The Airgeep isn’t sci-fi, it exists and is on display at Ft. Eustis, VA Transportation Museum.
Actuially, the majority of bandai’s kits, the ones that are like… above 15-20$ are superior to most armor kits I have built. Have you built any of the 2.0 MG kits yet? They just need some PE and theyd have every armor kit topped.
Cool. I had no idea they actually got around to making one. I really wish the model had looked anything like those photos.
I was also going to say that the Toy Biz Ghost Rider model was another genuinely awful kit, but I suppose now you’ll tell me that it was a figure model, and therefore doesn’t count? [:D]
nah, ghost rider counts… but its technichly is fantasy, not scifi[:D]
I want to say Kitterand,but I think Keil Kraft might be it. This was a spitfire kit that had the asthetic quality of a bulldog with its’ face smashed in!
All the parts were horribly cast,and ill-fitting with flash everywhere. The plastic was soft,and waxy feeling,like polypropylene(milk jug material),and the instructions had no real designation for the parts themselves,or a real explanation as to where they went with only arrows to show the parts placement. I was amazed that this even came with instructions,as the decals were soft,and melted away if exposed to water too long! Truly one of the worst models ever made to mankind! [:(!]
Dang it! [swg]
Okay, how about this one: The old Airfix 2001 Orion III Pan-Am shuttle. Poor fit, completely inaccurate, and way too expensive for what you get.
AMT Enterprise D. Fit is HORRID, and there is a pebbly surface texture. Not to mention the ejector pin parks I guess you would call them because they are never in alignment with the rest of the lines. Speaking of the detail lines they are kid of soft and squigly. HUGE gaps in VERY bad spots.
AMT Romulan Warbird, fit issues extreme. Seams in bad spots.
Original X-Wing kit, where would I start.
If I can think of any others I’ll mention them later.
Ghost Rider counts, whether you consider it sci-fi or fantasy. But calling a kit of an actual vehicle that exists a sci-fi kit is rather strange. Anigrand does a neat line of the experimental US flying machines of the 50s and 60s, including the AirGeep. Those aren’t sci-fi because they existed.
Yes, we heard.
I always regret whenever I enter into this sci-fi forum.
Now that’s not fair. You’re going to malign a whole class of model builders just because I made one slightly snarky comment?
just because it existed doesnt mean it isnt sci-fi
and I will prove it with one picture
I see your gundam and raise you a
Tetsujin 28.
I don’t dabble too much in Sci-Fi modeling but I’ll agree that the AMT Star Trek kits were pretty dire.
I think a lot of it had to do with AMT’s styrene. I always tried to avoid their kits because of that, their styrene always seemed softer and melted too much when you put the cement to it. Not to mention the seam and detail misalignment issues that plagued most of the their Star Trek line of kits.
Their TNG Romulan Warbird was nasty and had quite a questionable parts breakdown.
What really bothered me was their Cardassian Galor class model from their DS9 kit series. Nothing worked on that kit! panel lines on the top and bottom halves were so misaligned that it looked like two different people were given two different diagrams to do each half. The whole kit felt like it was some sort of afterthought to the rest of the series.
It really was a shame because it was my favorite of the ship designs from the DS9 series and when I had it completed and I compered it to pictures and images of the ship on TV,the model looked dimensionally and proportionately quite off in several respects.
Moving beyond Star Trek; does anyone remember the short lived “SeaQuest DSV” series from the early 90s? It ran for three seasons but only the first season was worth anything.
Monogram had the license to make kits for the series.
Their SeaQuest submarine kit itself was pretty simplistic, but not bad.
However, there was a utility type submarine vehicle from the series (I don’t remember it’s exact name, but it was pretty much an underwater pick up truck) that they made a kit of that was god awful in every way.
It had sink marks on many key parts that were in such places on the parts that scratch building replacements was about all you could do. The vehicle had a mesh enclosed cargo box that Monogram supplied as four clear pieces with the mesh patterned engraved on it. Try masking and painting those parts and then getting them together without fogging the clear styrene. I gave up on that one!
I’d also include any Games Workshop styrene kit I’ve ever built. I know some will argue and say RPG kits aren’t Sci-fi, but we’ll just have to agree to disagree.
Anyway, any GW styrene kit I’ve ever tried has been horrifically overpriced for what you get in it. You get basic shapes with little detail and poor fit.
I include them because, for the price, there should be a sprue or two of customizing parts included to make the kits into respectable display models OOB if you please. Not just low detail RPG pieces.
That bloated Nautilus from the made for TV show was a bit of a turd.
I agree totally.
Granted these have gotten better in recent years, I think it can be attributed to GW’s inexperience with styrene. Anyway, the bad fit on the old Landspeeders is legendary. I hear their new one is much better though.
I’ve seen a majority of the kits mentioned in this thread so far and none of them come close to the pile of crap that was the AMT/ERTL Death Star. I never believed that anyone could screw up a ball, but they did it. It’s a kit with no saving graces whatsoever. It doesn’t even make good fodder for bashing into something else. At least you can do that with many of the other kits out there.
out of the amt series has got to be the enterprise-a. all of those aztecky panel lines all over,need i say more. not to mention how weak the plastic was where the pylons meet the engineering hull. i don’t think that i have ever gotten one of the pylons to stay on without drilling holes and using alignment pins. the nacelle details are so bad you might as well scratch them. the b-c decks are trash as well. and the deflector dish, impulse crystal and nacelle grills are molded out of the same opaque plastic as the rest of the ship which makes lighting almost not worth it. and all of this is without really picking nits like the fact that all of the docking ports are way off in size.
although it does make a decent kit for bashing the snot out of.
Oh yeah. I had that one. After basic assembly I just gave up on it and used it to test paint colors.
I think I remember someone around here scratchbuilt an awesome one…
deep space nine kit itself. nothing fit at all, nothing