What model is the biggest pain in the butt to put together?

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**rothrich**

So I just finished my first Necron ghost ark. It wins my award for the biggest pain in the butt to put together. I have put together an painted so many different kits its silly but none was as big a pain as this. My least favorite models to put together are as fallows
1. Ghost ark
2. Ork Trukk
3. Doomsday ark
4. Storm Raven Gunship
5. Thunder Wolf Calvary

What are your top five?

**Rustgob**

I really enjoyed putting the Ork Trukk I have together, strangely. A lot of it's construction made sense to me, but I do love it's little 'common sense' vehicle design. The chassis is expecially lovely.

As for my worst model to put together?

Probably a metal/plastic Shrieker Jetbike when I had one many years ago.

I did not know the wonders of pinning.

**Desubot**

TFC /thread

personal anti favorite, Fire warriors.

this thread again lol

**Ferrum_Sanguinis**

Stormravens from my experience are TERRIBLE, nothing holds together and starts coming apart way too quickly.

Just finished building 9 Obliterators and while their bodys are fine, attaching all their little guns and blades to their hands was aggravating.

**pwntallica**

I have built a few TFC, both the old metal ones and the new finecast ones, and it wins hands down for me. A close second is the old land speeders, for the same reasons Ferrum_Sanguinis stated for the Stormraven.

**Nevelon**

Drop pods hold a special place in my heart. A bitter, angry place.

**kronk**

The fiddly bits that go on the inside of a drop pod.

All of the 4-part pistons on my Warhound Titan that goes on each "toe" where you have to cut 2 pieces from each piston set to the right length or it won't fit, but cut too much and they won't line up at all...

**zephoid**

3rd edition Wraithlord. Oh god, the unbalanced metal pieces combined with the tiny joints. Darn thing came apart all the time until i cut it apart and reposed it so the model doesnt look horrid.

**anonymou5**

Nevelon wrote:
Drop pods hold a special place in my heart. A bitter, angry place.

I hate Drop Pods so much I now only buy them preassembled off of Ebay.

**Harriticus**

For me, the metal Keeper of Secrets was quite the struggle....

**captain collius**

Deamonettes

**dreamakuma**

Pentient engine

I had to build a frame to hold it in place because it was too top heavy and pinning just wasn't working. when it broke i threw it out.

**Avatrass**

Nobody mentioned land speeders yet? The main part is hard to bend...

**Tiger9gamer**

Bikes...I hate bikes.

**DeffDred**

Old Space Marine Landspeeder.

3rd Ed. Hive Tyrant.

That's all I can think of that gave me a hard time.

Maybe the new Daemon Prince. Only because his wings don't match all the arm sets.

**Angelnoob**

Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:
Stormravens from my experience are TERRIBLE, nothing holds together and starts coming apart way too quickly.

Just finished building 9 Obliterators and while their bodys are fine, attaching all their little guns and blades to their hands was aggravating.

I gotta agree with you on the Obliterators........I have 6 myself and putting those little guns on those dudes is quite ridiculous......theres gottttta be a better way for them to mold that.......I can only imagine how many times those things are going to fall off.

Also landspeeders arent the hardest thing in the world to assemble after putting together one or two.......but the design in general is poor......the fact that you have to pretty much bend and squeeze the plastic to get it together is kinda stupid.

**Tod**

Drop pods
The base keeps felling apart

**bit81**

Has to be bikes for me ork bikes are an utter pain

**Nevie**

Lovely to hear about drop pods. I just got my first two unassembled....

**Vortrey**

Yeah, definitely drop pods. After a half hour of fiddling with it I just never assembled the inside and glued all the doors shut xD

**dreamakuma**

bit81 wrote:
Has to be bikes for me ork bikes are an utter pain

I'm interested. what's your issue with ork bikes?

**GimbleMuggernaught**

My old metal bloodthirster. I think it was a miscast, because the wings didn't fit on properly. It also didn't help that they were super heavy, and even with a pin in them they kept falling off. I finally got it built last week, after much chopping and extra pinning... after 8 years.

**bit81**

dreamakuma
they are really just pains in the butt to the point where I have alarge ork army and yet still only 3 bikes in it

have had them come off the stands so had to cut holes in the stands to put the tyres thru and had one where the arm would not marrie up and hold the handle at same time may have been a miss cast but eveerything that couldhave went wrong when putting them together did and even hated painting them it was just an all and all bad experiance which I wont repeat even if they are useful in the game

**Chancetragedy**

I'm surprised so many people have trouble with drop pods. Outside of basic marines, that was the easiest thing I've ever assembled. And I've done 3 bought at different times. For me the hardest thing was a ghost ark or space marine land speeders. I have 3 land speeders and they all came with the exact same problem. The top part you put on with the cockpit divider were all corkscrewed and I don't have a heat gun to easily untwist them. So I had to pin and over glue the crap out of the Inside. By my 3rd one I had it down to where I didn't need to green stuff a gigantic gap.

**Ferrum_Sanguinis**

I've heard that the instructions for drop pods are wrong/backwards on some points. Is this the main problem???

**Monster Rain**

Before the Ghost Ark I would have said Drop Pod.

But... Ghost Ark.

**Thatguyhsagun**

Drop pod. Love the theme of them, built one, and right about now I wish I had just ripped out the middle nd called it dread drop pod.... Maybe then it would close

**EmilCrane**

My first chimera (one of the old ones) absolutely nothing fit together I think it was a miscast but I had to bend and swear to get it to fit together.

Also any old imperial guard tank with those annoying road wheels

**Fafnir**

Although I have no experience in the specific kit, I'm going to go out on a limb and say the old metal Thunderhawk. I'm sure better men than me have died trying to put such a thing together.

Although, from personal experience, my vote has to go to Ghazzy (metal). Big ol' Ork just did not want to stay in one piece for the longest time.

**ShatteredBlade**

I've said it once, I'll say it again. The Penitent Engine was probably the most difficult model to put together simply for how much pinning I had to do.