Title says it all, what kit that you have ever built just plain got on your nerves, bad fit, messed up the decals, losing a key part, krazy glued your hand to a wing?? Etc.
My most annoying kit was a Tamiya 1/35 Sherman, don’t get me wrong it was an excellent kit, but I lost one of the bogie halfs and had to get it replaced, cracked an open spoke wheel and had to use the die cast wheels which look just plain ugly, I had a REALLY annoying problem with my paint bubbling on the surface of the model, and finally I ripped a decal for the marking I wanted and had to use a different scheme.
For worst kit I would say a Lindberg USS Melvin, the hull and deck didnt fit together, at all. The prop shafters were different lengths, the motor included didnt work and finally the depth charge racks didnt fit at all either.
Well, that’s not really an aggravating or annoying kit, then is it? That was an aggravating time building a kit, not due to any fault of the kit itself. [;)]
To answer the question asked in the title, by far the most aggravating kit I’ve ever built was SKIF’s 1/35 BMP-3. Incredibly bad fit compounded by atrocious engineering, poor molding, clunky or missing detail, and criminally misleading instructions. I spent more time cleaning up ugly parts and just getting those ugly parts to somewhat fit together than I do on most complete builds.
Having said all that, with tons of TLC and blood, sweat, and tears, it can be turned into a nice BMP-3.
I built this one for Armour Modelling magazine:
You guys are gona hate me. I would say its the Blohm & Voss BV 222 its just a vaery piss poor enginerd kit. so bad that i got mad and smashed it in the trash can and i havent had a kit do that before.
The kit contained only about 20 pieces and I use the term “pieces” intentionally. Many of these “pieces” were essentially blobs of styrene stuck on a sprue that you had to remove and then carve into parts. Horrendous fit, sloppy and soft details, and terrible instructions. The only parts worth a darn were the rubber tires…and they were only “passable”.
Revell Monogram’s P-40B(1/48)I dont think all kits were like mine,but mine had major fit problems,I opened the box and all the glass like pices were broken.
I’ve said this before, Revel’s P38 Lightning. I know I’m not the only one with a bad impression of this kit. The only redeeming quality of this kit was…well, nothing.
It’s probably the Hit-Kit MiG-3 that I am currently building.
It is like this kit is fighting back!
Beeing a vacform kit, a lot of the problems (bad fit etc) are probably my own fault. But every time I think I am making progress, a setback comes a long. Just last week I punctured trough a wing when I was reengraving it!
Any MPM kit.
Parts do not attach to the trees, they are a part of the trees!
And I love when they call for PE that isn’t in the box, or for you to supply wire, clear plastic, or the like.
The absolute worst for me was a kit called the “Visible Woman”. I bought her when Revell still had the moulds and I thought the anatomical nature of the kit would be a nice change of pace from my usual aircraft modeling. As I understand, an outfit called Skillcraft currently holds her moulds.
According to the instructions and a nifty little pamphlet in the box, the kit was designed with the help of surgeons and other medical experts.
None of the internal body parts fit together worth anything and the clear exterior “body” components wouldn’t close around the internal stuff whe it was all together. I was doing the non-pregnant version so I dare not even think what the complications would be if I had tried it.
The only way I could get the “body” to fit around the insides was to cut sections out of it, superglue it together and then paint the “body” to hide the crazing.
Well, she was a total failure when I built her as Revell. When I saw her a few years later as Skillcraft I thought maybe my skill were up to her, guess again!
I’ve heard Revell got the moulds from some other outfit who went belly up years back.
If there’s any justice, those surgeons and medical experts who helped design the kit got their lisences revoked.
I like the idea of an anatomical kit, I just wish someone would do it with today’s medical imaging gear. You know, MRI their insides and laser map their outsides and make sure the same individual was used for both sections of the model so the insides went in really nice like they should.
I think the one that really got me ticked off was the Academy F-16 C “Flying RazorBacks” That thing had fit problems everywhere! The seat didn’t want to fit into the cockpit, and since I attatched the pilot to the seat, I had to surgiclly remove his legs, arms, and accidently his head (poor guy!) When I got the seat in, it didn’t sit low enough to clear the canopy, and the wing roots look horrible! I did finish it, but its more of a test dummy for my many bad ideas [:D] One plus about it is that it comes with a metric butt load of A/A and A/G missles and bombs, so those all went in the spares box[tup]
worst was the revell titanic. I couldve made a better kit pouring raw melted styrene straight into the box it came in. the thing was nasty. and I actually tried using PE on it! i made it for somebody, and they actually liked it a lot (so they say). in any case, i just dont talk about that one anymore, its too aggravating. its like that one car accident you got into and just cant speak about with anyone…
