worst kit you've ever built

[redbaron]

So what is the worst built kit ever to hit your bench? What condition was it in, and if you have before and/ or after pics.

[Brandon]

No pictures, but several of the old Revell kits, when coupled with an eager young kid didn't go as planned at all.. The Orange Crate comes to mind first, Roth's Outlaw, the Road Agent, the red Anglia with the opening doors... Casper's Undertaker is a pain... the headers and engines of Ivo's Showboat (which I've built a couple of.. eesh.) time, patience, and the understanding of scraping plating and being careful when removing flimsy chrome bars have helped... as a generalization, the Monogram kits were sturdy like toys, AMT was my favorite, and Revell had the cool stuff, but you had to be careful with all of the fiddly little details, tie rods, and hinges you had to build.

[Phil Patterson]

Looking back, the old Revell 55-6-7 Chevys with the opening doors and too much detail.
They were just fiddly and the front grille and bumpe areas were especially weak.
Also, have to agree with Brandon on the Undertaker. I've got a partially built Polar Lights version and the plastic in that kit was just hostile to glue. I got tired of putting it back together repeatedly, it's back in the box awaiting my return which may never happen.

[Dennis M]

The Orange Crate got me twice as a kid' someday I will build another.The Telephone Booth also got kaboshed. I do have a Phone Booth model almost complete now.

[old school modeler]

Good question! When I was in the Road Knights model club in Charlotte, we did this as a meeting theme to put some perspective in things for the newer builders. We had everybody bring some examples in of the kind of things you guys are describing. We had prizes for the worst paint, worst overall, etc. I brought an old Palmer T-Bird that I had experimented on with painting over water droplets and then bursting the paint for an effect. Nastiest thing you ever saw, green over a purple base to boot.

You guys are pretty hard on the old Undertaker! Remember these? This was built from an original long box Aurora, just before the reissue.






Have to agree with you guys on those Revell kits with the working parts. The Anglia and Orange Crate were hard for me as well, some of the early IMC's for the same reason.

[carl2404]

the repop of the Vampire Van,

Nothing lined up, and half the pieces didnt fit, after modifying all the stuff that i didnt like the only orgional piece ive used so far is the body and a few chrome accessories..

[mrtc4w]

IMC Ford GT with the "snake pit" exhaust!

Marty

[donculley]

As for building ,I agree on the old Revell kits , As a 11 year old kid I know I made a horrible mess of a Moon Mixer , and later on the Chopped Duece and the 56 Chevy did me in.
Looking at your post ,were you asking about the worst kit to build, or the worst one you had that you restored. The worst kits I restored was a Dragon Wagon and a Tijuana Taxi ; it took me forever to rebuild. A close second would have been the Bug Bomb and Glitterbug .All four were broken up gluebombs.

[Starry Eyes]

First issue of the Revell tri-5's '55-'56-'57 Chevrolet kid.. And the IMC GT40...

[Brandon]

[quote author=donculley board=general thread=17151 post=155269 time=1334581743}
Looking at your post ,were you asking about the worst kit to build, or the worst one you had that you restored. [/quote]

LOL! Ya know? I totally mis-read that... the title should have been what's the worst kit you've ever REBUILT...

For me, I have hacked several grails that were glue bombs... The TJ Taxi was a complete Testors spill when I got it, and it took two and a half Rommel's Rods to make the custom one I did. Somebody had taken a lighter to the fenders to simulate damage and drilled a hole in the rear. It was a mess...

I thnk I paid $60 for the bare TJ taxi hull... and the frame was snapped off at the firewall and missing, the glass was boogered up... it had glue finger prints all over it...

now you can buy a new one for $20...

[donculley]

I managed to dig up a couple of old shots. The first is the Bug Bomb , painted in some kind of unremovable craft paint , things put on wrong, and at least two tubes of glue , so much so that the roof caved in .Everything had to be cut off .Lots of filler and sanding later , I was test fitting the new hand made glass in the now painted body and I dropped it on the carpet - the body literally shattered like an egg ! So it was back to the body work. i was happy how it finally turned out though




Heres my Dragon wagon, over two years of working on and searching for parts, and now you can buy one for $19.99 !

And my Glitterbug. No old pics, but another car that had to be cut apart. Many hours in this thing too.

[modelcarfan]

Trash to treasure... Sure love that BUG! way cool... and way big transformation!!!!

[carl2404]

Apr 16, 2012 12:25:20 GMT -6 modelcarfan said:

Trash to treasure... Sure love that BUG! way cool... and way big transformation!!!!

Now thats a good concept for a thread.. Trash 2 Treasure..

i have a dog catcher and a horn toad that both fit that...

[HTBomb]

IMC's Cougar II comes to mind. I remember struggling with that one.

[rocketeer]

Apr 17, 2012 18:04:50 GMT -6 HTBomb said:

IMC's Cougar II comes to mind. I remember struggling with that one.

That kit is pretty nifty, though, with lots of working features--the steering wheel can turn the front wheels!


.....But, unfortunately, due to some kind of little teensy error, when the wheel is turned to the right, the wheels steer to the left. ;D

[redbaron]

Apr 16, 2012 8:23:23 GMT -6 Brandon said:

[quote author=donculley board=general thread=17151 post=155269 time=1334581743}
Looking at your post ,were you asking about the worst kit to build, or the worst one you had that you restored.

LOL! Ya know? I totally mis-read that... the title should have been what's the worst kit you've ever REBUILT...

For me, I have hacked several grails that were glue bombs... The TJ Taxi was a complete Testors spill when I got it, and it took two and a half Rommel's Rods to make the custom one I did. Somebody had taken a lighter to the fenders to simulate damage and drilled a hole in the rear. It was a mess...

I thnk I paid $60 for the bare TJ taxi hull... and the frame was snapped off at the firewall and missing, the glass was boogered up... it had glue finger prints all over it...

now you can buy a new one for $20...

[/quote]
Yes when I started this thread I ment kit that you have rebuilt

[Dennis M]

The worst kits I rebuilt were the big Red Baron & the Dragula.When they hit the floor from the cats they really hit. LOL Dennis

[gfgcollects]

A little old MG TC kit that I got in a Zip lock bag at a dollar store. The instructions were vague to say the least, but those little tiny parts, must have been 150 total, made my eyeballs bleed. Super delicate and upon completion it sat in my office for years only being modified by the cleaning lady every so often when she dusted it right off the shelf.

Gerry G

[lorenzovargas1978]

Lets see,lindberg 48 lincoln,and revell 57 Cadillac eldorado biarritz.Those were shear utter multipiece body crap,but I did get a decent curbside out of the caddy.

[bugaboo]

Well, both my original Tijuana Taxi (It was before the repop) and my Bugaboo were very very poor when I got them, but what the heck, lots of hours later, and I think they turned out okay










Of the "new" or unbuilt kits I built, the worst until now is without a doubt Revells California Dune Buggy. I wont go into details, but MAN did I hate building that kit.... Terrible....

[skulldude]

Sorry no pics,
But I took a badly gluebomed badman from an ebay lot and blew it apart{What a task} Painted it candy red lettered "BAD BIT*H"
and it looked good!!