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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 03:47:46
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Numberless Necron Warrior
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So I was thinking about this and wondered what my fellow Dakkaites think is the hardest model to put together?
Since I only have limited knowledge with the armies I have I was wondering if there was a model that you just thought was the worst to put together.
Also if after they are together how well they stay together is a big factor too.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 04:16:51
Subject: Re:Whats The Hardest Model
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Infiltrating Broodlord
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Space marine drop pods have a special place in my heart.....I will never buy a new one unassembled again. Trying to stick the 5 fins together and lining up the bottom plate and top engine thing while keeping all the doors lined up was a dark day in my model building career.
Never again.....
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 04:19:37
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Insect-Infested Nurgle Chaos Lord
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Metal tomb spider
Monolith, if you want it perfect.
Old Talos
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The Viletide: Daemons of Nurgle/Deathguard: 7400 pts
Disclples of the Dragon - Ad Mech - about 2000 pts
GSC - about 2000 Pts
Rhulic Mercs - um...many...
Circle Oroboros - 300 Pts or so
Menoth - 300+ pts
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 04:56:00
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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The old metal thunderfire cannon. Never built one myself, but it's the only mini I know that could take sane, reasonable people, and turn them into curse-slathering maniacs.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 05:02:36
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Archmagos Veneratus Extremis
On the Internet
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Penitent engine. Top heavy, metal, and dozens of smaal points of contact that require pinning.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 05:19:20
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Focused Dark Angels Land Raider Pilot
West Chester, PA
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Metal Sammael
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 05:39:44
Subject: Re:Whats The Hardest Model
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Agile Revenant Titan
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Carnage43 wrote:Space marine drop pods have a special place in my heart.....I will never buy a new one unassembled again. Trying to stick the 5 fins together and lining up the bottom plate and top engine thing while keeping all the doors lined up was a dark day in my model building career.
Never again.....
I usually enjoy building models, and my brother hates it. So we made a deal, I'll make his models.
Then my brother turns around and buys 3 new, unassembled drop pods.
Curse him.
Me and my friend were joking...
Prison warden "if you can build this drop pod without any flaws but tonight you may have your freedom"
Prisoner" YES!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!
6 hours later...
Prisoner"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
'throws drop pod into prison wardens face and escapes.
Moral of the story: there's only one thing drop pods are good at... Throwing.
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I do drugs.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 05:43:12
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Regular Dakkanaut
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From what I read the manta is supposed to be a nightmare.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 05:55:46
Subject: Re:Whats The Hardest Model
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Douglas Bader
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Anything finecast, because you will always have to re-sculpt half the model.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 06:09:44
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Been Around the Block
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According to my friend it is the metal wraithlord, or from my brother it is the old metal hive tyrant
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 06:24:09
Subject: Re:Whats The Hardest Model
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Chalice-Wielding Sanguinary High Priest
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Daemonettes.
...it's those arms ...sooooooo, so fiddly.
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"Hard pressed on my right. My centre is yielding. Impossible to manoeuvre. Situation excellent. I am attacking." - General Ferdinand Foch |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 06:43:25
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Ancient Venerable Black Templar Dreadnought
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Ailaros wrote:The old metal thunderfire cannon. Never built one myself, but it's the only mini I know that could take sane, reasonable people, and turn them into curse-slathering maniacs.
This!!!!! I pinned that metal beast and put it on a stand for good measure... evil infernal device, to this day I still curse.
The metal sponsons for the LR crusader was the true nightmare: you line up all those ammo feeds to all the guns and get it all to go together... I just pinned the guns to the ammo box and made a pivot point through the box: it saved my sanity.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 07:30:07
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Ladies Love the Vibro-Cannon Operator
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The metal Thunder Fire Cannon.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 07:50:24
Subject: Re:Whats The Hardest Model
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Excellent Exalted Champion of Chaos
Grim Forgotten Nihilist Forest.
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Metal thunderfire. Older pewter+ Plastic kits and metal Elves/ other dainty jointed models.
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I've sold so many armies. :(
Aeldari 3kpts
Slaves to Darkness.3k
Word Bearers 2500k
Daemons of Chaos
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 07:54:13
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Waaagh! Warbiker
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Penitent engine, my nightmare.
Built a frame for it to rest on out of popsicle sticks, pinned it, SOLDERED IT, and it STILL broke, twice.
I didn't even keep the bits after the second one I had broke. I think it carries a curse
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 07:58:25
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Calm Celestian
Windsor Ontario Canada
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Excorist tank.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 08:01:36
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Dakka Veteran
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Tomb Stalker from Forge World.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 08:20:58
Subject: Re:Whats The Hardest Model
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Pulsating Possessed Space Marine of Slaanesh
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I've been fairly lucky, the worst I've had is the weapons/arms on my Noise Marines. Getting both metal arms to line up with each other and the plastic torso took some doing.
That does exclude some of the conversions/kitbashes I've had to do though. Building and attaching wings to my Sorcerer generated a special kind of angry.
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CSM/Daemon Party
The Spiky Grot Legion
The Heavily-Ignored Pedro and Friends
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 08:36:16
Subject: Re:Whats The Hardest Model
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Andy Hoare
Turku, Finland
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Nightbringer. Because that scythe was apparently meant to never be assembled I just converted the bastard into a nurgle daemon with wings and sword.
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"Eagles may soar high, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." - Lord Borak
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 11:29:49
Subject: Re:Whats The Hardest Model
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Morphing Obliterator
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Carnage43 wrote:Space marine drop pods have a special place in my heart.....I will never buy a new one unassembled again. Trying to stick the 5 fins together and lining up the bottom plate and top engine thing while keeping all the doors lined up was a dark day in my model building career.
Never again.....
This. If someone offered me free one I'd have to think about it. Also SM heavy weapons I just can't seem to get everything to line up and stick together.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 11:45:49
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Servoarm Flailing Magos
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Penitent engine. The sisters do not build things to last. It's like a one use war engine. "She'll be dead after one game anyway!"
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 12:07:52
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
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ClockworkZion wrote:Penitent engine. Top heavy, metal, and dozens of smaal points of contact that require pinning.
soooo many pins.
I am going to go for the old WHFB maurader giant. Getting his tree trunk and hand attached to the arm requires some major pinning. I used 3 pins made of coat hanger and it still broke Automatically Appended Next Post: Peregrine wrote:Anything finecast, because you will always have to re-sculpt half the model.
and once it breaks you are truely screwed
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 12:48:46
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Loyal Necron Lychguard
Netherlands
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I wanted to mention the same thing. It was terrible!
Most glue won't work decently and all.. those.. little.. feet!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 13:01:55
Subject: Re:Whats The Hardest Model
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Imperial Recruit in Training
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The old metal Daemon Prince was a nightmare, more recently Ive had trouble with Valkyries. Those door gunners just dont want to stay in there.
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Speed Freaks 1000 pts 2 wins 1 loss
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 13:03:52
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Tough-as-Nails Ork Boy
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For me it is the old metal havocs.
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World Eater's 3rd Company-1650 pts |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 13:22:45
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Lone Wolf Sentinel Pilot
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As a few posters have mentioned, the Penitent Engine brought a new meaning to the phrase 'Glass Cannon'.
Every single joint had to be pinned or the whole thing would break apart. Even the epoxy resin I used was only a stop-gap solution.
Ended up soldering the damn thing together.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 13:29:55
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Shas'ui with Bonding Knife
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It will probably have to be one of the large metal kits. I remember having a hell of a time with my old tomb spider's legs and getting my obliterator's weapons to stick to the arms. Fine cast (although people complain about quality) has really made building these kits much much easier.
I always hated putting together basic troops though. Its not that they are difficult - they are just extremely annoying. I put together 12 fire warriors yesterday and it was a brutal experience. Their mold lines are terrible so I spent an hour hunched over just running my knife along the edges off them.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 13:30:43
Subject: Re:Whats The Hardest Model
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Numberless Necron Warrior
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Wow that more reply's then I thought this topic would get.
My vote if I had one would be the Necron Ghost Ark, I'm still not looking forward to getting more of those things, especially if you put all the people in it.
It was also my first model to fall off its flying base and break most of its guns off in one game.
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They told me I had too many guns, I disagreed. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 13:31:53
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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[DCM]
Procrastinator extraordinaire
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I always found that the metal Hive Tyrant was the worst model I had ever made, full of gaps, didn't fit properly and at the time, didn't know what pinning was so many a curse word was said that week.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2013/08/09 13:51:17
Subject: Whats The Hardest Model
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
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DE raiders are easy to build but impossible to keep whole. All those thin little bits break every time you put them in the case
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