I have a Revell-Monogram F-14 that I got incredibly cheap ($5 at K-Mart). I’ve tried dry fitting the top and bottom fuselage pieces, and they’re not lining up at all. The bottom’s about 1/4 inch shorter than the top. Given the size of my “to-do” pile, I won’t be getting to this one any time soon.
-Jonathan
Mine must be a 1/100 VEB-Plasticard Dassault Mercure airliner… If you know of VEB-Plasticard, that old East-German manufacturer, you’ll understand why!
Brian, any chances of you exchanging/selling this Concorde…? I think it would look great side-by-side with the VEB-Plasticard Tu-144 (If I ever find one again! - Another great piece of sh… plastic by the way!!!)
I would have to say the hobbycraft SU 27. What a piece of [censored].
1/32 Matchbox SBD Dauntless. One of the worst POS I’ve ever worked on!!!
Fujimi 1/72 F-16 [xx(]
Airfix 1/72 Harrier High tech kit ( now thats a rip off they call it high tech and charge 50% more and then its even more bad than their other kits )
Man, I’ve got two that do nothing but perch on the edge of my workbench, snarl if I approach, and double-damn DARE me to build them!
ModelCraft 1/48 scale F-82G. I just can’t get any two parts to admit they are representative of the same aricraft.
Williams Brothers 1/32 Hall Bulldog. Maybe I’m just getting old and crankey, but I just cannot bring myself to invest the necesary time into converting this undercover vacuum-form lump into a model.
Think I’ll just scratchbuild a WWI Gotha bomber, IN A BOTTLE!. Less work than either of these two.
Phil
Two Matchbox 1/72 CH-47s. I cannot begin to tell you what its like to work all day on the real thing, then try to summon up the courage to make one of them look decent, since I really don’t build in 72nd . They’ve been on the pile since 1992, with no start date in sight.
Chris ish
Well I was going to list the Modelcraft 1/48 F-82, but silverback already did, so how about the HiPM SB2U Vindicator or their Heinkel He-100 ? I think HiPM is now out of business, can’t imagine why. Still salvitating waiting for the AM Vindicator so I can complete my early WW2 Navy collection. Hey silverback, when you complete your Gotha in a bottle be sure and post pics. Would love to see that one!
err…anything by hobbycraft??[:(!]
i built a do-17z with a banana sized bend in it’s fuselage, and a p-40b for the pearl group build which still looks like a rubbish hobbycraft kit, no matter how much i tell myself i did a good job on it!![:(!][:(!][:(!]
guys, there’s a reason why tamiya and hasegawa are more expensive, believe me.
regards,
nick
That reminds me of the VEB 1/100 Let 410 Turbolet I had once. I wish it had worked out, I love the looks of the 410, its probably one of the most attractive aircraft to come off of a Socialist assembly line.[:p]
I’m also reminded of Hasegawa’s 1/72 Mitsubishi MU-2 that didn’t work out for me. The engineers must have had too much saki in their systems when they decided how the wingtip fuel tanks should go together. Each tank was a six piece affair and no way no how could you get them together withut them looking like someone had attacked them with a 1/72 sledgehammer. The plastic was also so hard and brittle that cracks formed in all the parts when I took my nippers to the sprue attachments.[:(!]
Tamiya’s Royal Navy Sea Harrier - first kit I bought after a 25 year hiatus from modelling. Ick. [xx(] Just not into it - now I just use its plastic to experiment with my airbrush. My other kits, however, have definitely benefitted from the harrier’s sad existence on my bench.
Jim [:)]
29-03-04
Well, this thread is like a red flag to a bull for me.
Have to go with the Monogram 1/48 Spitfire and Hurricane there. So bad, they can’t even be used for donations.
The Smer 1/48 SE.5a looks dodgy and I have a Glencoe grummann Duck that looks rough, but… maybe someday.
By the way, the Revell/Monogram Black Bunny kit is rubbish. I spent months on that sucker, sanding, filling, filing and still it would not go together well. I finished it off, though as I too feel that a kit need not be wasted, but no-one gets to see it well up close.
6 ft I think is as close as they get.
Liam
Oh btw, if anyone wants, and they are god-like at salvaging, i can kindly sell the scraps of the trumpeter for under $30… most parts are there, missing a couple, some joins need work, and most seams are filled. email me for details i_r_rule@hotmail
The Savanah!!! From what seems like a million years ago!
And ,of course there is one on e-bay. (if anyone’s interested)
OOPS! Ther goes that memory thing again. [:D]
Actually, the Savanah goes on my worst build pile of ships. Sorry. [|)]
The B-58 Hustler, the one that erock68 is building on a previous post, goes on my worst build airplane pile.
I built it, probably, because it was a beautiful plane to look at. Even static, while on the ground with those long struts to accommodate under belly ordinance.
The ship was still in service and had just set a worlds speed record and it was right after I built the Savanah. [;)]
Domi, you glutton for punishment, you!
Sure, if you’re interested in that ol’ Doyusha clunker, hit me with an email.
I need more space in the closet!
Roden’s WWI Gotha IV is lurking in my closet-it has more struts than a snake has ribs and miles of brittle decals.
The worst kit or the most frustrating kit I have is the one I just tried and ending up destorying. It was the Haswage P-38F-H. No matter what I did one boom was higher than the other so the tail plane would not not line up straight.
On the pile, the kits I think that are going to require a lot of work and TLC are going to be:
Promodeler Ju 88
Monogram B-26
Monogram B-25 H
Revell B-24 D
Thundergod - Roger that about the AMT/ ERTL XB-70. Mine ended up with almost more filler than plastic! On the other hand, the finished product looks awe-inspiring, and how many other 1/72 XB-70s are there?
The worst kit on my ‘to build’ pile has to be a Revell (Germany) 1/72 Curtiss SB2C-1 Helldiver. It’s the Matchbox mouldings, with almost no interior detail, some of the crudest detail I’ve ever seen (and I started modelling in 1958, so I’ve seem some pretty crude detail in my time), the usual trenches for panel lines, and, wait for it, working folding wings! To put the icing on the cake, it has late 1990s - style Revell (Germany) decals, which are horribly matt, and silver at the slightest excuse, despite the use of Future and solvents. When last seen, it was in a black bag at the back of the garage, and about # 256 on the list.
Chris
PS Is anyone going to admit to having built a Starfix kit, and want to share their experience?
“hobbycraft SU 27” ??
I have a 1/48 Zhangdefu su27. Are they the same moulding, as that’s my pic for this thread. I started it a while ago, and just got POed and gave up. In my whole modelling life, it’s the only kit I’ve started but not finished. The gaps between the fuselage and wings must be at least 3-4mm wide. I’ll still finish it eventually. I never throw or not finish something I start!