What is your most HATED model to glue / paint ?

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**master of ordinance**

Imperial. Fething. Guard. Cadians.
I must have assembled about a hundred of those little buggers and it never gets any easier. Yes, I know that they are simple models but the real effort comes from the sheer amount you have to do. Painting again and again ad infinitum as you try desperately to think that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, only to find that light is just the sun reflecting off yet more grey plastic....
Yeah, painting a massed army of bods is not fun.

**reiner**

Metal Obliterators, hands down, are the worst thing I've had to assemble so far.

**Purifier**

master of ordinance wrote:
Imperial. Fething. Guard. Cadians.
I must have assembled about a hundred of those little buggers and it never gets any easier. Yes, I know that they are simple models but the real effort comes from the sheer amount you have to do. Painting again and again ad infinitum as you try desperately to think that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, only to find that light is just the sun reflecting off yet more grey plastic....
Yeah, painting a massed army of bods is not fun.

I skewered my finger attempting to modify one of those. 5 stitches!

**jhe90**

Purifier wrote:
master of ordinance wrote:
Imperial. Fething. Guard. Cadians.
I must have assembled about a hundred of those little buggers and it never gets any easier. Yes, I know that they are simple models but the real effort comes from the sheer amount you have to do. Painting again and again ad infinitum as you try desperately to think that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, only to find that light is just the sun reflecting off yet more grey plastic....
Yeah, painting a massed army of bods is not fun.

I skewered my finger attempting to modify one of those. 5 stitches!

There more boring than space marine tactical!

**Sgt. Vanden**

At the moment? Necron Warriors. I have to bust out 32 of them by tomorrow this time.

All time? Warhound Titan.

**DaPino**

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

And the fething instruction manual tells you to glue the fething legs on the wrong side of the Ironstrider so the tubes of the legs don't line up.

**GoonBandito**

cox.dan2 wrote:
Next would have to be treads one any vehicle, they are just so haphazard to put together properly.

Really? On the older Russ/Chimera kits, I would have said absolutely. But tracks on the current Guard/Marine kits are a piece of piss to put together now.

**martin74**

For GW stuff, the penitent engine.

If you have never tried assembling Wyrd Malifiaux minis, those can be frustrating. They go together well, but, the pieces are so tiny.

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Melissia wrote:
Ork infantry.

... it just gets repetitive after a while.

This is the standard for all GW. You put together and paint essentially the same thing over and over. As SM is a SM, regardless of color. Blood Angels, Dark Angels, Ultra Marines, and so on and so on, it is all the same.

**Brutus_Apex**

I painted up two Maulerfiends and two Heldrakes. Never again...so much gold.

Also Terrorgeists are a pain in the ass to pain as well.

**Elbows**

I love old metal War Walkers from an aesthetic point. They are the bane of my existence when assembling/building them (and I did four at once!)

**Solis Luna Astrum**

It's not 40k but for me it was a tie between the Screaming Skulls Catapult and the Tomb Scorpions in the Tomb Kings Army.

**Maréchal des Logis Walter**

The god damn Chaos Defiler. So much paws aaaaaaah!!!

**carldooley**

one of these threads again?
GW wise, undead skeletons. I was going to build a Vampire Counts army because I worked at a cave at the time. I decided to get a horde army, and lost my temper with so many crushed ribcages.
Recently? The Harbinger of Menoth.

**TheCustomLime**

GW wise: I hate painting tacticals. They look good in the end but they are dull to paint up. Same repetitive lines and features. I know I could drybrush but solid line highlighting makes them pop.

Overall: PSC when it comes to assembly. Their models are a breeze to put together if you know what you are doing. The instructions are so vague it is easy to assemble them wrong. I ruined a 15mm Tiger, for example, because I put the tracks on the wrong way even though the instructions never specified certain tracks go on certain sides. And this was the only tank out of the army box I got that had specified track sculpts. Another annoying thing about the instructions is that they can be very historically inaccurate. So frustrating.

**CheZZoR**

I have a half built fellblade that has been in the box it arrived in 18 months ago because I simply cannot be bothered to straighten all of the tracks, lascannons, other parts and fill the gaps in the kit.... I've even asked commission painters/builders if they can build it for me for a fee, of course. It's hard to find someone who will build it without painting it..

**Dantes_Baals**

1. Ghost Ark. One of the few things about crons I dislike more than the dex itself

2. Fire Raptor. I suppose if the hull wasn't warped into the shape of a shoe horn, this probably wouldn't be on the list. But the warping combined with terrible instructions lands this one at number 2.

3. Dark Eldar Reaver Jetbikes. I don't think I need to elaborate on these. Those who have built these know of what I speak. Those who haven't, we'll trust ne. You aren't missing any savory life experience.

Runner up: Drop Pods. They would have been tied with the ghost arks until I figured out that things are much easier when you build them from the top down.

**jhe90**

TheCustomLime wrote:
GW wise: I hate painting tacticals. They look good in the end but they are dull to paint up. Same repetitive lines and features. I know I could drybrush but solid line highlighting makes them pop.

Overall: PSC when it comes to assembly. Their models are a breeze to put together if you know what you are doing. The instructions are so vague it is easy to assemble them wrong. I ruined a 15mm Tiger, for example, because I put the tracks on the wrong way even though the instructions never specified certain tracks go on certain sides. And this was the only tank out of the army box I got that had specified track sculpts. Another annoying thing about the instructions is that they can be very historically inaccurate. So frustrating.

Easy if dome in bulk but so boring...

**Aspects of Thom**

Jain Zar is a metal model and her arms are horrible to glue.

**buddha**

For gluing it's a hard toss up between the ill-fitting drop pod and small part madness that is the ongar dunecrawler.

**Robin5t**

Putting together a Death Jester is roughly as enjoyable as having a cage fight with a hungry bear.

**Klowny**

Necron warrior arms are infuriating

**Brujah**

Finecast in general. I hate the necessary glue and I hate having the feeling that it will come off very soon again.

Modelwise Eldartanks always needs a lot of greenstuff in their back section to have no gaps

**Lionheart713**

Robin5t wrote:
Putting together a Death Jester is roughly as enjoyable as having a cage fight with a hungry bear.

I had to build two. One of them looks like his arm comes out of the center of his back.

**SicSemperTyrannis**

Necron Heavy Destroyer Upgrades... basically everything Finecrap

**Don Savik**

My first ork trukk I no longer talk about. I was a beginner and didn't know how to paint and we don't talk about it.

My second trukk was some trukk bits on a 90% plasticard conversion. It was a hummer-type deal so it was easy to paint.

Now that I've bought a new ork trukk and started painting it.......I HATE IT. I love the model, assembling it wasn't super fun but lots of converting can go into it. There's so much obscured detail, and with how it builds you can't really paint it in that many separate pieces. I have both drivers and the wheels seperate, but with the frame idk how I'm going to attempt the engine. Luckily my orks only need 2 trukks, as I won't be getting more.

edit: it doesn't help that most people's Bad Moon trukks are 90% black with only a couple plates yellow, whereas I go full yellow on my Bad Moonz. So the internet is no help at all.

**Unyielding Hunger**

I love my swarm. They bring a smile to my face on the table. Then I put them back on my bench. Anyone want to paint over a thousand tyranid infantry models?

**Stormonu**

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

And the fething instruction manual tells you to glue the fething legs on the wrong side of the Ironstrider so the tubes of the legs don't line up.

*facepalm* Augh - don't remind me. I had to use a dremel to make new holes in the legs after I ripped them off to fix my mistake.

**the Signless**

Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
The god damn Chaos Defiler. So much paws aaaaaaah!!!

I helped a friend assemble his. . . never again. It is bloody near impossible to get the legs so that they all support the body.

**Talys**

Every big metal model

They were also my most hated models to play with!

**DeffDred**

Brutus_Apex wrote:
I painted up two Maulerfiends and two Heldrakes. Never again...so much gold.

Also Terrorgeists are a pain in the ass to pain as well.

Friend of mine magnetized 3 of them to be able to be put together in any combination. Something like 64 magnets per model.