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Mastadon, not from like a hard to build, just a shitton of work, nothing in the kit lined up right, had to do a ton of sanding and filling to make it look good, more than any model and by several magnitudes. .

Morkphoiz wrote:
Necron tomb sentinel from forge world. 20 tiny resin legs which come in two parts each, 20 secondary legs which are miniscule, 12 body segments which you can position as you please and looooong thin antennas made from resin.


It was a frickin Nightmare to clean and assemble.
The body needed a ton of green stuff and overnight drying to hold the shape, the fiddly legs were far too thin to support the weight of the body reliably so I had to pin the body to the base.
Then i had to position each leg with tweezers in a way that looked "natural" relative to the body position and the position of the other legs.

I hated every second of it but the result is stunning. Awesome looking model.

Edit: Sorry, I dont know why dakka decided to rotate my image

I plain out refuse to build this model from the stories ive heard and seeing the components. Have two second hand, and honestly feel sorry for anyone and everyone who has built this.

compared to anything i built for KOW, 40k models are easy to build. Just know what models to stay away from *cough*Necron tomb sentinel *cough*

Necron Warriors and the Monolith are certainly in need of a new sprue. Their aesthetics hold up just fine, but the placement of where certain bits attach to the sprue is just horrendous.
And new kits, while cool, have far, FAR too many fiddly bits.
Ghost Arks fill me with as much dread as Drop pods

Also, anything Finecast.

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IanVanCheese wrote:
Necrons. Basically all of them.

Try Skeleton Warriors or Grave Guard. They make those tiny Necron waists seem like child's play...

SG

EDIT: Drop Pods are still the worst model to build in my book. Second would probably be the Magmadroth... it's a beautiful model, but very tricky to assemble.

Anyone remember the old metal Vindicator? It was probably because of my age at the time but I could never get anything in it to stick.

Other than that I can’t remember anything that is a pain other than finecast.

 r_squared wrote:
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.

Yeah, I'm about 90% finished with my first (almost certainly only) box of Infiltrators. Holy wow, what a chore they've been. And on top of everything mentioned above, some of the sprue design decisions are maddening. Take a look at these fellas. Where do you think those heads connect to the sprue?



If you guessed "precisely top center of their curved domes, between those delicate little antennae and other details; in other words, the very high point of the model and most visible spot when looking down at them on an actual gaming table, rather than, say, at the neck or some other invisible spot," then you are exactly right.

Edit: I put that image in a spoiler; it's pretty big. Sorry!

Anything resin which needs 3+ parts glued simultaneously.

The newest plastic stuff that is so spindly that you can snap pieces with any extra stress when removing it from the sprue.

Anything old enough to be both worse plastic to work on and have giant mold lines due to the age and wear on the mold.

Any new GW model.... Christ on a cracker, they make 'em inexplicably ornate, complex and (sometimes) fragile. Building the Necromunda Goliath were ridiculous (One piece... is a CIGAR! It's about a mm wide! Sticking it in the right place on the models face is just absurd...) I gave up when I saw the Esher models. Just didn't build 'em. The game remains unplayed. So frustrating.

I am a notoriously ham-fisted oaf, FWIW, and I had little to no problems with the Escher.

Seems like I should avoid Necrons, reading through this.

I hate building all models. I buy pre-built or better yet primed whenever possible. Generally building vehicles is the worst.

But even worse than vehicles are those finecast obliterators with each of those weapons on each arm being a separate piece. I've built 9 already and I'm so glad I will never have to do it again.

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

Oh, and the helbrute. Building the torso is really annoying and it always seems to have gaps in it, not to mention the effort needed to magnetize it properly.
And feth the damn power scourge.

So agree on the "Infantry holding weapons shooting weapons in two hands"

Malcador tank. In theory it's very easy to build, in practice it's hell. You have to glue on plastic Chimera tracks that wrap around the front of the resin hull and join sculpted-on track detail at both ends. The instruction sheet is about as informative as FW instructions ever are (IOW, it's a picture of the finished model and a parts list) so you have to guess at what combination and arrangement of 1/2/4-link lengths of track gets the right shape over the wheels. Then, because this is a FW kit, the resin parts shrink some unpredictable amount during casting and the distance to cover is not an exact increment of track links long. So you're either going to have a gap where the plastic meets the resin end, or you're going to have extra track length that hangs down off the wheels. And did I mention that the joint between the resin and plastic track elements is out in the open, with nothing to hide any gaps?

TL;DR: the Malcador. I've had bad parts on a particular cast, but that tank was the most frustrating design-wise.

(Finecast is , not models, so it doesn't count towards this topic.)

This thread is really killing my excitement for my Christmas plans of buying a bunch of Forge World Guard stuff...

Exorcist. I love the weight and look of it but the reassembling it got old.
Cannoness was there too, but someone recently suggested using green stuff to hold it together...

 Kelligula wrote:
This thread is really killing my excitement for my Christmas plans of buying a bunch of Forge World Guard stuff...

Don't let it get you down, read something else! You should have fun with new models if you haven't overdone the same one.

I've built 2 boxes of Primaris Aggressors, and I don't think I ever want to do them again. They have an unnecessary number of parts. And don't get me started on those ammo belts. Also, the older Land Speeder kit. Why the parts don't line up properly is completely beyond me. At least the newer one with the hull broken down into more pieces is easier.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
I've built 2 boxes of Primaris Aggressors, and I don't think I ever want to do them again. They have an unnecessary number of parts. And don't get me started on those ammo belts. Also, the older Land Speeder kit. Why the parts don't line up properly is completely beyond me. At least the newer one with the hull broken down into more pieces is easier.

I'll be honest, I've built Aggressors as well, but I didn't have any issues with the ammo belts. Are you sure you didn't get them mixed up between models?

Not going to choose anything metal or resin, too much a of a no-brainer.

One model which should be simple but is a real pain in the ass, the Deathjester.

Secondly, to follow on from an earlier poster, the old plastic land speeder. <shivers> I bought a new one recently and was dreading building it, However, what a turnaround....everything fit perfectly, what a relief.

Worst model, almost anything AdMech. Cawl himself and the Dragoons stand out as horrible offenders. The Dragoons have these incredibly fiddly leg cables that after building 3 of them I don't think I ever got right. Cawl had... the entirety of his everything.

Models I hate building the most though are anything I have to assemble 30+ copies of. I usually don't mind building, but around Tzaangor #43, shoot me.

 Kelligula wrote:
This thread is really killing my excitement for my Christmas plans of buying a bunch of Forge World Guard stuff...

Don't let it get you down too much. Most of the IG stuff is fine. LRBTs are easy, the various flyers are pretty straightforward (if a bit weak rules-wise), even the infantry isn't that bad once you figure out how to build them. The Malcador is mostly an isolated problem, the only IG kit that comes close to it in difficulty is the enclosed Basilisk/Medusa kits and trying to un-warp the thin and precisely-aligned hull pieces. But even that is mostly a matter of time, unlike the Malcador the Basilisk/Medusa parts will fit eventually if you're patient enough with getting them perfectly into shape.

For a bog standard troop choice Warriors and Immortals are an absolute pain to put together. Nothing fits right. By comparison my Rubric Marines were a dream to put in place.

The Necron Monolith is the only model I own that I've completely given up on. There's such a thin point of contact to keep the edges together that a slight misalignment means it won't glue properly, the plastic core support thing doesn't quite reach where it should and the top plate was such a pain to line up properly! Mine fell apart the first time I put it on the table and it was never put back together again....

Obliterators are similarly terrible. All those gun barrels, spikes, chainblades and other bits just fall off and get lost over time. I've taken to using my old 2nd/3rd edition ones - those things are solid as a rock!

I'm not a fan of Rhino chassis models either, somehow I tend to screw them up on a regular basis.

Honourable mention to the Dark Vengeance Hellbrute - I've put 4 of them together now and managed to get massive gaps on them in various places every time. Thank goodness for texture paint, greenstuff and Nurgle!

 Peregrine wrote:

 Kelligula wrote:
This thread is really killing my excitement for my Christmas plans of buying a bunch of Forge World Guard stuff...

Don't let it get you down too much. Most of the IG stuff is fine. LRBTs are easy, the various flyers are pretty straightforward (if a bit weak rules-wise), even the infantry isn't that bad once you figure out how to build them. The Malcador is mostly an isolated problem, the only IG kit that comes close to it in difficulty is the enclosed Basilisk/Medusa kits and trying to un-warp the thin and precisely-aligned hull pieces. But even that is mostly a matter of time, unlike the Malcador the Basilisk/Medusa parts will fit eventually if you're patient enough with getting them perfectly into shape.

That is a relief since I was looking at getting some flyers like the Thunderbolt or the Avenger.

 Kelligula wrote:

 Peregrine wrote:

 Kelligula wrote:
This thread is really killing my excitement for my Christmas plans of buying a bunch of Forge World Guard stuff...

Don't let it get you down too much. Most of the IG stuff is fine. LRBTs are easy, the various flyers are pretty straightforward (if a bit weak rules-wise), even the infantry isn't that bad once you figure out how to build them. The Malcador is mostly an isolated problem, the only IG kit that comes close to it in difficulty is the enclosed Basilisk/Medusa kits and trying to un-warp the thin and precisely-aligned hull pieces. But even that is mostly a matter of time, unlike the Malcador the Basilisk/Medusa parts will fit eventually if you're patient enough with getting them perfectly into shape.

That is a relief since I was looking at getting some flyers like the Thunderbolt or the Avenger.

Hot water, a hair dryer and pinning in general are your best tools for large resin models.

I love Tyranid models. They look cool, threatening, and unique from model to model.

I also hate Tyranid models. If a hormagaunt/termagaunt,genestealer foot or leg bends off of the base, it’s aggravating to hold the model so it glues correctly. I feel sorry for the poor souls that have had to repair a Zoanthrope.

 SkavenLord wrote:
I love Tyranid models. They look cool, threatening, and unique from model to model.

I also hate Tyranid models. If a hormagaunt/termagaunt,genestealer foot or leg bends off of the base, it’s aggravating to hold the model so it glues correctly. I feel sorry for the poor souls that have had to repair a Zoanthrope.

It was worse when the Zoanthropes were metal.

Zarakynel was a PITA, too. Even after I took the easy route it still took well over two hours to position the spikes on her leg. Yes, singular. Leg. Over two hours.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
Zarakynel was a PITA, too. Even after I took the easy route it still took well over two hours to position the spikes on her leg. Yes, singular. Leg. Over two hours.

My favorite cheat/work around replaced the spikes with small bb's.

I used cut-down toothpicks, was still horrific.

I think BBs would have been worse for me. Neither my eyesight nor my motor control can be described as 'good'.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
I used cut-down toothpicks, was still horrific.

I think BBs would have been worse for me. Neither my eyesight nor my motor control can be described as 'good'.

You just need a dot of super glue and kind of roll them into the holes, but I can sympathize on the fine motor control thing. I still can't paint straight lines to save my life.

Whoever designed the Tomb Blade kit should be fed to the scarabs.