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I just had the fun of assembling a Exalted Chariot of Slaanesh and was wondering if there were any kits harder to assemble than this monstrosity.

I found the Penitent Engine the worst thing ever. Even with heavy pinning and green stuff the thing comes apart if you look at it wrong. It's the only model I've ever wished actually made a transition to Finecast just because resin would be easier to assemble.

Hated gluing the stem to the back of my inceptors. Ugh. Only have 3 and I'm if I wanna go through that again. Also not 40k but the wings on my prosecutors from AoS.

Thoroughly despised building my Fire Raptor. I love, nay, adore this vehicle - it may be my 2nd favourite vehicle in the whole 30K/40K range after the Valkyrie - but you couldn't pay me to build a 2nd (or, indeed, a Storm Eagle).

I remember the early stages of it, heat bending the fuselage and dry fitting and thinking "I don't know why people are such crybabies about this model, it's not that hard" followed swiftly by fury over gaps, heavy pieces not bonding fast enough, and so on and so forth. My Warhound Titan, comparatively, was an absolute dream. Even my Fellblade - a similar sort of beast, being a resin/plastic hybrid with separate tracks - still didn't cause the frustration that this thing did. I might consider it an honourable mention though.

It didn't help that I managed to drop one of the autocannon pods' interior hatch off of my balcony when I was priming it either. That wasn't a lot of fun to retrieve. Aaah, man...

Nah, I can't think of anything that even came close to the absolute butt-frustration of my Fire Raptor. Great fun to paint though - the finished thing was worth every frustrating second.

Old metal Hive Guard.
Old metal killa kans.
Old metal Eldar Wraithknight.
Yea. Just no.

Apparently the bio-titan is the worst thing in the world.

The worst I've done is the Penitent Engine as well, although with some patience and assorted "stuff" propped underneath the arms and legs to balance it while the glue dried it wasn't *too* bad.

Edit: Special shout out to Necron warriors, which are very easy, but filing down the extra plastic on the faces after cutting from the sprue took me longer than to build the models.

Drop Pods, especially in 7E when they were "free" in a special detachment, so every Marine player had to have like 10.
I was commissioned to put some together and after about 2 of them I just said no thanks

I haven't had any bad experiences for a while, but back in the day there were plenty of metal models that were a pain due to all the weight in weird places!

 Galef wrote:
Drop Pods, especially in 7E when they were "free" in a special detachment, so every Marine player had to have like 10.
I was commissioned to put some together and after about 2 of them I just said no thanks

Yeah drop pods are awful.
I wanted a full drop pod army when they realized the model, no tanks just infantry in pods and flyers.
I only have three pods and one isn't even finished, thanks god my army wouldn't be playable in 8th !

Pentinent Engine. Between Pinning, greenstuff, and glue. It was a nightmare. I ended up making a makeshift frame around it to support it while it dried.

 Haanz wrote:
Thoroughly despised building my Fire Raptor. I love, nay, adore this vehicle - it may be my 2nd favourite vehicle in the whole 30K/40K range after the Valkyrie - but you couldn't pay me to build a 2nd (or, indeed, a Storm Eagle).

I second this sentiment, my Storm Eagle was a labour of frustrated love to assemble, and compared to some of the stories I've read about the main body war pages was apparently one of the good casts.

In terms of pure games workshop models, the old metal Necron Wraiths were the bane of my existence. The small connection point between the lower tail attached to the base and the upper tail attached to the top heavy 'body' was horrible for my younger self. I remember sitting perfectly still holding the joint together for over an hour as the glue dried, and it still pulled apart after attaching the arms and shoulder as the weight was too much...
To this day one of them has a clear plastic rod haphazardly glued to it in an attempt to stop it falling apart

+1 to both Exalted Seeker Chariot & metal Killa Kanz

I'll raise you - old metal Bloodthirster.

Toss up between a Fire Raptor and a Spartan circa 2014.

Had to use a hair dryer just to dry fit the parts on the Fire Raptor. The instructions are not necessarily sequential, I found myself confused at multiple points.

The Spartan had tracks that did not actually fit the chassis. I had to cut some off and use putty just to make them fit. This would not be as much of an issue if it was lighter, but the resin FW used to use is noticeably more dense. My arm got tired and it took several passes on what should have been a simple job.

Not complaining, mind you. I model for the challenge, no one said it is supposed to be easy.

 Haanz wrote:
Thoroughly despised building my Fire Raptor. I love, nay, adore this vehicle - it may be my 2nd favourite vehicle in the whole 30K/40K range after the Valkyrie - but you couldn't pay me to build a 2nd (or, indeed, a Storm Eagle).

I remember the early stages of it, heat bending the fuselage and dry fitting and thinking "I don't know why people are such crybabies about this model, it's not that hard" followed swiftly by fury over gaps, heavy pieces not bonding fast enough, and so on and so forth. My Warhound Titan, comparatively, was an absolute dream. Even my Fellblade - a similar sort of beast, being a resin/plastic hybrid with separate tracks - still didn't cause the frustration that this thing did. I might consider it an honourable mention though.

It didn't help that I managed to drop one of the autocannon pods' interior hatch off of my balcony when I was priming it either. That wasn't a lot of fun to retrieve. Aaah, man...

Nah, I can't think of anything that even came close to the absolute butt-frustration of my Fire Raptor. Great fun to paint though - the finished thing was worth every frustrating second.

I really didn't have any problems with mine. The main fuselage pieces had to be straightened and then it was pretty easy.



The pipework on the Bandai Y-wing was fiddly, lots of tweezer work. FW Manticore needed a frame building inside the hull to support the top deck which just wasn't strong enough for the turret. Metal thunderfire cannon kinda sucked - had all of the problems that multi-part metals have coupled with pieces that just didn't fit together properly.

 Galef wrote:
Drop Pods, especially in 7E when they were "free" in a special detachment, so every Marine player had to have like 10.
I was commissioned to put some together and after about 2 of them I just said no thanks

Building a drop pod is why I stopped trying drop pod lists.

It's very much a toss up between Drop Pod and Magmadroth

SG

 McMagnus Mindbullets wrote:
Apparently the bio-titan is the worst thing in the world.

I'd wager that would indeed be one hard model to assemble; esp if you don't put a terrain feature under the middle of it to hide a support strut. Otherwise I've heard of people drilling out the whole leg to put rods down the whole length for support!



As for my own I would say Khinerai - only because they have SOOO MANY fine parts to them. It's not so much putting them together as it is cleaning them up for assembly. Lots of thin parts on the wings and one model has a fluttering bit of leather held on with a TINY contact point (and of the two of that kind I've built both snapped off at the join area and I'm ok with what as its such a light contact point I can see it breaking very easily). Most certainly some of the most fragile models I've assembled.

Metal Throne of Judgement. Like 40 ill fitting little metal parts to that thing.

 Galef wrote:
Drop Pods, especially in 7E when they were "free" in a special detachment, so every Marine player had to have like 10.
I was commissioned to put some together and after about 2 of them I just said no thanks

Drop pods are easy to build, but a nightmare to paint.

I never did finish building my old metal hybrid land raider crusader.

Morathis tail was also so annoying.

For me my hardest was the Defiler. Compared to the defiler the drop pod was simple.

My Fire Raptor was an absolute bastard to put together. I began applying the undercoat yesterday and realised that the Avenger Cannon is ever-so-slightly crooked and out of line with the cockpit, one of those things I'm trying to ignore but it's driving me mad knowing it's like that.

I didn't align the holes properly on my first drop pod, it's still in the corner laughing at me, not looking forwards to the stormeagle.

Oddly enough my defiler was a joy, I must have lucked out there, all the ball joints are just loose enough to rotate, only issue I have is the leg plates.

Th wings on my DP are infuriating, they won't stay stuck.

Not done my self couldnt afford one but heard too many horror stories

The original thunder hawk gunship, in the wooden crate

The bio-titan is indeed a horrible thing to assemble.
The legs being too weak to support its own weight has already been mentioned.

Another great aspect of it are the rows and rows of extremely small spines that have to be attached all over the model. About 62 spikes in total.
Each one of those little bastards needs pinning into place, to stop them from being accidentally brushed off later (if you lose one of those, chances are you're never finding it again). Some of the spikes are barely larger than the pin you'll need to drill into it.

Drop pod for me

pm713 wrote:

 Galef wrote:
Drop Pods, especially in 7E when they were "free" in a special detachment, so every Marine player had to have like 10.
I was commissioned to put some together and after about 2 of them I just said no thanks

Building a drop pod is why I stopped trying drop pod lists.

I forgot drop pods.

Not difficult but really boring. Building and painting six was awful.

My fire raptor was a challenge, but I'd build another one before building any more iron circle bots. I'd planned on the full unit of six, but just two nearly broke my resolve.

I've just built three taurox primes. Not a difficult kit to build, but very dull. Boredom nearly stopped me reaching the end.

 JamesY wrote:
My fire raptor was a challenge, but I'd build another one before building any more iron circle bots. I'd planned on the full unit of six, but just two nearly broke my resolve.

I've just built three taurox primes. Not a difficult kit to build, but very dull. Boredom nearly stopped me reaching the end.

Just wait till you have to build 8!

Malifaux has this little (shorter than 1 cm) Chihuahua that has a separate paw and tail piece that has to be glued on. I hate that dog so much,

The Taurox was annoying. All these extra parts that didn't add value.