Hardest model to assemble

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**Jbz`**

Chaos Helldrake.
I literally gave up. It just would not stay together

**CynosureEldar**

Old metal Eldar Wraithknight.

Oh. My. GOD. This model can eat IG rations. I thought it smart to glue one leg in the air like it was running.....................................................

**PenitentJake**

I personally found the Exorcist to be a challenge- I had to file a lot of metal to get the organ to fit the chasis. I didn't find the Penitent enigines terribly hard to PUT together, but KEEPING them together is a real challenge.

**McMagnus Mindbullets**

I'm relatively new to the hobby, so never owned any resin let alone metal.

The hardest thing for me would have to be magnus' face. I think I read the instructions wrong at some point but after glue goes on it doesn't come off. Learnt hat the hard way.

**buddha**

I like to think of this question as models I've thrown at the wall in frustration:

Old metal Lord of change (giant chunk of heavy pewter with one small base touch point at the ankle... nightmares)

Monolith. Horrible design instructions and keeping the sides together is an ordeal.

Drop pods. Someone posted earlier in 7th I assembled 7 and dear God I had a psychotic episode.

**ChargerIIC**

Ok I have to ask - what was so terrible about droppods? Of all the GW models they look like they'd be the easiest to get right. How did they screw that up?

**timetowaste85**

Reavsie wrote:
+1 to both Exalted Seeker Chariot & metal Killa Kanz

I'll raise you - old metal Bloodthirster.

The Bloodthirster wasn’t as bad as the Lord of Change. At least the BT has contact points to fit the wings on. The LoC had a thin line you had to put both wings onto. I don’t know how mine has stayed together all this time.

**Crazy Jay**

Tyranocite was the hardest for me. I thought putting 3 drop pods together would have prepared me for it.

**ValentineGames**

Baneblade.
Very poor fitting parts.
Even airfix kits are better!!!

**The Newman**

Not GW products, but the USS Arizona from Reviell. That thing had so many mis-cast parts that I eventually just threw the whole thing in the trash.

In terms of actual game pieces the Cyclops Savage was considered a rite of passage by most Skorne players. It had glue points on both shoulders and both wrists for a two-handed sword, which isn't that unusual, but the shoulder joints had molded in pins and sockets that positioned the arms wrong to line up with the wrist joints. Add in trying to get superglue in all four places at once without getting the whole assembly stuck to something else and the thing was just an awful experience.

The current GW plastic kits have generally been a breeze, although I mis-aligned the sidewalls on my Land Speeder and had a heck of a time getting them into the right positions afterward. And the Redemptor had a ridiculous number of pieces.

**Arcanis161**

ChargerIIC wrote:
Ok I have to ask - what was so terrible about droppods? Of all the GW models they look like they'd be the easiest to get right. How did they screw that up?

Having built two myself, I'd say it's a combination of bad instructions and needing to do a lot at once From what I recall, you need to glue the spires on to the top and bottom AND have the doors in place at the same time. And you need the holsters in and at the precise angle before doing this. (Please correct me if I'm wrong; it was over 5 years ago during 5th Ed)

**vaklor4**

The Mutalith Vortex Beast/Slaughterbrute. It's a literal 3D Jigsaw puzzle. It took me 2 weeks to get past one single step.

**Slayer-Fan123**

ChargerIIC wrote:
Ok I have to ask - what was so terrible about droppods? Of all the GW models they look like they'd be the easiest to get right. How did they screw that up?

The instructions aren't exactly spectacular but it's boring to put together on top of that.

Shout out to the Triarch Stalker myself. I hated that thing with a passion.

**Delvarus Centurion**

Exorcist tank there is nothing that competes with that for hardest to build, its not off a lot its completely incompatible with the immolator base so you have to cut/drill etc.

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ValentineGames wrote:
Baneblade.
Very poor fitting parts.
Even airfix kits are better!!!

The baneblade is a pleasure to build.

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ChargerIIC wrote:
Ok I have to ask - what was so terrible about droppods? Of all the GW models they look like they'd be the easiest to get right. How did they screw that up?

Trust me its so hard, you have to glue those side bits to a floating barrel fan thing, if you want it done right you have to glue them all at once which is next to impossible, buy one and try it out for lols, its so frustrating.

**Patriarch Phyrx**

3rd edition metal Tyranid Gargoyles. The stuff of nightmares.

**Venerable Ironclad**

Now this might only be because of the conversion work I did to, but the hardest model I have had to build is the Necron Ghost Ark. Multi stage kit, fiddly bits that like to brake, and you pretty much have to pant it before fine assembly; this kit has almost all the staples of an annoying build, and that's not including the 39 magnets I added to it so I can switch between Ghost Ark and Doomsday Ark.

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**leopard**

honorary mention: Bretonnian Trebuchet in metal

More recent horror, a metal Lord of Change, still not worked out how to get the wings to go on

**Slayer-Fan123**

I enjoyed the Ark myself outside the Flayer Arrays.

**Pancakey**

Ratius wrote:
Old metal Hive Guard.
Old metal killa kans.
Old metal Eldar Wraithknight.
Yea. Just no.

I still have my metal wraithknight pile!

**Hatachi**

the hardest 4 me was the Re-Seen Marauder from Battletech. Thing is Pewter with birdlike proportions, perched on one bent leg with the other held up mid stride. Both legs are multiple pieces. Ugh, that stupid thing took forever to get it properly fitted.

**dekinrie**

I've heard horror stories about the British automatons for konflict 47 I want them but can't face the fiddling with the metal

**Greywing**

Venerable Ironclad wrote:
. . . 39 magnets I added to it . . .

I like the cut of your jib.

**carldooley**

A passing familiarity with Zip Kicker makes assembling most models a breeze. My nightmare model though, is the WMH Privateer Press Skorne Desert Hydra.

**craggy**

Just going with an out of the box build its pretty damn difficult to put together an Eldar War Walker with the default load out....

**Grimtuff**

lord_blackfang wrote:
Reavsie wrote:

I'll raise you - old metal Bloodthirster.

Especially since it couldn't be pinned.

Erm, yes it could.

**Nazrak**

I feel like at least, with the larger metal/resin kits, at least you're prepared for them to be hard work, so it's less frustrating. My pick's going to be the standard plastic Scouts. Literally nothing in the kit *quite* goes together as it should. I built one lot of them and quite honestly nearly just fired the lot into the bin halfway through building.

I'd really love a new Scouts kit; one that's less faff to build and without the stupid Bo Selecta heads, but since the advent of Primaris, I reckon that's looking pretty unlikely now.

**craftworld_uk**

The old metal Eldar War Walker. Those legs!

**Marleymoo**

My picks for hardest model to assemble are the metal Thunderfire Cannon, one half of the main barrel was slightly twisted. No amount of filing down could save it and it never got put together. I guess it was just a bad cast.

The hardest model ever was the Land Raider Crusader with metal sponsors. The bolters were all individual. I literally had to wait for each bolter to set before glueing the next one. Then I gave it a couple of coats of super glue to seal them on. I never painted it in the end, it did my head in so much.

**generalchaos34**

Greywing wrote:
Venerable Ironclad wrote:
. . . 39 magnets I added to it . . .

I like the cut of your jib.

Now I wouldn't say the Baneblade itself was hard, but MAGNETIZING that beast was something entirely epic. Getting it to do all 8 variations almost seemed to require some knowledge of physics and engineering. Totally worth it at the end of the day though.

**Deadnight**

Whilst not 40k or gw, no 'hardest model to assemble' discussion is complete without mentioning privateer press' nyss hunters.

They're terrible.