Worst Quality Warhammer 40K Model Kits that Games Workshop Still Sells ?

Drukhari player-"Wait, they still sell models?"

Dire Avengers don't have mold lines, they have mold ridges.

I love my sisters... But most of them are monopose and yet so hard to put together without leaving obvious gaps, etc. The whole point of being monopose is that you have a cool pose while being easy to assemble!

You baiting us with the new Terminator kit is Criminal. luv me emprah, luv me crux terminatus, luv me first company, simple as.

The outriders having gaps is due to the push fit design of the models. the parts comprising the 2 halves of the bike have cylindrical pegs that goes inside cylindrical sockets. If you put a lot of glue on either the peg or the socket, it gets trapped inside the socket and compressed by the cylinder. Eventually there's a limit to how much the glue can be compressed so when you set the model down to go build something else, the two halves separate. The easiest fix for this is to trim down or clip off the pegs entirely, leaving no gaps.

The Slaaneshi Daemon chariot is an absolute nightmare to build

I will never not hate tomb blades. Every time I assemble a tomb blade, I shave off an entire year of my lifespan.

The clear plastic flight stands get a bad reputation, but I will 100% take them over the "Oh shit I caught my toe on a rock again." style they have. I feel so bad for anybody who bought that new CSM jump lord. He looks so goofy!

Looters/Burners. Your kit may suck, mine is straight up missing arms

I remember the Finecast launch. The quality checking was hideous. It didn't help that the key-timer at my local store was constantly trying to gaslight everyone about the quality of the kits.

The ones you need to grab with tongs if you don't want to perforate your hands. Aka good percentages of the Chaos, Dark Eldar and Tyranid models.

My latest assembly was the Redemptor Dreadnought. That bugger took me 4-5h of assembly! Why are there so many parts that require to be assembled, only to be hidden under a plate of armor? Also, the piston that attaches the leg to the hip, my god. You have to glue the ring around the hip, without gluging the ring to the hip. Finally, there are some pieces that are supposed to fit perfectly so that you don't have to glue them and thus keep an articulated body. Yeah well the bottom latch over the coffin is stuck, in my case. And I had to trim the armpits's joints for a solid half hour to make them rotate, otherwise my Dread would have been stuck in a T pose

So the Ork Kommandos were the first 40k Model Kit I ever built and they were horrible to put together due to their parts being spread across three different sprues. I had built other plastic models (Gundam) before and this initially put me off 40k a bit. Thankfully other models were not as bad in that regard. However, just recently I had a similar experience with the Night Lords kill team. I understand that the base of them is a regular CSM Legionaries kit, but they also have parts all over the place for individual miniatures, but at least similar parts are grouped together (e.g. all the backpacks are together). I guess though this could be helped if GW had a sensible numbering scheme on their sprues, where parts were numbered according to location on the sprue, rather than according to when they show up in the instructions.

I despise the Bloodletters kit. The moldlines are obscene, there's a mandatory gap-filling required on every forehead, and the swords are often noticeably bent and warped.

There is a reason I kitbashed my Stompa from a Stompa-kit and an old monolith. I already have to fix half the model and the instructions are unreadable, so why not do it properly?

I’ll add the Eldar Wave serpent specifically because of its flight stand. It doesn’t use a modern flight stand, it uses an ultra thin one attached by a little thiner stud on the end. These flight stand are attached to the second heaviest model in Eldar behind the wraithknight and resin stuff and just break all the time. I have bought two and both have broken in the first game I used them in so I don’t really have stands for them anymore.

What about models with extreme overhang? Like the Tyranid toxicrene. So hard to move around the board without accidentally shoving those tentacles into everything. 🙃

Bloodletters don't so much have mold lines as they are mold lines with models attached

Bonus points for all kits that're missing bits to build proper 10th Edition squads, Intercessors missing melee weapons, Crisis Suits not having 6 Fusion etc.

another big issue for modern gw kits is how the models are split up for the sprue. Kit bashing and adjusting models are significantly harder due to where the seams are for a lot of kits. It’s bad enough that space marines, the most kit bashable army, can be a serious effort to do arm or weapon swaps or change posing on these monopose kits.