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What is the hardest army to build

Probably SoB, due to the highest proportion of metal (unless I'm greatly mistaken). Honestly, 40k models are, by and large, incredibly easy to assemble. Some sculpts go together more seamlessly than others, of course. Most of my difficulties have come from SM vehicle parts warping on the sprue or the abysmal mold/shift lines on AoBR Orks, but I wouldn't say that either of those armies is particularly difficult, overall, barring the sheer number of models most Ork armies will contain for a given point value.

I have built Tau, Eldar, SM and CSM, and of those, I had the most annoyances and difficulties with Eldar.

I bought ONE single Eldar model, being a jetbike, and it was the most annoying thing to put together. It wasn't the jetbike, I've thrown together enough SM/CSM bikers to know how to do that, but for some reason the Eldar rider wouldn't stay together. I think its because their body parts are so small.

Not many armies are complicated to put together, at all. Its just about patience, and having 2 level surfaces to glue on haha

I voted Tyranids due to the large number of codex entries without models to represent them in game.

Fat_Little_Ripper wrote:I voted Tyranids due to the large number of codex entries without models to represent them in game.

Thats a valid point. I change my awnser haha xD

Dark Eldar, mostly due to the large number of finecast now. Have fun.

Edit: And the need for a 'clean' finish. At least 'crons and SM can have some battle damage on them, which can hide a few sins.

all armies are only as hard to model as you make them.

A truescale marine army is much harder to build than any other out of the box army.

5th edition Chaos Warriors for WFB. Almost impossible to get them to rank up without a crap ton of planning and test fitting.

I'd have to say that any army with metal models where you have to pin the hands is a pain. I had to do this for my Black Guard in my DE army and my Phoenix Guard in my HE army and it's a pain in the ass. Pinning 50 arms at a time is no fun at all.

The DE hydra in metal was also no fun to assemble.

40k can suck it. It's all easy to assemble.

I'd say DKOK

Specifically the Space Marine Thunderfire Cannon. I own 3, 2 of which have never been taken out of the box. I just can't bring myself to assemble any more.

Fat_Little_Ripper wrote:I voted Tyranids due to the large number of codex entries without models to represent them in game.

i have built a few tyranids , and they are a pain in the neck

hardest to build or hardest to paint? Tyranids, while they get a bit complex, are usually still okay if they get a little fudged; its a quick fix to make it look like its supposed to be that way. DE, CSM and SoB are a pain because the former are filled with pointy bitz prone to frequent snapping, and the latter because theyare still metal, and metal does not like staying glued together in my experience.

Now painting....... I don't know.....

poda_t wrote:hardest to build or hardest to paint? Tyranids, while they get a bit complex, are usually still okay if they get a little fudged; its a quick fix to make it look like its supposed to be that way. DE, CSM and SoB are a pain because the former are filled with pointy bitz prone to frequent snapping, and the latter because theyare still metal, and metal does not like staying glued together in my experience.

Now painting....... I don't know.....

hardest to build

I hate assembling Eldar guardians slightly more than imperial guardsmen. They're easy enough to do individually just time consuming and there seems to be a lot of clean up work on them.

There's more individual parts on a Guardian than it's worth in points....

martian_jo wrote:I hate assembling Eldar guardians slightly more than imperial guardsmen. They're easy enough to do individually just time consuming and there seems to be a lot of clean up work on them.

There's more individual parts on a Guardian than it's worth in points....

i'd bet

I have built every army other than Empire and Britonnia, and i must say nothing drove me crazy in trying to get things to not fall apart as badly as
Chaos Obliterator , Chaos Daemon Prince.

As for plastic, LAND RAIDER

Its a nightmare getting them to fit ( if you look at everyone's LR they are all built badly too )
because the loooong pieces of plastic are always bent.

I vote sisters, if simply for the cleanup work. All metal, almost all with mould lines running through areas of detail.

LunaHound wrote:I have built every army other than Empire and Britonnia, and i must say nothing drove me crazy in trying to get things to not fall apart as badly as
Chaos Obliterator , Chaos Daemon Prince.

As for plastic, LAND RAIDER

Its a nightmare getting them to fit ( if you look at everyone's LR they are all built badly too )
because the loooong pieces of plastic are always bent.

I helped my bud build one once, and it was a disaster

I will have to vote for the orks, but only with regards to the OLD hybrid kits (where if it had the profile of an ork boy, it was a box of ork boyz and some extra metal things)

Seems like every time you looked at the unit another arm/leg/head/etc had fallen off due to the sheer number of plastic-metal glue sites.

And if it wasn't a boy, it was all metal, so many missing parts when you are too young and inexperienced to care about pins. A special mention to the all-metal killa kanz...

Leigen_Zero wrote:I will have to vote for the orks, but only with regards to the OLD hybrid kits (where if it had the profile of an ork boy, it was a box of ork boyz and some extra metal things)

Seems like every time you looked at the unit another arm/leg/head/etc had fallen off due to the sheer number of plastic-metal glue sites.

And if it wasn't a boy, it was all metal, so many missing parts when you are too young and inexperienced to care about pins. A special mention to the all-metal killa kanz...

The Killa kanz are a pain to build