Hay all

I was just thinking as i finished a build(one of 14 i have finished in the last 9 weeks) that i never want to build that kit again you know the kit's i mean. poorly fitting parts terrible instructions and they just cause more hassle than they are worth....



Has anyone else ever thought the same thing?

Dragon's original M1A2 kit; it was a bear to build.

Dragon's Scud Launcher. What a POS. I have seen some really great builds of this kit but it is a monster...
Shaun

Everything I've ever built. Doesn't matter how good it is, I don't want to go over old ground. There's only so much time, and so much to left to do ...

Hi,

I am not fast at building and eyeshights are failing, there are several kits in my opinion

Dragon M4A1 (so many parts for a small tank)

Dragon E-100 (easy build big parts! except that the photoetch for muzzle break took me 1 week to re-scratch, can't fit at all, same for the terrible muzzle brake. This tank was also "cursed"...it took me 4 re-sprays and washing off 4 times with thinner to get the rite color, never have I had so many "mis-fires"

AFV club sturmtiger (every conponent = many small components to assemble to make an item)

Revell Katyusha and sherman calliope (still intact, nearly fainted after looking thru the sprues)

Sorry if I complained too much

Musicwerks

AERs or Maquette´s (even Dragon had this) SU76. The crappiest kit I ever built. I suppose I could also include Airfix´s 1/700 VASA .. swedish boat. Thats the only kit I ever threw out, rather than go fórward with it.

Ive built the Scud launcher ... and it is a bear ... but theres a part of me that would build it again .... and pimp it out a bit, this time. One thing about that model ..... of all the models on my shelves at home, that is the one that gets the most attention from friends and visitors, who take the time to look through my finished models. When complete, its a striking model.

For me it has to be Trumpeter's Osorio. Poor fit, imaginary parts placement, chunky detail, and tracks from hell. I've been working on it off and on for a year and a half, and it's still not done. I last lost steam when I tried to put the tracks on and found out they don't like to bend and don't hold paint at all.

'AFV Club M548. Some of the parts were like trying to fit a large women into a small frock
it was savage....

Say it ain't so! I have that one in my stash and was kinda looking forward to building it as an OIF vehicle. Sigh... I think I need to give myself time to heal after the Osorio, so the M548 will stay in the stash longer...

Anything by Italeri.

I second Rob on this, but will also include any of the older Abrams by DML. Unfortunately, I still have 7-8 left with AM kits for them so I'm stuck.

Pretty much anything out of the eastern bloc countries released before 2000.

Some of the companies have gotten considerably better but you still have to check reviews.
I thought I got a great deal on a Polish armored car in 1:35 for under $5.00. It probably cost me several years off my life due to frustration!

The one good thing is it forced me to learn several scratch building techniques.

This kit had it all....poor fit, soft detail (where there was detail) some odd cigarette type burns in the plastic it very obvious places, more flash than kit parts, some small parts couldn't be differentiated from the mold blocks - you literally had to carve the piece out of the mold attachment point.

Cheers,
Charles

hmm..
1/35 Nimix vietnam monitor kit.
Full resin, high price/all bend, and all you can think off was wrong with that kit.

Dragoin M4A3E8. The HVSS gave me fits and I could never get the hull to sit right. Tamiya Panther A (old kit), just a box 'o poop. The AFV Club kits always need a lot of dry fitting and shaping. I always want to build two of those, just so I can get the second one right.

Maquette Valentine. Something about brittle plastic. On the plus side, there was enough plastic in the box to make two kits. Unfortunately the extra plastic was in the form of flashing, on EVERY part!

DML M256 MLRS, the kit itself is pretty good but the rocket pods are the pits. The don't fit in the launcher...it's a mess

Rounds Complete!!

Tauro A7V. Torture!

Agreed.....so much flash, mould lines, poor fit. Wore out 2 sanding sticks and used 1/2 tube of putty before I put it back in the stash for later.............MUCH later

It ranked right up there with a hobbycraft Bradley I tried to build a few years ago and threw out.

Dragon's T-80BV... Totally unaccurate and very bad fit. Oh yes, Trumpeter T-55 series. I hate that ABS plastic! Best regards.

José.

The Italeri LVT-(A) 1 Alligator I'm building right now... It's an easy build, yet I hate it inexplicably.

Hi,

Heller Souma S35... I am still having nightmares...

(lower hull was warped... flash... fit... oh, the horror...)

Gray

Legends Merkava MK4-total nightmare!!!! God I hate that kit, the massive resin upper and lower hull slabs were warped and took ages to correct. Every major assembly had a huge resin pour block that required a lot of effort to remove. And after all the paint and heartache with the resin, came the ball and chain links............

The Emhar Mk IV Male.
Getting the parts to fit together ( you have to trim and sand just to get contact surfaces for the glue!) is a challenge, but I'm building it to be a medal winner. My normal build rate is 4-6 kits a year but I have been working on the Mk IV a little bit at a time for 3 years.
A big problem is that so much plastic card and multiple putty layers are required at every joint I've wound up sanding off all the rivets on the kit. So, once I get the tank to be one cohesive unit, I have to look forward to placing a thousand or so Grandt Line rivets!
If you have ever stopped halfway through a build because it becomes evident that it would be easier to start over and scratchbuild the whole thing yourself, you know where I am.
But it's me or the kit, and the kit is not going to win!

Well, for me, pretty much the majority of them. With the exception of 1/48 and 1/32 F-14s, and now DMLs sFH18's (which I love and have two more to build) I will probably never again build any of the kits I have in the stash. I am a 'one-time' build type of modeler. With the exception of the above two, I don't see much point in having the same kits done multiple times (even if in different markings or colors).

Rob

That'd be mine too. It's not just the massive gaps at the edges of the pieces that require lots of filling (I built it back in the Squadron Green putty days so those rivets were obliterated) but those God-awful tracks and pins! The pins would tear up the tracks, no glue would hold them together and smaller gauge wire just fell out of the tracks because they were so oily. IIRC, I ended up tying them together with black thread! Then, I found that when the darned things was displayed where sun could hit it, the tracks dried out and broke down.

God, I hate that kit.

Matt

Any 1/35 kits from Revell. I find it strange that quality of the aircraft kits they put out at the same time as the armour kits are way ahead in terms of mold and fit. The quality of their kits like the Pzh2000, Kajapa, Luch,Fuch is like well

Heller H39 in German markings seam in the 2 part hull at the drivers hatch made me very angry. Maquette 38 -t all the turret armor was bent had to scratch build the turret and tracks killed me. Im no master but at least give a guy a chance

I have a questions.. its stupid of course, but, what does flash mean? You say the kit is horrible because it has a lot of flash? I don't know what you mean.. please enlighten me = )

Flash is excess plastic in a thin layer around the parts on the sprue which often happen on older kits and poorly made molds.

My kit from hell is italeri's pak 40.... its time to stop living in the past (after comparing to dragons, and even the old tamiya i'm still dumb struck) and shame on revell for producing a simmilar kit based on the same 30 something year old kit.

Cheers,
Mat

airplanes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I get tired of sanding and sanding trying to get rid of those seam and joint lines