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For me it is many of the metal figures from the Cryx warmachine faction. Some of these kits were obviously made by someone that never had to assemble them. Small metal bits with just a tiny amount of surface area. I own lots of tools, dremel etc even a decent drill press with vises so I know these models must be hellish for a beginning modeler. Many pieces are too heavy for 2 part epoxy but too small to pin even with the really small stiff wire I found at a railroad hobby shop.

The metal thunderhawk mentioned earlier probably is the hardest model to build in all of 40k. It probably takes hundreds of hours of drilling and pinning and filing to make that beast. I would not be at all surprised if most of those kits are completely unbuilt or just partially assembelled.

Valkyrie, the glass for the cockpit is Impossible to fit into place!

I have always hated putting together (Gluing) Havoc Launchers... They don't match up on the sides, they're all built askew, and it's as if each one was personally stomped on b4 being placed back on our sprues :(

Drop Pods.

TFCs.

Kheres Assault Cannons.

Landspeeders.

Metal Techmarines. (The Finecast one was a pain in the ass!)

The Stormtalons where kind of annoying.

The old metal honor guard and their stupid bolters.

any metal model that had a hand attached by itself.

Land Raiders annoy me aswell.

 iheartlargeblasttemplates wrote:
Valkyrie, the glass for the cockpit is Impossible to fit into place!

Please don't say that :*( I am getting a Valkyrie tomorrow/the day after.

For me its the DKoK Grenadiers, them tubes...

Sisters of Battle Exorcist,none of the metal bits go together straight,tons of GF work and NO instructions,,,WTF seriously/.

I have others already mentioned, but my biggest bugbear isn't even a separate part of the model.

Dante's power axe.

This thing, despite being attached to the biggest part of the mould, has broken on me SO MANY DAMN TIMES more than any other model. And that's both metal and finecast. Surely I'm not the only one?

Same as the guy on the first page. I put together 4 metal Obliterators and the weapons made me want to tear my hair out and the torsos all required major greenstuffing. Hrgbgrgrb

 ShatteredBlade wrote:
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.

My Chaos Warhound Titan has more pins in it than an NFL lineman's leg. (A lot!)

The old metal Necron wraiths filled me with inarticulate rage as well.

I had forgotten about them.

Old Necron Tomb Spyders.

Getting the legs on in any reasonable way was a bear.

Also the flash from the mould was square in the middle of the detail on the outside of the leg. Next to impossible to clean up properly. Then they'd snap off the flying stand..

Monoliths were not-nice if you wanted them perfect.

Heavy destroyer gun arms :(

Nightbringer's arms would not stay on.

Deceiver's robe-ribbons...

Occasionally i miss my Oldcrons. Then i remember ...

Worst so far, DEF the drop pod, those inards........... then doors that dont close by millimeters then ADD shoddy citadel glue..... ARGGH

stormraven was a cake walk by comparison

Drop pods, and you often need many of them, and they are hard to paint with that mutchs urface aria.

Old scrapplauncher in metal where hard.

SSC are very anoying.

Any titan?

The new necron arches also looks like hell.

 Ozomoto wrote:
Metal plastic thousand sons kit. None of the pieces fit right, so I had to use green stuff on every single shoulder. The fact that the chest was half metal and half plastic was incredibly annoying as they are super front heavy. Half the arms.guns and shoulder plates are metal, the other half plastic.

I've got another 9 on my to do list, but Im going to do everything else first. :(

(on the bright side, at least I don't have to deal with the fine cast )

Considered gluing the parts with the metal side facing the table surface, and the plastic side face up ie meaning the heavier side goes on the bottom. it isn't much of a problem if you wait until the bond has fully sealed. with a slight bit of work the TS work quite nicely. failing that use other kits (there are many which could be combined with the chaos space marine boxed set and TS heads bought from Ebay, nothing beside the head and soulder guard are unique in a TS Upgrade kit or the boxed set (when you could buy them as a boxed kit, AFAIK [as far as i know] they don't stock them here (AU) any more, beside in the upgrade packs. but the finecats chest pieces would equally work with the plastic kits. just some idea's from one converter to another

 kronk wrote:

 ShatteredBlade wrote:
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.

My Chaos Warhound Titan has more pins in it than an NFL lineman's leg. (A lot!)

Drumroll! haha! Another I've got to add Is the metal harlequins.

The old metal thunder fire cannon was an absolute monster. I also hate drop pods, both painting and assembly.

The most time consuming is certainly the Titan class models though. Just the feet portions take a few days to get right. It's a labor of love to be sure though

A lot of chaos players I know call Abbadon "Abbadon the Armless" because the metal model was so unbalanced.


some notable lines about him at my club (all of these are real!):


"what's happened Charlie? oh, right, Abbadon right?"


"hahaha I shot his arm off!"


"he can't assault me with no sword you know...."

"and he's rolling into cover! clever Abbadon... dude, you should pick him up now..."

if we are talking about my own experiences it has to be the chimera. it just laughs at you while you try to keep the parts in place with plastic glue, and when you leave it to dry, you come back to find that both track units have fallen off.

FW Armageddon-pattern Medusa: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Imperial_Guard/Imperial_Guard_Tanks/ARMAGEDDON-PATTERN-MEDUSA.html

Beautiful tank, but the entire crew compartment is made out of thin resin parts and they ALL arrive badly warped. And everything has to fit together perfectly, any gaps will be extremely obvious. That is, if you can even get the model together at all. For example, the gun has pretty much zero clearance between the hull on either side, so if you don't straighten the top hull perfectly the gun won't fit. And since it's thin resin as soon as you put it anywhere near the boiling water to fix one part the rest of it softens and loses its shape.

For extra fun, you might be a victim of FW's "quality control" and get one of those magical shrinking parts so no matter how many hours you spend trying to straighten your warped parts you'll never be able to make it work.

One of my friends got a Storm Eagle and it was a nightmare to put together due to warping and terrible instructions. For me, it's probably something metal. It's gotten better since I started using JB Weld as adhesive for them though. I'm also not terribly fond of models where the two-hand grip on the rifle necessitates gluing three points simultaneously (both shoulders and the point where the hands meet).

When I was reading this I was thinking "Gee I know there is a model in my collection that I absolutely hate and could never get to stick together", I look down at my work space and realize its half-built-ass has been literally staring at me for about 5 years straight. The model in question is the Space Marine Venerable Dreadnought. Those damn little fingers, weird leg shield things and ornaments!!! There is a spiders web on this model its been there so long.