We've seen several threads on these forums about the best and worst kits we feel we've built; so I thought I'd try a slightly different spin on it.
Have any of you looked into the box of a kit that looked particularly interesting at your LHS and upon viewing it, nearly wretched or went into fits of laughter before putting the lid back on and saying "no sale"?
Sometimes you can tell just by looking at the parts that there's no way that kit is going to work into anything decent regardless of your boundless, but utterly hopeless and foolish, optimism. ![Evil [}:)]](/FSM/CS/emoticons/icon_smile_evil.gif)
Today I found a kit in my LHS that redefines cr*p in styrene: Kopro's 1/72 F-16D Viper.
Panel lines that make Matchbox trenchwork look dainty and graceful
Beautiful translucent canopy (almost a pearly lustre actually)
Horribly mishapen and miles too short radome
On the upshot there was no flash evident and the guy told me the molds weren't original Kopro, but couldn't remember who's originally.
At least Kopro doesn't have to admit to shoddy tooling, just a poor decision of kits in the range.
So what kits made you run the other way just by a glimpse of the styrene in the box?