ugliest or worst fitting kit you ever built

[jbwelda]

yeah those roth models can be pretty fiddly. i have yet to try one in adult life but as a kid i remember slaughtering a couple of each of the bubble tops.

[slapshot]

For me it has to be the 1957 AMT flip vette. The best I could do was to just leave the front half flipped up.

[Nate]

I also think MPC's "Barnabas Collins Vampire Van" was a REALLY bad model simply because of what it took to produce it — the destruction of the tooling for MPC's beautiful '33 Chevy panel truck.

That, IMO, has to rank as one of worst and most short-sighted decisions in the history of the model kit industry — ravaging the molds for a kit that would still be viable today in order to produce a kit of a non-existent "thingie" vehicle tied to a short-lived TV series. Stupid!

I agree. That 33 Chevy Panel was an awesome kit!

[samdiego]

Bluesman Mark, gird your loins because the AM Mclaren perturbed more than any kit I have encountered. inexcusable for a modern kit that cost as much as that one did.

And Grampa Mcgurk Never discount what can be done with one of the old wood block kits by a man skilled in the art of knivery. Just check my awesome avatar

[samdiego]

It's a little baffling. I've built a few of AMs 1/48 airplanes and thought they were pretty good

Edited December 15, 2010 by samdiego

[horsepower]

Now that you mention it, do you suppose Tim or one of his accolytes was designing kits for Pyro back then? It could explain a few things. All kidding aside, I am going to be on the lookout for the Pyro "Pustang" or "Minto", however it can be described and do a build. It probably won't look as nice as Marks' but it will resemble the 1/1 almost as well.

Possibly "Puntang"?

[mistermodel]

The worst one I attempted ,never did finish it was the monogram(maybe it was revell) 1/24 jeep CJ7-pure junk.That's the only car type kit

I've had problems with.My main interest these days is trucks ,Ive built a lot of them that other people complain about warped chassis and such,with no problem,so maybe I'm lucky or blind,maybe a little of both.The L700 kit was probably the most challenging though.Some of the kits mentioned on these 4 pages I've had over the years and just don't recall too many issues.I think that kits that don't look right go to the parts box,not sure how the makers got away with some stuff.Whoever it was that mentioned that a lot of tooling is 40-50 years old made the most valid point in this thread

[Keef]

Possibly "Puntang"?

I LOL'd long and hard over this reply

[Chuck Most]

I think the only thing these were good for was using the MCSS nose on MPC El Caminos...until AMT made that redundant by issuing the El Cam kit as an SS themselves.

That's why I used the Buick nose on this El Camino SS kit! Reverse engineering at its... well, not finest, but reverse engineering nevertheless!

[Mike Kucaba]

You guys all need a hobby...Oh that's how we got here...never mind :lol:

[dodgefever]

I agree with the comments on the MPC flip nose '57 'vette, Revell '56 F100 and AMT's '69 Chevelle. My 'vette remains unfinished, the F100 was junked and the Chevelle got hacked into a short tracker.

I have a soft spot for the Revell tri-fives, especially the '57. I sold all my new tool AMT '57s unbuilt because they look too big and the detail is too soft.

To add to the list, for poor fit I nominate the following:

AMT '51 Chevy - had three of these and all had warped chassis and poor chassis/innner fender/firewall/body fit.

Fujimi Countach - apart from the whole thing being unnecessarily fiddly to build, the major flaw is that the doors don't fit and the hinging doesn't work properly. If I ever summon the enthusiasm to finish this one, it'll have the doors fixed open.

For ugly:

Revell '69 Mustang - what's going on with that front end? I couldn't fix it, so it became a chassis/inner fenders donor for an AMT '69 Cougar.

[lordairgtar]

How about the 1966 AMT Thunderbird. The modesty panel below the front bumper is too long on the sides and needs a quarter inch cut off each side. A minor thing but imagine the frustration of someone not at all experienced with this kind of repairing. My grandfather bought me my model when I was a kid and he brought home the usual AMT annuals but sometimes brought home the IMC Fords and the GT40 and those types of things and the Renwall Revivals. So having much experience with those cars (the 48 Fords) I really liked the way they went together. The Revell 56 Chevy with all the separate chrome trim bits was the one that ticked me off.

[Jason Vandergriff]

one kit ive yet to see mentioned is the amt 72 Nova. Its seperate front fenders never did line up good.

[evilone]

easy revell's most fubar model that i have ever experianced the enzo ferrari i hate that ###### kit with a passion i tried building one twice and it never EVER fit right so i douced it in gas and introduced it to the fire god.