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For me, it was the ancient Epic Capitol Imperialis. I bought it from my local GW years ago (in 1992!), impressed by the model and the rules. However, my excitement turned to ash - I had an utter nightmare building this model.

For those who have worked with it, you'll know that the casting of the model is lopsided and a pain to put together and needs huge amounts of putty to fill in the gaps as well as the fact that it was just a massive lump of lead. Take this along with my, at the time, relative inexperience and you have a recipe for frustration. The side panels didn't sit on the tracks quite right, the roof didn't line up, the front panel looked off, the rear panel just wouldn't sit without looking wonky. Eventually I lost it and took a hammer to the front panel (partly out of frustration and partly to try to hammer off the huge amount of superglue and milliput on it that just wouldn't budge when I tried to leaver it off with my knife). I swear, I used up half a tube of superglue on it before I gave up in disappointment!

I was young at the time and, even now, assembling the thing still gives me no end of trouble.

LRC with metal Hurricane Bolter sponsons. That was over 10 years ago and I still shudder to recall what a mess it was.

More recently, I bought 4 used Fiends of Slaanesh. Once they shipped, I discovered all but one had their fiddly little back legs pinned and glued backward on the model. Took about a week of alternatively soaking and prying to finally get them to come off.

Necron Warriors - just for the sheer, mind numbing repetativness of it.

Metal hurricane bolters from the old LR Crusader kit

FW Tomb Stalker - the legs....THE LEGS!!!!!

Ghost ark. It was a pain in the arse to assemble and because I wanted to use it for tournaments, I glued it. Oh, how "fun" it was to actually paint it afterwards. Oh, and it's an absolute nightmare to move around in a game. Skimmers shouldn't be that long ><

Any of the Skorne metal Titans. The torso & legs don't fit together too well and there is no good way to pin them.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
So, What is the ONE model that you hate to put together, paint or just look at because you loath it.
For me it is a Tie between the Rhino Chassis or the Crisis suit.
The rhino is just so bland to build, it is a box, A metal box.
The Crisis suit, I have had to build so many of those im just tired of looking at them.

Landspeeder. The freaking think looks like a shoe and is a @#$% to put together. It never fits.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Ghost ark. It was a pain in the arse to assemble and because I wanted to use it for tournaments, I glued it. Oh, how "fun" it was to actually paint it afterwards. Oh, and it's an absolute nightmare to move around in a game. Skimmers shouldn't be that long ><

Oh god yeah, forgot about that one. I ended up basing mine on a flyer base using a small piece of 5mm clear plastic rod instead of the stupid skimmer "needle" they provide with it - much more secure.

 Bat Manuel wrote:
Any of the Skorne metal Titans. The torso & legs don't fit together too well and there is no good way to pin them.

Having put together many of them, best way is to put the legs together, and then roll green stuff around the inner edges and smoosh the torso on, and then mark up the green stuff to look like flesh.

LRC sponsons the metal ones. I modified the design by mounting the bolters direct to the ammo boxes and drilled into the boxes for the pivot point and attached the shield directly. Those ammo feeds were a mess to line up and just looked bad.

Thunderfire cannon was a big lump of metal with heavy pieces that had to be pinned. I made up a base for it all to sit on since I had no confidence it would hold together.

Reaver Titan. Both took more than a month for both.

UGH!

The heirophant is up there. Ended up just posing the damn thing in mid-jump (all the weight is resting on the pins) to avoid the leg bending issue.

Pretty much every GW tank. I have an absolute bear of a time trying to keep the things nice and square when I glue them together... I usually need to do some heavy weathering to cover up the blemishes (or just decide to not care.)

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
Reaver Titan. Both took more than a month for both.

UGH!

Ah man I forgot about that one.

Trying to get the body sit on the legs was bad enough but the Chainfist arm wouldn't stick or the stupid shoulder pads.

I loved the model but it remains unused and unpainted to this day.

The metal Cryx Leviathan is the bane of my existence. I've been working on and off at it for months and still haven't figured it out. The only position where all the legs and arms fit on the model at the same time leads to the stance being wide enough to completely straddle the base. The legs are so spindly that there's no way only two of them can support the weight.

Drop Pods they're cool but I hate putting them together and painting.

Chaos Warhound titan. The legs are done but the upper body exterior/interior door parts were refusing to line up properly so I have a pair of titan legs that are well built and have given up on it for the past 5 years.

Terradons... The old metal ones.

I know, let's suspend a hunk of pewter on a flying base above the ground and as if the center of gravity wasn't high enough, let's glue a head, two big wings, two legs and a long tail into impossible small connection points on this skinny pteradactyl body.

I had almost 9 of them and they were almost always just bodies on flying bases... I tried metal rods but that didn't help so much except the metal rod wouldn't shear off the body.

Damn, sure are a lot of metal models mentioned here. Am I the only one who enjoys a good pinning session?

Anyways, on a complete 180 it has to be the metal hive tyrant, I put that thing together before I knew how to pin. My god that thing was top heavy.

You're going to laugh but I hated putting standard (non-clip) tactical marines together, they're annoying and boring to make.

The eldar fire prism, such a pretty model... but oh god....

V1ND4LOO wrote:
Damn, sure are a lot of metal models mentioned here. Am I the only one who enjoys a good pinning session?

Anyways, on a complete 180 it has to be the metal hive tyrant, I put that thing together before I knew how to pin. My god that thing was top heavy.

Finecast certainly has some faults, but holy god are finecast models easier to put together than metal models. Just simply lighter, easier to bend, easier to glue, and rarely "self-disassemble" like some old metal models.

Worst for me:
- Metal Dwarf Gyrocopter (Big hunk of metal on top of a small flight stand)
- Necron Triarch Stalker (It takes three hands to put the cab bit together in any sort of good looking way)
- Metal Necron Wraiths (Top heavy with a single small attachment point in the middle of the long spine)
- Necron Warriors (SOOOO many curse words said while trying to glue the gun arm to the body, left arm to body, and left arm to gun AT THE SAME TIME)


On the other side of the equation: Necron Doom/Nightscythes. Absolutely the easiest model to put together. Three parts to the top half, three parts to the bottom half. Slap them together, everything snaps into place. Put one more piece on the bottom and one more piece on the top, add some guns, and boom, you're done.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
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For me it is a Tie between the Rhino Chassis or the Crisis suit.
The rhino is just so bland to build, it is a box, A metal box.
...

old or new Rhino? The style is a much more 'chunky' and interesting shape.The old one was weird because the 'top' and 'bottom' hull pieces were identical piece... basically each was two sides of a rhombus, and attaching the other bits helped define 'up' and 'down' for the main hull: You attached appropriate front plates to add a driver's vision slits, extended front, etc., then added a ramp piece to the same slope (but reversed) on the back. Bottom got basic flat hatch covers, top got more interesting hatch covers and turret mounts.

The main hull had side pieces that didn't really 'lock' so it's possible to have the treads aligned improperly. One of mine is a bit off.

The new kit is much nicer, with a more interesting main hull that isn't tow identical angled pieces and significantly more detail.

For models I had issues with, the all-metal Carnifex did not make me happy.

Oh oh, the new Necron Immortal kit. On the box, they have nice smooth shoulderpads. Put the model together, and you'll find there is actually an obnoxious gap between the two halves. Unfilled, the models look pretty terrible. I don't mind greenstuffing when I have to, but on 20 infantry models...yeah, I hated it.

The last version of the LRBT was probably one of the worst kits I've ever put together. The treads...dear god the treads.

Had a crap of a time building Devastator's when i first started, I remember getting so much glue on a lascannon arm that I pulled off so much skin, it looked like he had a battle-damaged shoulder.

I can't decide which I hate more, metal models or finecast.

Behold me and dread...



Built 3, still have the scars...

 sarpedons-right-hand wrote:
The Sherman Firefly's from the Open Fire! boxed set. Small, fiddly and slightly bent.... The StuGs went together very well though...

I found the fireflies to be really easy; it was the regular Vs that you had to shave a little bit here and cut a little there for. The gaps on my Vs are too big for liquid green, but too slim to fill well with putty.

The Nyss Hunters Mercenary unit from WM/H. The archer models aren't so bad, the sword wielding ones are painful. The joints are very thin, and very small so I was afraid to use the Dremel Stylus to pin them. A lot of pin vice work later, my hands were sore, and I still wasn't happy with the models. Prior to that, it was probably the Angelius for my Legion Army, those wings sucked.

 derek wrote:
The Nyss Hunters Mercenary unit from WM/H. The archer models aren't so bad, the sword wielding ones are painful. The joints are very thin, and very small so I was afraid to use the Dremel Stylus to pin them. A lot of pin vice work later, my hands were sore, and I still wasn't happy with the models. Prior to that, it was probably the Angelius for my Legion Army, those wings sucked.

I've assembled four units of those Nyss Hunters so far. I've got a fifth one waiting to be built right now as well.

Update:

I forgot: Eldar Guardians!

How many parts per figure = 11 including base.

They are supposed to be cheap, so you need many of them.
It was painful.

Every single Fire Warrior arms.

god i hate these things.

Also repairing broken tau ankles.

 AduroT wrote:

 derek wrote:
The Nyss Hunters Mercenary unit from WM/H. The archer models aren't so bad, the sword wielding ones are painful. The joints are very thin, and very small so I was afraid to use the Dremel Stylus to pin them. A lot of pin vice work later, my hands were sore, and I still wasn't happy with the models. Prior to that, it was probably the Angelius for my Legion Army, those wings sucked.

I've assembled four units of those Nyss Hunters so far. I've got a fifth one waiting to be built right now as well.

You are far more dedicated than I am. I was done with one, even if I come back around to Mercenaries, it'll probably be a unit I buy pre-assembled in the future.