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So I was making some Termagants today and I think the exact same thing every time I make a model.

"Gee i wish i didnt have to remove all the mould lines"

I know that with the newer kits those mould lines aren't too apparent, if there at all. Unfortuantly I tend to take the cheaper route, namely ebaying 2nd hand models.

But it's just one of those things that is a must for me. I hate finishing a model and seeing these lines jutting out from it, but on the other side of the coin god do i hate cleaning them all off!

So what is it for you? That one part, or parts, of the hobby that you just wish didn't need to be done.

 flukezor wrote:
So I was making some Termagants today and I think the exact same thing every time I make a model.

"Gee i wish i didnt have to remove all the mould lines"

I know that with the newer kits those mould lines aren't too apparent, if there at all. Unfortuantly I tend to take the cheaper route, namely ebaying 2nd hand models.

But it's just one of those things that is a must for me. I hate finishing a model and seeing these lines jutting out from it, but on the other side of the coin god do i hate cleaning them all off!

So what is it for you? That one part, or parts, of the hobby that you just wish didn't need to be done.

Spending money.

Mould lines, hands down.

Second would be actually assembling the models. Love painting. Love playing. HATE BUILDING!

I think another one that should be up there with mould lines is a finecast model you havent put together before, trying to work out what is meant to be a little bit jutting out of the model and what is rubbish. Especially difficult on spikey models.

Mould lines and having to make everything look dynamic and not stale. I love assembling and converting stuff, just hate having to clip a good pair of legs apart so it doesn't look boring!

My biggest hate-on for the hobby is, without a doubt, transportation. Putting everything in expensive foam-lined boxes. Lugging it to the car. Driving to the gaming establishment, hoping no one stops suddenly in front of me. Lugging it all out to the store. And then doing it all in reverse.

So much time, money and dropped models. Where's my teleportation device?

Basecoating and getting the first layer of red onto my BA is without a doubt the most annoying part for me. It just gets tedious after awhile. Finishing them and detailing them I don't mind so much.

 Badablack wrote:
My biggest hate-on for the hobby is, without a doubt, transportation. Putting everything in expensive foam-lined boxes. Lugging it to the car. Driving to the gaming establishment, hoping no one stops suddenly in front of me. Lugging it all out to the store. And then doing it all in reverse.

So much time, money and dropped models. Where's my teleportation device?

What that guy said all the way !!!!

Yep, mold lines (I haven't seen any improvements in reducing them yet!) the ones on bloodletters fingers are particularly annoying at the minute! And totally, transportation, its soooo expensive, and 'something' always breaks...

That, and, storing terrain, that's hard work!

I hate it when parts just do not fit correctly.

Like the old metal-hybrid SM Devastators.

100% agree on mold lines. I love building, love painting, despite how slow I am.


My gawd, I hate mold lines.

Definitely the mold lines. No doubt about it.

2nd to that, drilling gun barrels.... I know they can cast it. I've seen them do it. grrr.

anything that's not playing the game, hate building the most though

 PotentiallyLethal wrote:
anything that's not playing the game, hate building the most though

Luckily for me it works pretty well the opposite way around; I like to model and paint, but dont really play the (horribly unbalanced) game. I can see how a player that doesn't like the paint and modelling side of things is getting the short end of the stick though.

Email companies about missing parts and fixing miscasts.

Gluing small parts.

Removing hard to reach mould lines.

Mould lines but only on Privateer Press plastic kits

 sing your life wrote:
Mould lines but only on Privateer Press plastic kits

My God is that the truth! I think they must lay awake at night thinking of the worst possible place they can run the lines, usually through some highly detailed parts.

Buying army cases sucks, so does trimming mold lines. I also dont like priming, im hoping to take care of this by switching to airbrush primers instead of rattlecans

After mold lines... its got to be dealing with the latest over-powered list. Remember when you could build a decent list with character and good looking models that would be fun to win or lose with... now its a race to build the cheesiest list faster than everyone else, crush some people then move onto the next list.

For me its those hard to get mold lines, and sanding resin. I always get too aggressive when I sand anything without realizing it.

 Son_Of_Serica wrote:
I hate it when parts just do not fit correctly.

Like the old metal-hybrid SM Devastators.

This. If I spend a lot of money on a kit, it should fit. Thankfully, new kits tend to be much better about this.

For me it's finding a mold line I missed after its all painted.... removing the lines I don't mind too much, it's missing them that gets me!

I handle a lot of 2nd-hand models, and I hate hate HATE dealing with caked-on CA ("Super" my butt!) glue.

Cleaning and washing resin bits and pieces is pretty obnoxious. Especially when you have the tiny, fiddly bits or the giant flat surfaces.

It's one of the things (in addition to the costs) that has put me off buying a Forge World Titan.

Motivating myself to start on building and painting is what I hate the most. I have so many ideas that whirl around my brain that when it comes to starting on any of my boxes of models I get put off by the immense workload in front of me. Also in my own opinion I'm quite a rubbish painter so that also destroys my motivation before I even start. Once I get going I can usually manage fine so its not all bad.
Second thing I hate most is the social aspect, being a recovering agoraphobic with social anxiety issues I hate the fact I need a second player if I want a game of 40K. Makes it very difficult for me seeing as a lot of my (very small) social circle have no interest in the hobby.

Removing mold lines. Sometimes i have "free hobby time", and will not enjoy it exactly because of the mold lines i will have to remove...

1. removing mould lines on fiddly bits. take for instance, arms. There's a bloody nasty and annoying mould line, it will stick out, but cleaning it up without making any damage.... that's going to kill time.
2. smoothing out something that should be one single solid piece. I have yet to actually assemble stuff that's made of multiple parts that really ought to be a single piece. Anything I do somehow always makes it worse, and I don't have the patience to sit there for 3 hours while I carefully glue everything together, spackle it up, and then gently file it down, respackle, refile, respacke and refile until it gets smooth.
3. choosing color scheme and laying down the first colors. I'm terrible at picking out details and how to paint them and the effect, etc. I'm absolutely dreadful at it, and typically opt for a monochrome across the surface. I feel like I'm getting too fancy and ahead of myself once I pop out more than three shades of the colors I've chosen for the model.
4. tweaking the final details when finishing up painting. One wrong dot here, and it's ruined. Not adding a dot and it looks unfinished. Making sure all the dots line up just right so that the light all seems to be coming from the same angle... complete a squad, set them up.... well then, I guess they're at the disco club.

1. Removing mold lines
2. Priming models with spray cans (need outdoors)