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Malcador tank:



See those nice exposed tracks? Well, the light gray part is resin and molded onto the hull, while the dark gray is the plastic track links from the Chimera. Which have to be assembled one link at a time, with nothing to anchor them in place while you align the next one, and have to be absolutely perfectly aligned or they won't follow the curve of the hull properly. Which means test-fitting the entire plastic section of the tracks before gluing anything, or you will inevitably make a mistake. And if you don't get everything exactly right they won't connect properly to the resin ends and you'll have a very obvious gap.

Now, this sounds bad enough already, but because of FW's "quality control" the sides are inevitably slightly the wrong size so it's impossible to get everything exactly right. And FW doesn't give you any instructions on how to do it, you just get a resin hull and a sprue of track links.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
The old pewter Slann Mage Priests and/or Hellcannons.

The former tried to balance a weighty chunk of pewter on a flimsy flight stand, and the latter... the less about that one the better, really.

The first (I think) Slann priest was an absolute nightmare! For those that don't remember it was a huge solid chunk of White metal (frog on a throne) that was supposed to sit on the shoulders/arms of four Saurus warriors. Just to make life easier said Saurus didn't have a nice custom MC base to sit on but two standard cavalry bases with a random gap between them. Evenif you did manage to get the Saurus holding the Slann you ended up with misaligned bases which meant you couldn't rank them up inside a Saurus unit.

Oh the fun I had with that model at 10 years old!!

Space Marine landspeeder. I just hate this model, don't know why I bought two of them. One is partially assembled, then I realized all the work involved in painting it to a high quality standard and magnetizing and just said F it.

 G. Whitenbeard wrote:
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- 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).-snip-

*sniff* and me thinking I was the only one that had problema gluing the arms of the simple necron warrior and cursing those lucky SM players with their awesome weapon kits and 1 handed weapons

The Metal Gyrocopter...

If any of the parts fall off that thing ever again, I may launch it out the window.

On the plus side, it's a really nice model to look at... WHEN IT'S IN ONE PIECE.

I have to say that the metal Thunderfire cannon was a huge paint in the ass. I think it would not have been possible to assemble, period, without a dremel too.

This weekend I painted up the Necron Overlord (finecast) that I got for Christmas 2011, and it was the least pleasant GWS experience in several years. What awful craftsmanship on it, and how flimsy and insubstantial the model was. Just awful. Totally the opposite of the Night Scythe I did more or less at the same time, which was a pleasure to assemble.

Another vote for the metal SAG. Oh how I hate that model.

Pewter Warriors of Chaos Hell Cannon. Nuff said.

For some reason I always struggle getting space marine tanks to line up correctly. Hate making them.

Current, and therefore even more painful.

FW KoS, not only is it unarmoured, meaning there's no sneakily hiding joins in armour plates etc, and demands full effort green stuffing to hide the lines, but Every. Single. Spike. has to be glued on individually, and they're tiny. Also, aforementioned spikes can easily end up facing all over the shop if care isn't taken. Just taken me about 3 hours and I have about 5 done, of about 30 on one leg plus a other bunch on its boobie covering.

Le sigh.

Seriously?



Nagash, the old Lamasu, and the old Imperial War Wagon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbwPm-BgkvE

 Jonp wrote:
Another vote for the metal SAG. Oh how I hate that model.

Good call. I too have a metal SAG, giant pain.

 n0t_u wrote:
Swooping hawks.

Finish them, take them out for a game wings are off....
Put them together again play a game, wings are off............
Try to pin them, drill bit slips into thumb...
Repeat one more round and I just leave the wings off then leave them in a drawer.

Then they get Finecasted and while I like the look of the models, I won't get them as I think the way they connect to the base is just too fragile.

What would happen if you glued the finecast wings to the metal bodies?

I can't imagine doing the opposite.

The warmachine cryz iron lich overseer. It has a thin snakelike tail holding up its large upper body, and it has broken so many times while I was trying to paint it.

 Cave_Dweller wrote:
Space Marine landspeeder. I just hate this model, don't know why I bought two of them. One is partially assembled, then I realized all the work involved in painting it to a high quality standard and magnetizing and just said F it.

Now.. if you had owned some of the old metal landspeeders (especially the 1st edition one) you would be crying with joy at the ease of the new plastic ones

Even once assembled the inadequate flight stands, and the weight of the vehicle meant that those things spent their gaming lives skidding around boards everywhere like a 41st millennium lawn mower.

That and some of the old metal Fantasy dragons..

These days, some of the Infinity stuff is just ridiculously small to put together. managed to cut the hands off a Domaru thinking it was a bit of flash..

Oh man, I remember the 2nd edition Land Speeders. A friend got one, and spent a long time building and painting it. Glued it to the flight stand. Put it down on the table for its first game.

Crack.

Spent the rest of its life as a Land Crawler.

However, the amount of people claiming regular GW models makes me think not many have had the joy of putting together a vehicle or larger sized Forgeworld kit.

 Ouze wrote:

 Jonp wrote:
Another vote for the metal SAG. Oh how I hate that model.

Good call. I too have a metal SAG, giant pain.

Do you mean the newest one? 'Cause I just magnetized every point of articulation and it goes together just fine now.

Not really difficult but agonizing. So when it first came out I picked up spacemarine. Totally excited I rushed over to my friends house "Lets play!" Open the box. "How many pieces are there?" We didn't get to play for days! Lets just say basing 300+ 6mm spacemarines was a chore.

GW doesn't have a patch on the 1:72 Beaufighter kit that I built for my grandfather a few years back.

Amongsth other little nuggets of fun-ness, the joint where the wings attached to the fuselage was mismatched... the sockets were designed for a completely different shape and sized wing. And the cockpit interior was a full 5mm too wide to fit inside the plane... on a place with a cockpit that is only about 15mm wide to begin with.

My friends tell me that Kroot are a nightmare to build - something about the elbows.

PredaKhaine wrote:
Old metal Warwalkers.

I have a friend who once had a number of War Walkers. When all was said and done he looked over them and realised that he had put not a single one together in the same way. All of them were different (and wrong, we presumed).

 Peregrine wrote:
See those nice exposed tracks? Well, the light gray part is resin and molded onto the hull, while the dark gray is the plastic track links from the Chimera. Which have to be assembled one link at a time, with nothing to anchor them in place while you align the next one, and have to be absolutely perfectly aligned or they won't follow the curve of the hull properly. Which means test-fitting the entire plastic section of the tracks before gluing anything, or you will inevitably make a mistake. And if you don't get everything exactly right they won't connect properly to the resin ends and you'll have a very obvious gap.

Yeah but you brought that upon yourself. The moment I saw that kit and saw it used plastic tracks with a resin kit I knew it'd be hell, and stuck to the "my tracks are part of the sides" Macharius.

The FW Khorne Demon Prince. See all of those teeth and spikes sticking out of his armour? They are all single pieces of minute resin.

Needless to say, I didn't bother with them after the first few.

The old metal Bloodthirster haunted my youth. Strongest model in the club, and it always fell apart. I didn't know about pinning back then...

Now it's the plastic Hellbrute from Dark Vengeance. I do not know why, but I can't get it's left leg to fit no matter what I try!

All catachans:

For me it must be the Cryx Seether helljack kit. A lovely model when it is built but building it.....? To give you the general idea the torso is essentially one guge chunk of metal stuck via a slot that needs filling onto a set of tiny legs. in addidition to this the kit then boasts those huge claws attached to the main model via the shoulder joints that point straight down between vertical and near vertical. And then the spikes.... I am always reglueing these. untill i have finished painting it i cant varnish it and so it continues to chip.....

Also any of the Revell kits with tracks at a skill level of 4 or more. at 1/72 individual track links are a very bad idea, especially for german halftracks.

also the old imperial steamtank model deserves a mention here. It is in all essence a series of metal slabs that do not in any circumstances wish to be glued together. insanity ensues.

 Jonp wrote:
Another vote for the metal SAG. Oh how I hate that model.

Wow really, I just got mine of eBay and I had a blast putting it together.

For me would be regular ork boy. There fun but when you have to do 180. At one time it gets old about halfway through.

 Rainyday wrote:
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.

Had this issue with the Harrower. Nevermind trying to keep him together in the foam. His arms are bent to hell.

Though that has nothing on the Ancients of Atalan Hero from the Deep Wars Kickstarter. Giant piece of metal, attaches to scenic base by his toe. ugh.

 JoshInJapan wrote:

 Ouze wrote:

 Jonp wrote:
Another vote for the metal SAG. Oh how I hate that model.

Good call. I too have a metal SAG, giant pain.

Do you mean the newest one? 'Cause I just magnetized every point of articulation and it goes together just fine now.

The newest one is Finecast, so presumably the one right before the finest one.

Not sure we mean the same thing, though - the gun on it is so heavy I'm dubious that a 1/8th magnet in both points would support it, I've magnetized hundreds of models. Not calling you a liar, simply explaining why I don't think we mean the same thing,

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Behold me and dread...



Built 3, still have the scars...

I'm too stubborn for my own good, I built a frame, pinned it, greenstuffed it, annnnnddddd still broken.

I have a burning hate for it to this day

Empire State Troops - The sole reason I don't play Empire.

Visually they are very nice models (and great for Mordheim btw), but it is next to impossible to get them to rank up as a unit if they are armed with Halberds or Spears.

As horrible as the Nyss Hunters or Steelhead Halberdiers for Warmachine were, once I'd got through a fraught hour of glue and green stuff, they stuck together well enough and didn't give me grief.

What did was the Stone Keeper. For reference, this guy: http://www.firestormgames.co.uk/hordes/circle-orboros/10184 Looks simple, right? The problem was his left hand. It was somehow nearly impossible to glue, just Would. Not. Stay. On, and would snap off at the slightest provocation.

In Anima Tactics, Romeo Exxet's sword had the same problem. Looked like a very simple and easy join but simply refused to stay connected, and would fly off at the tiniest touch.