nothing wrong with my backpart thank you very much!

Anything that Forgeworld makes. Anything in Finecast. Anything with sprue connectors in stupid places (such on the inside of a curve or on a very thin part) where you can't really remove leftover sprue without damaging the model.

Apart from that I love building stuff.

Anything that connects to a base solely by a thread of plastic and hope.

I'll be honest, I hate building Rhino chassis based vehicles. If i haven't build 30 of the things with that chassis I've built at least 20. Unlike most of these sorts of things were you build a couple and then never need to do it again while you never stop building Rhino chassis if you play Marines.

Anything with legs that are multiple parts. I find it hard to get a) sensible pose b) not just standing in parade formation look

DKoK Grenadier hellgun power cables.

Metal Thunderfire Cannons. Absolutely nothing fit right.

Metal Obliterators.

Eldar Vampire flyer (this thing basically wont stay together and has huge gaps).

And a special mention for the Warmachine Khador Behemoth just because. A monumentally poorly designed model.

Anything branded 'Easy Build'. That stuff is gak!.

Been assembling models for over 25 years and my Shadespire models look like they were cut off the sprue with a chainsaw, mold lines removed with an angle grinder and glued together with water-based arts and crafts paste.

Exaggeration aside, they don't look good in summary. I hate assembling that crap and avoid it like the plague.

Skitarii. Good luck if you mix up the torsos and legs before assembly... matching up tops and bottoms after the fact is soooo aggravating.

Aggressors. I had carefully cut 6 of them cut off the sprue, sanded and filed down and laid out in 6 bodies. My ol' lady came along and dumped all the pieces into a box. I absolutely didn't assemble them properly. the cables were all kinds of messed up.

Warlord games plastic infantry

where various torso and legs are paired, but not indicated as such, backpacks and equipment match specific torsos, but are not indicated as such and arms are paired, but not indicated as such

 Vaktathi wrote:
DKoK Grenadier hellgun power cables.

Metal Thunderfire Cannons. Absolutely nothing fit right.

Metal Obliterators.

Eldar Vampire flyer (this thing basically wont stay together and has huge gaps).

And a special mention for the Warmachine Khador Behemoth just because. A monumentally poorly designed model.

The behemoth almost killed me. Such a poorly designed, weighty, top heavy model that wont fit together balancing on one stubby leg. Also just assembled some of the old obliterators and those hands are just the worst.

Although if you want frustration, try assembling 12 AoS spirit hosts in one sitting. Each ghost attached by a single small point to another one and you can never get the angles right.

Nothing worse for me than the old metal chaos marine deamon prince. Hollow torso split in half with rounded edges. Evil doesn't begin to describe it. I gave it to a friend to assemble and he ended up gluing his fingers together trying to pin it.

 Jidmah wrote:
Infantry holding weapons shooting weapons in two hands...

Sweet jeebus on a trampoline this.

 Vaktathi wrote:


And a special mention for the Warmachine Khador Behemoth just because. A monumentally poorly designed model.

Whoa, that is... all kinds of special.

Addendum from earlier today.

Okay, just put together an aggressor. Accidently put body top 1 on legs 2. (I know, was watching TV while I was modeling.) That worked fine. So when I came back later I put body 2 on legs 1.

OH BOY, about a 5 mm gap on fitting that stupid ammo belt on the arm that hangs low. I had to snip one side and glue them directly together for a direct turn joint to get the stupid thing to hold. It took probably 45 minutes when the first took about 15.

 vipoid wrote:
It's like their Reanimation Protocols were programmed backwards and so they'll always try to disassemble themselves into their component parts.

I've joked about that ever since I started Necrons with their late 5th ed. codex. It'd open my case after a game night--or half the time even to set up for a game--and be greeted with multiple repair jobs. Plastic glue, super glue, neither of them work particularly well at all, and it doesn't help that you've got loads of torso-leg and arm-shoulder connections that are a combination of a small ball joint and a comparatively cavernous recess to glue it into, so you end up coating the entire ball with glue and hoping you can get enough surface to bond to to hold it in. Then you have Immortal weapons which make them stupidly front-heavy so you need to prop it up while it dries, and Destroyers you need to erect scaffolding around... Even the Annihilation/Catacomb Command Barge is an awkward model to work with.

I've heard horror stories of the Ghost/Doomsday Ark, and Tomb Blades, so any attempts to acquire those in future will be pre-built secondhand first, NOS second.

But yeah, basically, Necrons.


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 toasteroven wrote:
Anything that connects to a base solely by a thread of plastic and hope.

Like the old metal Slann Mage Priest on his metal palanquin, attached to a base by a slender plastic flight stem. Or, rather, attamepted to be attached that way until I gave up and built him something solid to sit on out of milliput.

 Valkyrie wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:
I for some reason can't wrap my head around the backpart of Valkyires,

There's nothing wrong with my backpart thank you very much!

Ehhhhhhm well i kinda can't judge that,

Would need first hand experience.
All jokes aside i fething hate it.
I'd rather redo my decimator with his shoulder pads than valkyries!

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
The Arks are especially bad.
You can tell they were designed by artists and not by actual hobbyists, because they look nice but are an absolute pain to build.

Yeah, but you get a sense of accomplishment when you've built one or a Triarch Stalker.

You know what sucks to build and you don't get a sense of accomplishment? The fething Tomb Blades. I put off rebuilding my Necron army and started Marines simply because of the frickin Tomb Blades and I remembered how much I hate them.

I keep forgetting I own a Triarch Stalker.

Well, most of a Triarch Stalker. It's fallen apart so often and had so many bits disappear I've probably got 90% of it left.

In chunks I haven't the motivation to attempt to reassamble.

Again.

Tomb Blades, I managed to do 6 and paint them afterwards, and I just can't finish the last 3! They are so spindly and such a pain to clean!

The metal hurricane bolter sponsons on the original Land Raider Crusader kit. I remember those being a pain.

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
The Arks are especially bad.
You can tell they were designed by artists and not by actual hobbyists, because they look nice but are an absolute pain to build.

Yeah, but you get a sense of accomplishment when you've built one or a Triarch Stalker.

You know what sucks to build and you don't get a sense of accomplishment? The fething Tomb Blades. I put off rebuilding my Necron army and started Marines simply because of the frickin Tomb Blades and I remembered how much I hate them.

I don't field Triarch models and don't have the desire to do so, so I'll never now.
I do know that I still have an unassembled Doomsday ark in my closet, because its such an arse to deal with I never feel like doing it. One of these days I'll build it, but there are other, less annoying models for me to build.

Penitent engines.
Great looking models but a complete bastard to assemble.

Punisher23 wrote:

 Vaktathi wrote:
DKoK Grenadier hellgun power cables.

Metal Thunderfire Cannons. Absolutely nothing fit right.

Metal Obliterators.

Eldar Vampire flyer (this thing basically wont stay together and has huge gaps).

And a special mention for the Warmachine Khador Behemoth just because. A monumentally poorly designed model.

The behemoth almost killed me. Such a poorly designed, weighty, top heavy model that wont fit together balancing on one stubby leg. Also just assembled some of the old obliterators and those hands are just the worst.

Although if you want frustration, try assembling 12 AoS spirit hosts in one sitting. Each ghost attached by a single small point to another one and you can never get the angles right.

Yeah, the Oblit hands...insane, all the little bits that wont stay on are infuriating. Havent tried my hand at any AoS models yet though.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 Vaktathi wrote:


And a special mention for the Warmachine Khador Behemoth just because. A monumentally poorly designed model.

Whoa, that is... all kinds of special.

Yup, all that weight from that big metal model is balanced on that one hip joint, and the only thing connecting that leg to the torso is a tiny numb smaller than a basic Tac marine's neck

Cool model, stuuuuuuupid assembly design.

I put one of my behemoths feet on a fake rock piece. Works perfectly, haven’t had a single issue with it falling apart

I assembled mine with the raised leg on the ground and the leg that's supposed to be on the ground back in a kicking off sort of position. Had to cut the positioning nubs off IIRC.

The finecast Techmarine was G-d awful. Not just that the pieces are stupid and spindly, but that it's really hard to tell where the sprue ends and the model begins in some places.

The Attack Bike and Land Speeder deserve special mention as well. Not that either was really that hard to assemble (despite the weird dog-leg motion required to get the Speeder's side walls into place) but that neither could be assembled all the way without leaving shoulderpads exposed enough to see but not exposed enough to paint squad/chapter markings on.

Hybrid plastic/metal Space Marine Devestator with Lascannon..........

Skitarii infiltrators.

Fiddly, fragile and a pain in the arse.
In fact not just them, pretty much every skitarii model. The antennae, tendrils and servo skulls are designed to break off.

Infuriating.

 NoiseMarine with Tinnitus wrote:
Anything branded 'Easy Build'. That stuff is gak!.

Been assembling models for over 25 years and my Shadespire models look like they were cut off the sprue with a chainsaw, mold lines removed with an angle grinder and glued together with water-based arts and crafts paste.

Exaggeration aside, they don't look good in summary. I hate assembling that crap and avoid it like the plague.

This is mine as well. The easy to build models pretty much universally have injection points in horrible places and surfaces which you wouldn't normally have to think about, that will need filing or filling on an easy to build model.

The 3rd edition landspeeder was a real bear; you had to clamp and rubber band the entire hull together to get the seemingly always warped upper and lower half together.

It’s not 40k, but the early Age of Sigmar terrain kits were the worst thing I’ve bought from them in modern times. Every angle is “modular” by cutting the kit into four wedges, so if you’re building it stock you need to connect four base pieces to make one 90 degree angle, then mount two walls and two weird dragony detail bits to the base you’ve built. And, it never lines up correctly, ever, leaving huge gaps and then pieces of the corner break off and... oy. I’m glad the newer stuff has been better, but beware when you set down to build an ophidian gate or nominous occulum.