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Old metal Hive Tyrant, Red Terror and Lord of Change were the bane of my existence.

Conversely, I have a Vampire Lord on Zombie Dragon, wasn't too bad but maybe my brain is inured to the horrors of building models thanks to the old metal monsters.

 Peregrine wrote:
Anything finecast, because you will always have to re-sculpt half the model.

What i was going to say!! Besides that,.. anything not made of plastic sucks! But even amongst plastic there are some hatefull models...

Lychguard... yeah lets glue that hand with a sword... break... again...break..again..break...again... waaaaaaaaaagh!
Any dark eldar... they keep breaking wth is up with that?

GW Buildings (ruins) OMG wtf is up with them? They keep breaking,.. tried glue,superglue from gw... might as well glue with water... Now i have superglued them to a wooden base with superglue that is ment to be used by construction workers... They have managed to survive more than 3 battles now... my hope is growing!

After assembling a metal Obliterator, I vowed never to buy another one until they were available in resin. Soooo many tiny pieces to glue into holes they don't actually fit in.

Drop Pods will be the death of me

Metal warwalkers refuse to stay together. It is their recurring mission to try to end each day in more separate componants than they started...
And the metal Blood thirster. Even pinned, his parts have so much weight they still break the glue.
Halfway through my last game, I realised I could actually move his axe arm to make chopping motions...

What about the land speeder that just wouldn't go together as the top half and the bottom half were different sizes even the Gw store manager at the time I bought couldn't help

Seekers of slaanesh...

I had no problems building my drop pods, nice and easy. The Thunderfire wasn't too bad after a spot of grinding and some strong epoxy.

Metal Thunderhawk has to be number one, each side made up of multiple metal panels that have to be glued into a box shape, meaning that has significant pressure (due to it being metal) on each corner joint from two angles, making it very very hard to pin the corner joints properly. Add on some very thick parts for extra weight, the molds not being 100% and its a total nightmare. For good reason are the kits offered unassembled.

The resin Thunderhawk as it currently stands isn't much better as the molds are in a bad way causing more than normal amounts of bubbles and warpage. With the length of the pieces and the fact that they need to be ruler straight makes it painful to get the thing together, even just offering it up without glue is an exercise in frustration.

Both the Death Guard Power Armour and Terminator Armour sets from FW were in a pretty bad state, both had lots of flash and a huge big hunk of resin on the cup that sits on the ball at the top of the legs. I wasted a major amount of time grinding out the resin for these.

From the tone of the posts in the thread, I'd really happy I joined the hobby after metal got replaced.

 sing your life wrote:
From the tone of the posts in the thread, I'd really happy I joined the hobby after metal got replaced.

Alas us Sisters players are not fully free...

Kinda worried about my idea to field nine Engines in one army now...

It's pretty trivial compared to others, but Gretchen give me trouble because of their small size. Nothing serious, but it is annoying.

 Super Ready wrote:
Daemonettes.

...it's those arms ...sooooooo, so fiddly.

You drop one on your black carpet and nothing can contain the hour-long rage-induced search which will ultimately be in vain.

Iranna.

I'm going to have to second the Slaanesh daemons. Those arms refuse to stick to the bodies and the heads never seem to set right for me. And the dang Steed of Slaanesh refuses to have its one point of contact stay glued to its base, as well. And also, the plastic daemon prince refuses to stay glued to his base for me (though this may be a side effect of his conversion).

Ghost Ark is no fun.

Sammyp91 wrote:
The old metal Daemon Prince was a nightmare, more recently Ive had trouble with Valkyries. Those door gunners just dont want to stay in there.

I named the left sponsons gunner private A-hole and gave him rules and stuff.

For 10 pts, you can upgrade your left sponson gunner to him, first time you get a weapon destroyed result, it automatically falls on said private who falls off, on a roll of 6 he survives the fall and break his legs, its now an immobile guardsman with a heavy bolter.

Hoitash wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
From the tone of the posts in the thread, I'd really happy I joined the hobby after metal got replaced.

Alas us Sisters players are not fully free...

Kinda worried about my idea to field nine Engines in one army now...

It's pretty trivial compared to others, but Gretchen give me trouble because of their small size. Nothing serious, but it is annoying.

Don't despair mate, you might get plastic models some time.

 sing your life wrote:

Hoitash wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
From the tone of the posts in the thread, I'd really happy I joined the hobby after metal got replaced.

Alas us Sisters players are not fully free...

Kinda worried about my idea to field nine Engines in one army now...

It's pretty trivial compared to others, but Gretchen give me trouble because of their small size. Nothing serious, but it is annoying.

Don't despair mate, you might get plastic models some time.

I remain hopeful for plastic models and a new codex.

I'm either the world's greatest optimist or the world's most deluded 40K player (probably both.)

Kheres assault cannon, 1 was hell and at some point i will need to assemble 5 more

oh god... all the old metal tyranid monsters were a PAIN... no accelerant back then too (at least gw stuff)... i remember having to set up stuff with blue tack, rubber bands and make shift supports so that hive tyrants would stay in place long enough for the glue to harden....

barring that... hordes simply for sheer #'s

a fat guy wrote:
Metal Bloodthirster...
It just... won't... STAY... TOGETHER....

I built that monster, it was the wings!
Talk about top heavy.
I performed major surgery and went for extra large pinning and about 1/8" into either side to feel confident.
Also a ton of green stuff to ensure a gap free join.

 Talizvar wrote:

a fat guy wrote:
Metal Bloodthirster...
It just... won't... STAY... TOGETHER....

I built that monster, it was the wings!
Talk about top heavy.
I performed major surgery and went for extra large pinning and about 1/8" into either side to feel confident.
Also a ton of green stuff to ensure a gap free join.

This.

I pretty much did the same with two pins in each wing after grinding down the attachment nub as the wings wouldn't fit onto these as was. Greenstuffed as above.

Also the old metal Killa Kans. Multiple pins again and held in a vice to set as the two body halves were warped.

I earned my pinning wings with these!

The Monolith or any of the Greater Daemons except Papa Nurgle (lawl it has no wings)

Oh, you think the Monolith isn't that bad? Try putting one together when any of the 4 bigass wall panels are even sliiiightly warped (which, with a piece of plastic that big is pretty easy). Padre got one of those and it was a complete nightmare to try to reform that panel so it would actually fit together. Oh, and I forgot to mention: The kit literally does not go together AT ALL if any of the wall panels are warped.

Big monsters with wings are a pain in the ass and 2 of the 4 Greater Daemons are no exception, and the KOS just suffers from Big Metal Model Syndrome and refuses to go together. The Bloodthirster is probably the most unruly of all of them, the wings are HUUUUUUUGE and I've yet to see someone who owns one with a fully intact whip arm.

Ork Battlewagons and killa kans. The hulls took forever to put together and the bad thing with the kans was you had to make 3 of them!

The metal Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun. The only way to build it was to get the gun, the tube, and the hand holding the tube's end piece glued together on the model at the same time without any of them falling off.

Heirophant. Anyone who hasn't done one needs to give it a try.

If anything goes then the old skaven vermin lord. It was a longvtime ago and before I knew anything about pining. He kept losing his rail and head.

 -Loki- wrote:
Heirophant. Anyone who hasn't done one needs to give it a try.

I actually enjoyed that. Maybe it's because I cheated and magnetised the limbs and tail, but the only annoying part was sticking all the little spikes on the body.

Metal Swooping Hawks deserve a special place in hell. The wings are heavy enough to fall off with the slightest breeze, and there's no 'safe' angle to position the model while the glue dries. You end up needing to hold each wing in position for at least a minute until it's strong enough. Made me really appreciate the finecast version.

 xttz wrote:

Metal Swooping Hawks deserve a special place in hell. The wings are heavy enough to fall off with the slightest breeze, and there's no 'safe' angle to position the model while the glue dries. You end up needing to hold each wing in position for at least a minute until it's strong enough. Made me really appreciate the finecast version.

And they end up so top heavy they fall over and break if there's even a slight cough in the same room.

 Chaos Santa wrote:
Wow that more reply's then I thought this topic would get.

My vote if I had one would be the Necron Ghost Ark, I'm still not looking forward to getting more of those things, especially if you put all the people in it.

It was also my first model to fall off its flying base and break most of its guns off in one game.

Oh god I hated this thing. It is the number one reason I won't ever play an ark convoy list. I haven't put a pod together, but at least that model would have larger sections. Holding together a half-warrior, in a middle piece, while lining up the connectors that hold the guns, and attaching the giant U sections all at the same time nearly made me throw the model on the ground. Twice.

I leave the guns off mine. You can't pin them, and the contact area is too small for a strong enough bind with glue alone. The kicker is that it just barely stands up on that base, woobles every which way when the table is bumped.

Everyone told me the monolith was a nightmare, but I put it together faster than most models and the only pinning needed was the large back piece near the crystal. The 2nd one I put together was only bad because one of the sprews was super warped, so I had to unbend it (that took forever to get right).

Not so much hard, but annoying as goes out to every model similar to the Trygon kit. In what part of the process did GW think it was a good idea to have 54 spikes NOT attached to the model, and leave huge indentations where they should be put so that you can't leave them off and still look fine.

It's been mentioned quite a few times already here, but metal Bloodthirster. I got him for like $40, but I now realize that this is the first model I'm going to have to pin. The wings for sure, Hopefully, not anything else, but maybe the legs to the base. Everything else seems to go on just fine except for the wings.

Pin everything on him. Trust me. The last thing you want is an arm dropping off mid game. You won't want to hold the game up for long enough to fix it back.

Do it once, do it well