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my hardest model to assemble is any 1/35 tank with individual track links. my biggest headache one is a dragon 1/35 m4/a1 sherman with links and side attachments separate. so for each track link its 3 pieces plus ading the next link. have had the model for years and look at the mostly assembled model then the links and shudder. I find all gaming figures i have tried to be fairly easy.

Def the Necron TombStalker. Every Leg consists of 2 and the body of 12 free moving parts. Everything is resin. You will glue your thumbs together and cry for help.

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Necron-Canoptek-Tomb-Stalker

 Grimtuff wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Reavsie wrote:


I'll raise you - old metal Bloodthirster.

Especially since it couldn't be pinned.

Erm, yes it could.

 Delvarus Centurion wrote:

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ValentineGames wrote:
Baneblade.
Very poor fitting parts.
Even airfix kits are better!!!

The baneblade is a pleasure to build.

No...
If it was done by a professional model company it'd be a dream.

I'd like to give a special mention to the harlequin death jester. Not that hard but getting his collar in place without cutting it in 2..

But yeah the storm eagle is like waging a war on the resin. I need thumbscrews, no really I did.

I'm sure people have worse stories but I had a hell of a time with the old metal Astroath the Grim model.

Deadnight wrote:
Whilst not 40k or gw, no 'hardest model to assemble' discussion is complete without mentioning privateer press' nyss hunters.

They're terrible.

Well this is a 40k general section

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Reavsie wrote:


I'll raise you - old metal Bloodthirster.

Especially since it couldn't be pinned.

Erm, yes it could.

Now that is quality humor!

 Amishprn86 wrote:

Deadnight wrote:
Whilst not 40k or gw, no 'hardest model to assemble' discussion is complete without mentioning privateer press' nyss hunters.

They're terrible.

Well this is a 40k general section

And a lot of other people have mentioned non-GW products. And yes Nyss Hunters are terrible to assemble.

Forest Dragon!!!
Pin that tail, the arms, the neck or the head... Anything. Every single piece is painfull way to the abyss of the frustration.

(Only the tail its 3 pieces... The body 2... And the neck another two pieces... And the arms and feets the same. Ugh)

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Reavsie wrote:


I'll raise you - old metal Bloodthirster.

Especially since it couldn't be pinned.

Erm, yes it could.

See, I thought you were going in that direction but thought you were better than loading up the old pun gun.

Fire Raptor was a challenge, but it was doable.

I have one of those Chaos Lords of Slaanesh on a Daemonic mount laying in the box, given up after several attempts of the pieces just not.fitting.together.

The FW Plague Hulk was a nightmare because it was cast poorly. So while the kit itself is really simple, there's a large square in the bottom where the Defiler legs are supposed to go, and that's where mine had a huge lump of extra resin. Couldn't just cut it off because it was on the inside of the cavity, and I'd risk damaging the model. I had to mine that resin chunk out bit by tiny bit and it was so annoying. Perhaps moreso because of how simple and straightforward the model SHOULD be to build.

It would say anything that is finecast, cuz they are all terribly twisted and you can never get it all to allign correctly.

That per say dont mean they are hard to assemble but you spend more time reshaping then you do gluing and that is frustrating.

 FrozenDwarf wrote:
It would say anything that is finecast, cuz they are all terribly twisted and you can never get it all to allign correctly.

That per say dont mean they are hard to assemble but you spend more time reshaping then you do gluing and that is frustrating.

I'm in agreement here. Just got 20 Dark Reapers and a few finecast upgrade packs, and its all a pain in the ass.

Hmm...for metal models the Old Steam tank. That thing took like a whole bottle of glue and a thing of zip kick to get together.

As for plastic...ork truckks and drop pods. I built one of each and decided to buy pre built or pay my buddies to build em.

Worst kit I've put together? Got to be the Armageddon pattern Medusa siege gun from FW.

I had to heat and bend back all of the fighting compartment pieces, they were so badly warped. The rear door was such a tight fit I had to file it down to fit and the internal parts did. Not. Fit. The instructions were useless too.

Mine has a wobbly cannon but it's OK - it can fold down for storage but Holy christ was that kit a load of crap.

Drop pods are a pain in the ass cause if one bit of the center consul or any of the frame uprights are a little off, then the entire model is not going to go together correctly and its hard to fix that if you mess up.

That said the only model I looked at and went no thank on was when i bought an exorcist and decided to just make an immolator instead. Way to much metal for my taste.

 FrozenDwarf wrote:
It would say anything that is finecast, cuz they are all terribly twisted and you can never get it all to allign correctly.

That per say dont mean they are hard to assemble but you spend more time reshaping then you do gluing and that is frustrating.

This is the truth. Eisenhorn was a pain in the a** with all the bubbles and fitting his front to his back.

I saw the Exorcist earlier, and while more labor intensive than some models, it wasn't really that hard to build. Here's one for a refresher for those of you who didn't get PTSD from building them:



The metal Chaos Dreadnought on the other hand was a nightmare. Mine got the "fleshmetal" treatment with green stuff to help keep the thing together.

Guess a few people did the same thing based on the design for the current Helbrute basically being the same idea of fleshmetal and a Dreadnought.

Actually, now that I think about it, a lot of the old metal models where a pain that I would only inflict on my worst enemy. The mold would wear out unevenly and parts would sometimes end up shrunk so you'd end up with mismatched plugs and holes where nothing quite goes together how it should, and that's assuming the parts were molded correctly in the first place.

GW's larger metal models were so bad that I've actually come to the conclusion that the studio paints the resin masters instead of actual cast metal models. If anything it'd explain why their Penitent Engines haven't fallen apart yet.

FW blood thruster wings were a pain in the ass.

 Skawt wrote:
FW blood thruster wings were a pain in the ass.

Metal wings of all kinds where a pain in the ass to be honest.

The only plus side is you could bend them as you see fit to repose them.

 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

Yep - drop pods get my vote.

Thinking of plastic models, I have to give Tzaangors my vote. A lot of fiddly bits that don't always want to slot all the way into their positions, or will shift the second you let go. Also thin poles that break easily don't help any either(looking at you Tzaangor Enlightened).

Also - raiders are a huge pain to build...all these dang spikes and everything is fragile.

 Xenomancers wrote:
Also - raiders are a huge pain to build...all these dang spikes and everything is fragile.

Leave it to Dark Eldar to have the models designed to punish you for building them, eh?

Deadnight wrote:Whilst not 40k or gw, no 'hardest model to assemble' discussion is complete without mentioning privateer press' nyss hunters.

They're terrible.

Yeah, I just got a box for 50% off a few months ago, and I'm so nervous about putting it together that I haven't even opened it yet.

The hardest for me so far as I remember has been either the Boomhowlers kits or the plastic Necron Warriors. Metal models can take forever for the glue to hold them. And I can't put together the Warrior's arms without gluing them to my fingers stronger than the torso.

FrozenDwarf wrote:It would say anything that is finecast, cuz they are all terribly twisted and you can never get it all to allign correctly.

That per say dont mean they are hard to assemble but you spend more time reshaping then you do gluing and that is frustrating.

Reshaping failcast is easier then metal, unless bubbles leave out a section of it. Metal models (which used a lot of metal molds) often had gaps that required filling.

The new Beast of Nurgle is like a jigsaw puzzle designed by a madman.
Utterly impossible to build without instructions.

The main two models that gave me trouble when building were the metal Hellcannon (how hard is it to cast two halves of a cannon so they they're A) the right size and B) fit together? Apparently the answer is 'very') and the metal Slann Mage Priest, though the latter wasn't so much difficult to build as it was impossible to base without either forgoing the flying rod altogether, or building a custom base around it for support.

Whoever decided that a small, thin stem was sufficient to hold aloft a solid chunk of pewter was probably on many drugs at the time.

the plastic death jester is by no means as hard as most old metal models, but i still found it incredibly annoying. Trying to get the arms and shoulders in place is just so difficult.

I haven't assembled one myself but the Dark Eldar FW Tantulus looks like a psychotic episode inducer. Too many snapping hazards.

Awesome model though.