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What is your most failed mini(failed painted converted etc)?

Probably one of my RTB001 plastics from late '88.
They didn't really come with assembly instructions for how to attach the back packs or gubbins.
No longer have it.

Haven't worried about it since around 1988.

That's why I tend to plan things a bit more now and do less off the cuff stuff.

The worst thing I have ever tried to make was the old Revell 1/72 model of a P-47 Thunderbolt.

Currently the model available is a new tooling, but until recently they were still putting the one from the 60s on the shelves. The only redeeming feature was that the transfers were good as in all modern kits. They rest of the kit was god awful. It was the wrong shape, full of gaps, covered in massive ugly bolts, sink holes and tiny pathetic landing gear that didn't even come close to filling the holes for the undercarriage, locator pegs that didn't fit, weedy blades on the airscrew, etc.

I tried to build it, but sometime you just know a kit isn't worth the paint. And half built it went in the bin.

My first Tau models, my army has white Armour with black exhausts, mechanics, etc. and I undercoated it with black rather then white to get into all the holes/details not realising that to then paint on white armour would layer the paint so thick that the model details were lost and the white did not have that crisp look, it took forever to strip it and start again...

I also accidently glued my FW backpacks on upside-down with the first unit which I then decided to continue that mistake with the rest which I felt gave them a bit of character...

A long time ago, maybe 1990. I was painting a Battletech Hunchback and I just couldn't get it the way I liked it. I would paint it, hate it, and then leave it in a cup of paint thinner overnight to strip and start over again the next day.

Eventually I had stripped it so much that it had paint down in all of its detail and everything else was stained a shade darker, like pewter. I just decided that looked fine, picked out a few details and called it done.

My first Chaos biker earlier this year... I didn't realize that Krylon white primer would be so thick. It ruined all the details and made it pure hell to paint.

Using those coloured balls from train scenery that are used to turn basic trees into orange and apple trees. I used them as studs for a heresy armour conversion a few years back. Whatever they are made out of they melted when I sprayed the undercoat on them.
Looked excellent for a week or so then all the studs caved in leaving a great mess.

Those old push-fit space marines that came with the starter paint set years back. Oh dear god.

Yeah my leman russ didnt come with instructions so when i built it it looked like a mini land raider! After i gave up on IG for a while and collected blood angels and with a bit of work i turned the leman russ into a land raider(a little smaller though)

First time building a drop pod *shudders* stupid, 11 year old brain!

The ones I regret quite a bit were I bought and built some assault marines. I hadn't yet gotten the codex (or even really understood what the codex was for, yet). So I built them in totally random ways, weapons wise. 3 had plasma pistols, one had a power fist, the other had a power sword.

Not the greatest fiasco in the history of model assembly, really, but I do look on them with regret. I should probably strip them and fix those mistakes, but frankly I find assault marines of such limited value I can't imagine pushing back working on useful models in progress to do that. Which is part of why I regret it so much; that I know I'm really never going to fix them.

I'd class 'Fail' as 'not happy with at the time it was done'. Some of my early stuff was pretty nooby, but I've always been pretty happy with how stuff I've done has come out, for the time I put in on it.

The only times I've been really unhappy have involved Purity Seal and language that'd make a sailor blush and/or spontaneously vomit. I now only use airbrush varnishes.

The first Battletech minis, which came out with the boxed set. Horrible casts, because they wouldn't fit right.

This was only topped by my "painting" efforts. No cleaning mold lines, using the wrong kind of glue, no priming, using enamel paints cause I had them on hand...

I see if I can rustle one of those up and will post a pic as a warning to everyone else :-)

Cheers,


IK-Painter

Pretty much my entire LOTR collection from the ages of 11-15, boy I was not good at painting back then.........

My friend decided that he would give a single terminator a cyclone missile launcher and a heavy flamer and a chainfist.........failmuch??