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canadianguy wrote:
the slannesh daemon chariots

Most painful thing I've ever built in my life. Even tops building a heldrake for pain

 PrehistoricUFO wrote:

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
Tomb King Skeleton Warriors... annoying to get off the sprue without damaging legs/heads/arms and even bodies, painfully annoying to put together

Back when I played Vampire Counts, there were many instances where a shin bone or arm snapped off the skeleton sprue.

On that note, how different are the VC skeleton and TK skeleton sprues? I really thought the only differences would be some adornments/heads . . .?

the TK kit is still the pre undead book split sprue but with a khemri upgrade sprue added with the 6th ed tk book, where as VC got their own skeleton kit with the 8th book. (though VC players really should be buying the tk kit since it comes with 16 rather than 10)

My Forgefiend. It was a nightmare to try to get all the four feet to be firmly on the ground.

My 2nd Chaos Terminator Lord was a massive pain as well to get to stand, but that is kinda my fault for making a heavily converted and dynamically posed miniature on a wobbly base.

 Zygrot24 wrote:
Dwarf gyro copters of any era.

QFT. I have assembled over 2k points of every 40k army and 3 different Fantasy armies and no model every made me hate my life as much as the metal Dwarven Gyrocoptor. It was made by the devil to test my faith in minis.

 malfred wrote:
Transfers.

I agree Malfred, the worst thing to deal with is transfers. If they require exact placement transfers can make photo-etch biplane wires start to look easy.

Ya know, it does make me wonder how the kits i built 40 years ago fit together much better than some of these new ones. Back then there was no CAD or Zbrush but somehow the product was superior.
You don't need to take my word for it, many of the same 1/35 Tamiya kits are still in production. Build one and see for yourself.

Forge world DKOK. It woud be fine if the arms actually fit together, instead of having to greenstuff and bend each and every single guardsman...

The frelling dragon from "Super Dungeon Explore"....just didn't line up, good thing I have a heat gun, for shrink wrap, to make it pliable and fit.

Any two hand weapons are always a bit of a pain to glue.

the GW Ruin are another pain, they need to remold them with bigger tabs to help hold them together (the wall sections, Floors are fine).

VC skellies....built 40 of them before I just had to sell the army as I couldn't be bothered to mess about with the tiny connection points -.-

spent hours putting together the metal hive tyrant as a kid. tried again a while back and it whent together first time :/ was pretty salty after that.

and drop pods. I have nothing but utter respect to all those people out there who have 9 of them fully built.

Lord of the Feast from Hordes. Holy God.......

oh and deldar raiders. so much crap dangling off them and its a pain to line up the hull and the front so you get a flush fit.

Any Infiniti kit I have tried ever. Jotuns, ARGGGH!

I dislike the Aquila Strongpoint. While it is easy to assemble it lacks any sort of ability to customize it.

Also, I wish they had put in some more tabs since some pieces easily fall off.

The Eldar guardians back when I got into the game during 3rd edition. They were my first kit of models, and I really loved the look of the Eldar.

I bring it home with my new glue and clippers and I can get the feet torso and head just fine, but the arms.. I hate the arms for them.. I glued and had my fingers stuck together for the rest of that night, with multiple washes finally getting them apart.

 Soggy Kittenz wrote:
Forge world DKOK. It woud be fine if the arms actually fit together, instead of having to greenstuff and bend each and every single guardsman...

Sweet mother of god, someone who knows my pain.

I just finished peeling superglue, greenstuff and resin flakes off myself after putting 10 more of those fiends together. I've always wondered, maybe they're like the old plastic kits, where a specific set of arms is for each body, but I've as of yet not determined any correlation.

The first IG kit I ever built was the previous Leman Russ kit. So many god damn road wheels that are completely pointless, not to mention that the instructions are those trendy 3-D ones that are solid pictures so there's no fething way to figure out where things actually go.

I hated the metal kits for Warmahordes, the Skorne Warbeasts were a conglomeration of poorly fitted body parts and superglue. Pretty sure i never finished the heavy beast that came with the starter kit.

Nobble Blackwart and the Orc Shaman on War Wyvern

Pretty sure everyones Nobbla is broke, especially in a game like Blood Bowl where you are knocking down and turning over minis.

And the Orc Wyvern is a big metal model supported by one claw

Im not sure if I have mentioned this but:
Every damn model I have assembled with GW glue. They fall apart if you so much as look at them too hard and scraping off the old glue is a pain.
I currently have a rolling repair list for these.

I just got the Gauss Pylon and I had to use a table saw to separate the actual pieces of the model from large blocks of resin.

 Truth118 wrote:
I just got the Gauss Pylon and I had to use a table saw to separate the actual pieces of the model from large blocks of resin.

Is this a general issue with Forgeworld?

I've got a Thunderbolt fighter stashed away, waiting for the time when I feel like sawing those huge blocks of resin off.

Penitent Engines. The whole thing is this awkward metal mess where everything has to be pinned. EVERYTHING. The arms are these enormous gangly things that reach out and are connected by the weakest of ball socket joint. I've put two together and will never put another one together again. I wanted three, but I refuse to do another one.

f2k wrote:

 Truth118 wrote:
I just got the Gauss Pylon and I had to use a table saw to separate the actual pieces of the model from large blocks of resin.

Is this a general issue with Forgeworld?

I've got a Thunderbolt fighter stashed away, waiting for the time when I feel like sawing those huge blocks of resin off.

No not in my experience but it happens from time to time it seems.

For me the vote goes to Landspeeders of any sort, alongside the Carmine Dragon from FW. That last one took me an ungodly amount of time and effort to finnish, I still get nigthmares about the wings falling of every few minuts after I had put them in place.

Chad Warden wrote:
Nobble Blackwart and the Orc Shaman on War Wyvern

Pretty sure everyones Nobbla is broke, especially in a game like Blood Bowl where you are knocking down and turning over minis.

And the Orc Wyvern is a big metal model supported by one claw

This! I have the old azhag on wyvern mostly base coated now. Pins through it everywhere to hold it together. Even then, the thing tips over because it's all top heavy.

I had to set aside a Rust Forge storage container the other day. I just couldn't get it to stay square long enough for the plastic cement to solidify.

Those damn Stormboyz earned themselves special place in hell for how often they break.

 Bronzefists42 wrote:
Those damn Stormboyz earned themselves special place in hell for how often they break.

Kit-bashing them is a right pain for me as well. I don't know if their arms are a bit special, but when I put regular slugga boy arms on them, they just don't seem to hold as well. It's infuriating.

The Ork Lootas/Burnas kit annoys me. It's not hard to assemble but you only get 4 Deffgunz per box. If I wanted to field 20 Lootas (A reasonable amount for 6e Orks), without resorting to conversions, I would have to spend $125 on 5 boxes. I'm also buying spare torsos and legs from ebay to make Burnas just so I don't feel like 50% of the box is going to waste.

The old metal eldar wraithlord.

Necron MONOLITHS.. just... please god no, make it stop...

This.

Built a bunch of them over the years... never got a single one perfect.

Fortress of Redemption. Looks good, but an absolute git to assemble and get to stay together. As to painting it... gah. Working on mine tonight.

Vengeance weapon batteries. Not that hard to assemble, but they are made out a seriously inferior plastic and the detail isn't as crisp as i'd like.