The crappiest fitting kits. What’s yours.

[Clunkmeister]

15 hours ago, Artful69 said:

Another fond memory of a high impact incident with the round filing cabinet ...

The old Revell Bf.110C-4 ... no amount of putty and re-scribing could ever fix that masterful puzzle of engineering ineptitude.

I remember wishing I’d hung onto it if only to show the Dragon kit to it - “see ... with a little more effort, this is what you COULD have been!!!”

Rog

Rog, I remember a Revell 110 kit that confounded all my attempts to make it right, and this may very well might have been the one. 

Then the Dragon 110, just after it came out, but before Brett Green wrote an addendum to those workd famous instructions. You know, the ones that were illustrated by a toddler in crayon? 

That kit, after 3 weeks of ill fitting hell, hit the far wall of my hobby room at about Mach 3, and I scared my wife because I started loudly cussing in German like a Bundesmarine sailor using strings of words I hadn't even thought of in 30 years.  There wasn't enough filler in all of the DFW. area.    Not one of my finer moments, but that thing well and truly wound my clock spring. 

Oh, and then there are the joys of builder error.

Like the stunted growth version of an Eduard/Werner's Wings 109 V-14 racer. After some overexuberance while sanding, my brilliant self ended up with a fuselage about a quarter inch too short. I finished it anyway, without fixing the error, but that thing looked comically stupid. That one fell victim to an unfortunate shotgun blast. 

[crazypoet]

The one that comes to mind just now is the Signifer 1/48 Grumman Goose

Its gorgeous insofar as details are concerned, but the internal fit is abysmal 

[JohnB]

The Fly Hurricane Mk II is right up there with poor fitting kits. VERY high cuss-factor.

[1to1scale]

On 9/17/2019 at 2:08 PM, Clunkmeister said:

I finished it anyway, without fixing the error, but that thing looked comically stupid. That one fell victim to an unfortunate shotgun blast. 

You can’t possibly pay for any better therapy, I bet that brought gleeful giggles for an hour!

[harv]

Not a kit per say, but conversion. The HO229 2 seat conversion from ZM. Reason I stopped building it.......harv

[BlrwestSiR]

37 minutes ago, harv said:

Not a kit per say, but conversion. The HO229 2 seat conversion from ZM. Reason I stopped building it.......harv

I haven't even started mine since it's almost as bad as yours. Which is a shame really.

[harv]

Carl, your right, a terrible shame.....harv

[Clunkmeister]

On 9/17/2019 at 8:40 AM, Bill_S said:

Battleaxe Fokker E.III

This one gets a vote, it is HIDEOUS!

On 9/17/2019 at 10:20 AM, Drifter said:

I have 2, Testors 1/72 U2 and Trumpeter 1/32 Mig 17Bis. 

These too. Never built the Trumpeter MiG 15/17, but have heard the horror stories

[1to1scale]

2 hours ago, Clunkmeister said:

This one gets a vote, it is HIDEOUS!

These too. Never built the Trumpeter MiG 15/17, but have heard the horror stories

I don’t think they are as bad as some people say, true, they are not Tamiya quality, but most everyone has enough modelling skills to beat it into shape. Plus, at an average of $15-$20 each, you can spend $80 on a cockpit, PE, canopy, and wing fences, you have one nice mig. 

[Drifter]

18 hours ago, Clunkmeister said:

This one gets a vote, it is HIDEOUS!

These too. Never built the Trumpeter MiG 15/17, but have heard the horror stories

Do yourself a favor, dont try them. 

[Drifter]

15 hours ago, 1to1scale said:

I don’t think they are as bad as some people say, true, they are not Tamiya quality, but most everyone has enough modelling skills to beat it into shape. Plus, at an average of $15-$20 each, you can spend $80 on a cockpit, PE, canopy, and wing fences, you have one nice mig. 

Haha, Funny man. 

[Clunkmeister]

15 hours ago, 1to1scale said:

I don’t think they are as bad as some people say, true, they are not Tamiya quality, but most everyone has enough modelling skills to beat it into shape. Plus, at an average of $15-$20 each, you can spend $80 on a cockpit, PE, canopy, and wing fences, you have one nice mig. 

Agreed, but I took the easy way out and got the superb HPH MiG-15 instead. It’s everything the Trumpeter kit should have been. 

[Mikester]

I struggle with the Pacific Coast 1/32 190.  And the fit really isn't horrible, just kind of a wonky design makes it harder to get together than it should be, especially the lower cowl.

[Sir Desmond Glazebrook]

Trumpeter MiG 17. Not as bad as Ernie's, but horrible. Horrible also in it just being clunky.