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For me it is undoubtedly the drop pod. So much that I twerked my list from a full drop pod to an "hybrid" list, with half drop pos and half rhino/razo. I still think it looks goods, but what a stupid model to glue and especially to paint !
When GW released it, I was so happy ! I wanted a full drop pod force. What a naive I was
What for you ?
Oh, and the chimera is close second, but not for the same reasons: it lacks a detailed and sculpted interior. It got me surprised and very disapointed.

Assembly may be the Exorcist. I know it's old, I know it's full of giant chunks of metal, but I've put together some pretty obnoxious metal chunks in my time and the Exorcist's organ is far towards the obnoxious end. Also some of the metal panels come warped and have to be bent back into shape without deforming the iconography.

Flesh hooks onto tyranid warriors, rest of the kit is find... but damn! THEY DON'T EVEN FIT!!!!!

 godardc wrote:
For me it is undoubtedly the drop pod. So much that I twerked my list from a full drop pod to an "hybrid" list, with half drop pos and half rhino/razo. I still think it looks goods, but what a stupid model to glue and especially to paint !
When GW released it, I was so happy ! I wanted a full drop pod force. What a naive I was
What for you ?
Oh, and the chimera is close second, but not for the same reasons: it lacks a detailed and sculpted interior. It got me surprised and very disapointed.

First whats so annoying about the pod since its all plastic and will create excellent bonds with the right glue? But my most hated one is probably the metal Thunderfire cannon, why couldnt it have been plastic

2nd edition Warwalker to this day that model gives me nightmares. Nice load of weight held by two tiny ball joints in tiny legs.

Metal avatar of khaine, I don't know if it is just a degraded old mold but I have had 3 of them from different auctions and they never stay together and the joints bulge outward on both sides when they are meant to be flat. The shoulder pads on the body part make it hard to file the joints flat too. Also hard to pin because it is metal.

Well....
Krios Venator. Such a crazy, misfitting kit....
Scyllax, or: Try to transport the killersquidds.....
Drop pod.
Valdor. Still trying to figure out how the tracks would fit......
Painting:
Aegisline. Because after the 3rd one its starting to get dull.....

Build is easy.. But skitari rangers etc feet are sooo tiny tonglue to a base.

I hate building drop pods. So much

An old metal bloodthirster. Those wings just don't want to stay up.

There are quite a few models that rub me the wrong way in some way or another, including the new model for kharn. the pose, the oversized chains with weights instead of hooks and those tassets feel wrong.

But they're all individual models. GW flyers on the other hand is an entire line of models that all look bad. The design rarely makes any sense even for a fantasy setting. But more than that, they all look like they should be bigger and were shrunk, except not uniformly. Other models may not suit my taste, but their flyers look distinctively like toys.

I can't help but see this, especially with the space marine flyers.


or this

Roknar wrote:
There are quite a few models that rub me the wrong way in some way or another, including the new model for kharn. the pose, the oversized chains with weights instead of hooks and those tassets feel wrong.

But they're all individual models. GW flyers on the other hand is an entire line of models that all look bad. The design rarely makes any sense even for a fantasy setting. But more than that, they all look like they should be bigger and were shrunk, except not uniformly. Other models may not suit my taste, but their flyers look distinctively like toys.

I can't help but see this, especially with the space marine flyers.


or this

...Razorwing, Crimson Hunter/Hemlock?

The razorwing is fine. The hemlock still looks kinda goofy depending on the angle. The neck needs to a bit longer.
The valkyrie looks great but that dates back since before flyers were a thing so I'm not counting that.

Stormsurge ankles, Tau Firewarrior antennae, and the Y'vahrah wings piss me off a lot.

Ankles make it hard to pose the thing well, the antennae fall off all the time, and the wings are so frail I could sunder it with a single word.

I hated painting the Ghostkeel. It's a subtle but hard model to paint because of all the little nooks and crannies. If I hadn't made sub assemblies it would have been near impossible. Drones are boring me and my Tidewall's novelty has worn off on the last piece and its starting to feel like a slog.


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The only flyers in game I like are the Valkyrie and the Corvus because both look like plausible vtol craft and are. I like the FW barracuda since it also looks like an actual fighter in dimensions.

Possibly the penitent engine for assembly.

Painting maybe the drop pod (interior).

The original thunderfire cannon, it's not even close. That metal monstrosity was a horror to assemble

 amanita wrote:
Possibly the penitent engine for assembly.

Painting maybe the drop pod (interior).

i found the Pen engine easy to assemble after the fourth one. by the eighth you're a pro....

Anything metal that needs assembly unless it's like one arm. Next would have to be treads one any vehicle, they are just so haphazard to put together properly. and third would be spiky chaos bits or ork deff dreads with all the sharp pieces.

Dkok. They look great but you need tweezers to get the shoulder pads in place

 Banelord300 wrote:

 godardc wrote:
For me it is undoubtedly the drop pod. So much that I twerked my list from a full drop pod to an "hybrid" list, with half drop pos and half rhino/razo. I still think it looks goods, but what a stupid model to glue and especially to paint !
When GW released it, I was so happy ! I wanted a full drop pod force. What a naive I was
What for you ?
Oh, and the chimera is close second, but not for the same reasons: it lacks a detailed and sculpted interior. It got me surprised and very disapointed.

First whats so annoying about the pod since its all plastic and will create excellent bonds with the right glue? But my most hated one is probably the metal Thunderfire cannon, why couldnt it have been plastic

Fitting the interior into the drop pod. I had to leave mine out because it wouldn't fit together with it in, after I had gone through all the trouble to paint the harnesses and such.

I'll add the old broadsides. Those metal guns would never stay attached on the back unless you welded them in place (and would often tip the model over if you didn't position them right).

I don't know about other folks, but putting together Imperial Land Speeders is no fun either.

Ork infantry.


... it just gets repetitive after a while.

I really enjoy the modeling aspect of the hobby, so very few models are ones I hate to assemble. Gun to my head? Eldar (including Harlie and DE) bikers, specifically their arms. I will even go so far as to only have one hand on the handlebars, and do a bits swap to have the other hand wielding a weapon of some variety, just so I don't have to do the fiddly dance of plastic-glue-then-adjust-before-it-dries that always winds up smearing the model.

Painting? I just hate painting in general. Like, all of it. I really hate trying to paint challenging colors, like black, white, yellow, or red. (I try to stick to blues, greens, greys, browns, and purples wherever possible.)

Gluing -> Metal wood elf dragon. This bastard makes drop pods look like a walk in the park.

Painting -> Anything that involves paints with an inferior quality such as yellows

Necron Arks are pretty nasty.
Aside from that I'll jump on the drop pod train.

To put together...
The old Marines with metal las cannon.
You always either end up with the power cables not quite meeting the backpack or if it did the left arm was too short...

That or the original half metal commander farsight. Large chunks of metal on suits with tiny ankles is asking for trouble GW.

Same goes for the metal railguns on the old broadsides

Drop pod, hands down. I have to constantly adjust and shave off bits of plastic to make sure the doors fit and close securely.

Funny, drop pods never bothered me that much so I guess I must have got lucky in that regard...

Trying to magnetize my wraithguard so they could use D - scythes, Wraith cannons and the melee variant with ghost axes and force shields were at nightmare!

Ironstrider. A million things to break off, paint behind etc and I have 8 of the damn things.

of the minis I've put together the worst was the defiler.

The old metal Bloodthirster. That thing fell apart every chance it got.