We've all had models that refused to go together - I'm not talking about the 70's clunkers, but a supposedly state of the art model from a mainstream maker! Maybe it was just you, but the models resisted you, until for reasons of continued health, they were consigned to land fill.
Here are just two that still annoy me!
This went together nicely, until I came to attach the gun shield - 4 pieces of PE that had to be bent to bridge the gap between carriage & shield. No way! I bent, failed, annealed, failed, and so on. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result .
Landfill
This was my first Panda kit - and it put me off so much that I haven't made anything from them since.
Looked good on the in-box reviews - but assembly? I simply couldn't get the one-piece upper body to fit to the chassis, over the finely detailed interior. I thought I had mis-read the instructions, went back & checked, but no - I came to the conclusion that the parts were wrong. I put it away for a few months, then came back to it - tried again............................
Landfill!
I would love to hear about models that have beaten you, the supposedly 'new tooling' that was a waste of time - new releases that should have been kept in the box
Dave
Here are just two that still annoy me!
This went together nicely, until I came to attach the gun shield - 4 pieces of PE that had to be bent to bridge the gap between carriage & shield. No way! I bent, failed, annealed, failed, and so on. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result .
Landfill
This was my first Panda kit - and it put me off so much that I haven't made anything from them since.
Looked good on the in-box reviews - but assembly? I simply couldn't get the one-piece upper body to fit to the chassis, over the finely detailed interior. I thought I had mis-read the instructions, went back & checked, but no - I came to the conclusion that the parts were wrong. I put it away for a few months, then came back to it - tried again............................
Landfill!
I would love to hear about models that have beaten you, the supposedly 'new tooling' that was a waste of time - new releases that should have been kept in the box
Dave
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This largely finished state may coincide with difficult stages of assembly, or with things I find very dull or daunting, but I don’t consider them to be impossible to build. All I need to do is find the motivation someday 
