Biggest Pain In The Ass Model

What kit drove you absolutely nuts?For me it was an X-Wing fighter that just wouldn't go together.The two halves of the fuselage just wouldn't line up.It a fit of rage I finally destroyed it.Are there any similar stories out there?

 

A B17 with a similar problem... But the worst of all was an A20 Havoc/Boston I once built. The fuselage wouldn't fit, the dorsal turret wouldn't rotate and the decals ripped. Also, the wheels are broken.

 

And still it looks pretty impressive.. imagine what a real B17 would have been like...

For me, I don't re'lly know which model really drove me nuts that badly. I do know that my Heinkel HE 111 caused some trouble, but not of some significant size.

 

I built an Italeri German 7.5cm PaK on a Steyr RSO chassis once, which plastic for some reason was extremely brittle. It worked out reasonably well though, until I tried to fit the tracks ( rubber ). I broke one or two axles on each side every time I tried. I glued them on again, tried again, and one or two axles broke again. I also noticed that when an axle broke for the second or third time, it never broke in the same place. They were actually less prone to break in the spot where they had already been glued !

To cut a long story short; I got mad. I don´t easily get mad, and I usually find modelling quite relaxing, but this time I got really mad. I threw the model on the floor and started to jump on it, reducing it to small pieces which I could easily vacuum up afterwards.

 

Worst one to date was when I accidently brought my fist down on a 15mm lead war gaming figure. Unfortunately I had added a steel sewing pin to this figure to serve as his spear. This ended up stuck through my finger.

 

"Biggest pain in the ass model" by far......... Jordan. :lol: :lol:



Ooooooops, wrong type of "model" :lol:

 

ouch.

I hope you did get it out, though? Otherwise that migth explain typo's... :lol: just joking.

 

Yes though I've been knocking the points off them since then.

Contra to what people think wargamming is a dangerous sport, particularly medieval or ancients. Anyone who has put their hand down on a stand of Spear, or worst still Pike, doesn't want to repeat the experience.

 

Had a spike on a 28mm miniature's helmet go into my thumb and stick. Yep, been there-done that.

 

Ouch... All I ever did was cut my own finger quite a couple of times while modelling, but nothing like "it hit the bone" or "that finger was hanging by a fibre" or anything.

 

Oh my! that sounds pretty serious!! Too bad you destroyed the whole thing. You might have been able to use parts of it later on, if you had kept it.
I understand your madness though. I can get really touchy when I'm not succeeding, too. 8)

 

Yeah, sometimes I just have to walk away from it & calm down.
I started doing that after once throwing an entire cockpit assembly across a room because the $*%&ing pieces would not behave... :angry:
so now I stop before such anger starts.

 

I think everyone who has tried to build models had been there at least once. In my case there have been so many it's hard to remember them all. The most recent was when trying to scratch build ships suitable for my Early Crusaders wargames army, all I had to do was stick on the rigging. THE SODDING SUPER GLUE WOULDN'T STICK THE SODDING THREAD TO THE SODDING HULL! :angry:

The ship only survived because the memory of pulling a spearman out of my hand was still fairly recent.

 

I must say, I've never violently destroyed a model or reduced it to pieces smaller than those it was originally supposed to consist of. Probably because the topmost thought in my mind when modelling is that I want to see the result, and it would be a shame to smash it before I got there.

Now I have a whole collection of quite embarassingly failed models because I refuse to destroy them.

 

Roel has proved to be a very good source for Destroyed tanks diorama's. I sometimes use his failure- models to destroy they a little and use them in my modelling adventures. Like the Destroyed sherman, displayed in the destroyed models topic.

 

For me it was Italeria's LTV with a 75mm cannon. The track (plastic) where so solid they would not bend and stay on the tank. They would just pop off.
I finaly squiting a ton a krazy glue on the join and it finally held on.

 

My model from hell was Italeri 1/72 P-51 :angry: ( allison engine). I scrached interior and found that fuselage had bad fit :evil: ( my example ) I fixed that. Putyed almost entire fuselage panel lines and resribed them ( why Italeri allways forgets the most prominent panels i really don't know :-? ). Then i find out that wings are unusible as they are for D model :angry: . I tryed to grind them to shape. Unsucessfully ( had to buy Revell's P-51B just for the wings). Had to reshape cuburator intake becouse i had no stomach to reshape this wings. Almost finished the model and droped it :bang: . Had to fix broken parts.
Painted it OD/NG. Then i had problems with serial numbers. They came from different sets and had different yellow colours. I fixed that with white lines over serial numbers ( i was making P-51A from 1.st air commando) and dusting fuselage on that part. Finished the model and droped it again. Another fix of broken parts.
The single non problematic part of making this model was mating Revell wing to Italeri fuselage ( just so i wouln't give up ). I think that I must had my own personal modeling Gremlin for that one.

 

i have an old fw 200 condor by revell, and just to thik on all the rivets that need to be removed from all the surfaces, make me hesitate to start it,

 

Isn't modelling fun...

 

Bah, newer build world war two models but i do build cars and so on. And i can tell you that i had far most problems with italeri models.