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Whats the most fiddly model you have put together?
The ones where the pieces are small, you have to put real concentration into assembly and overall they arent very fun

For me its Necron Warriors, boy are they a pain!
Honourable mentions to Eldar War Walkers and their silly legs and any sort of marine tank commander/hatch gunner. Boy I hated those guys.

Stormsurge ankles are super annoying.

Tau Drones are by far super easy.

Malcador, no question. The tracks are a nightmare to assemble, the plastic track pieces have to be perfectly aligned at both ends to meet up with the resin track bits molded onto the hull. Even a slight error in alignment will leave a visible gap between the parts. Oh, and because this is a FW kit the parts will be warped and/or the wrong size. Have fun trying to make that fit together. I did it once, it still has a visible (but small!) gap despite my best efforts, and if/when I get another Malcador I'm paying an extra $150 to get the side pieces (which have a different track arrangement) from the Malcador Infernus and converting it.

Currently I'm working on an old all-resin Shadowsword where all of the wheels and track pieces are separate parts. It looks really nice in the end, but assembling and painting 20 wheels then hoping the tracks fit correctly is just incredibly tedious and frustrating. I suspect it will take over the title of "worst to assemble" from the Malcador once I've actually finished assembling it.

Possibly the Sisters of Battle Exorcist tanks; I for both the main parts of the organ don't fit together quite right, requiring a lot of pinning and green stuff that's prevented me from painting them (since I can't be bothered going back and finishing them and just play with most of an exorcist missile launch on top of a Rhino ). But I also love the style of the models, it's a tough dilemma.

Most commonly for me it's any model with two hands on its gun, but with the arms and weapon being separate pieces; if you just want to glue them together then it can be difficult to get everything lined up just right, but if you do anything else to work around it they take longer because you usually have a bunch of them to do. Not sure if it qualifies as fiddly, but annoying certainly.

I had a hell of a time building a Penitent Engine, ended up having to pin it but it's all metal so that's slow going, and even once I was finished the pose isn't quite right (I'm going to try to model it crashing through some masonry to make up for it). This has put me off building the other two, at least until I get a better drill.

Fantasy Skeletons for me. I got the whole VC army I was going to use, discovered that I just crushed the things in my hands trying to make them, and sold the whole thing off for a massive loss.

Drop pods are pretty bad.

Land speeders are not far behind.

Anytime you need to have 3 parts glued at the same time. Things like SM heavy weapon guys. Two hands on the gun, plus the hose to the backpack. Everything needs to be lined up, and hopefully in a position that looks good.

Hormogaunts don't have a lot of parts but they still manage to be a huge pain in the butt, then after building them you have to weigh the base down somehow because they fall forward.

The new Tyrannocyte also has very thin flimsy "legs". I haven't had to transport it but I'm worried for that day.

The old metal Ogre Scraplauncher. Never-fething-again.

Necron warriors are a pain to assemble. Whoever thought that making them with ball sockets is a good idea never assembled miniatures before. Not to mention the arms never seem to be right.

Ditto with the new terradons; they keep falling off their stand.

Raging Heroes models, their resin ones in particular. The resin they use is so greasy, even after several thorough cleaning sessions, that gluing the tiny parts together is a hellish task accompanied by a lot of swearing.

Khador Warjack. Glue seems to NEVER stick to those models. like never.

Malifaux stuff in general. The Necrotic Machine, and Yan Lo's Beard in particular.

 BrookM wrote:
Raging Heroes models, their resin ones in particular. The resin they use is so greasy, even after several thorough cleaning sessions, that gluing the tiny parts together is a hellish task accompanied by a lot of swearing.

I have broken a few of those lovely ladies limbs I can assure you !

For me the ones I hate most are the big old metal GW models, anything I have to pin with a strong rod to stop it falling apart, I know its easy but its just a task I hate to do !

Robotech RPG Tactics Veritechs in Battloid Mode and All Quiet on The Martian Front drones.

I've had some trouble getting metal Hive Guard to fit correctly-the legs always seem to be off somehow. Metal Hige Tyrants are a pain as well. The Fiddliest model I've put together so far would probably be the tiny hands of the KD:M Phoenix.

Aggravating trying to find out where which hand goes without instructions.

For it is a mix between the old Tyranid metal models in general, and the old metal chaos Giant foe WHFB. Ugh that lump of lead should never be sold let alone given to anyone with a sense of decency.
Also the metal centurions and other command elements of the Warlord Hastasi set comes to mind too.

Zvezda orcs. Big figures - lots of tiny parts, including separate hands and weapons and sometimes feet. Plastic, but not HIPS. I have yet to assemble more than the one I put together back around 2009-ish.

For 40k it was the Mechanicus Ironstrider. I had a heck of a time getting the servitor pilot connected right with the legs. No, that isn't true. The truth is I BOTCHED the assembly and then gave up on the model afterward. That bad experience also killed any interest I had in making an Ironstrider heavy Mechanicus army.

For Warmachine I hated assembling any models armed with halberds, so Cygnars Stormguard or Steelhead troops. It was just miserable gluing those bastards together that I never had more than one full unit of each.

Penitent engines are legendary

Also all of infinity... ALL OF THEM!

i hear malifaux is bad too

I'm expecting it to be this one, which makes a war-rig when assembled but came with no instructions in a box with no pictures. I'm not 100% sure which bits are rig and which are sprue yet.

Also, my original restic mantic enforcers are held together mostly by swearing and bits of skin. trying to superglue 2 arms (assuming you picked a matching pair that actually reach the shoulders on both sides) to the gun (with hands moulded to it) to the torso in the pose you want is a rapid descent into madness.

The Kheres assault cannon is a nightmare.

 larva_uk wrote:
I'm expecting it to be this one, which makes a war-rig when assembled but came with no instructions in a box with no pictures. I'm not 100% sure which bits are rig and which are sprue yet.

Also, my original restic mantic enforcers are held together mostly by swearing and bits of skin. trying to superglue 2 arms (assuming you picked a matching pair that actually reach the shoulders on both sides) to the gun (with hands moulded to it) to the torso in the pose you want is a rapid descent into madness.

I'm curious where you got that model? Are there any pictures online as well?

An old goblin spear chukka is kicking my butt. The metal isn't flat where it needs to be. I'll probably wind up using some modelling putty to make it hold together and hope it isn't too obvious.

The metal/plastic land raider crusader box.

Never fething again. The FW doors I had didn't fit as they were too small, the metal sponson hurricane bolters are very easy to put in backwards or upside down, and the metal multimelta actually snapped the pintle mount plastic because of how heavy it is.

Good god that was a nightmare

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
The metal/plastic land raider crusader box.

Never fething again. The FW doors I had didn't fit as they were too small, the metal sponson hurricane bolters are very easy to put in backwards or upside down, and the metal multimelta actually snapped the pintle mount plastic because of how heavy it is.

Good god that was a nightmare

Agreed. I actually ended up hurling it at the wall in frustration after I had glued my fingers together for the umpteenth time.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
The metal/plastic land raider crusader box.

Never fething again. The FW doors I had didn't fit as they were too small, the metal sponson hurricane bolters are very easy to put in backwards or upside down, and the metal multimelta actually snapped the pintle mount plastic because of how heavy it is.

Good god that was a nightmare

This. What a pain in the backside.

And metal models in general= assembly by swear words, fused skin, blood and tears lol.

 Sinful Hero wrote:

 larva_uk wrote:
I'm expecting it to be this one, which makes a war-rig when assembled but came with no instructions in a box with no pictures. I'm not 100% sure which bits are rig and which are sprue yet.

Also, my original restic mantic enforcers are held together mostly by swearing and bits of skin. trying to superglue 2 arms (assuming you picked a matching pair that actually reach the shoulders on both sides) to the gun (with hands moulded to it) to the torso in the pose you want is a rapid descent into madness.

I'm curious where you got that model? Are there any pictures online as well?

This is what it should look like assembled. It's from the new Devil's Run: Route 666 game from Word Forge. I expect the retail ones will come in proper packaging but mine was a KS early delivery and I now have such a large pile of unlabelled resin parts for all the vehicles I foolishly ordered (with more to come). It's 20mm (i.e hot wheels) scale - conveniently the right scale for Gaslands as well

Bretonnian metal trebuchet was a bit of a pig, a case of "and with your third hand fit this bit". Not helped by the metal refusing to accept superglue even after a whole slew of degreasing products and washing.

Grail knights, again in metal, also, just due to the small contact patches and the large amount of leverage on the bits.

Ended up pinning them, no choice really.

Not found GW plastics hard to assemble, gave up on fiascocast as far too fragile.

Some of the hardest though, 1/285th scale tank kits with individual machine guns that are sadly really obvious if you leave them off.

 larva_uk wrote:

This is what it should look like assembled. It's from the new Devil's Run: Route 666 game from Word Forge. I expect the retail ones will come in proper packaging but mine was a KS early delivery and I now have such a large pile of unlabelled resin parts for all the vehicles I foolishly ordered (with more to come). It's 20mm (i.e hot wheels) scale - conveniently the right scale for Gaslands as well

I wouldn't bank on it. I bought the retail box set from my FLGS today and it doesn't come with any model assembly instructions. Granted, it isn't that hard to figure out but still...

Thanks for the info larva_uk!

Maybe I need to give it a try as well.