What is your most dreaded part?

DoogsATX

The CLACK...clack...clack...clack (or ting, if it's PE) of a part hitting the garage floor and immediately bouncing to the most inaccessible place.

Then looking down, and seeing the floor strewn with little bits of discarded sprue tree, all the EXACT SAME COLOR as the part lost.

Then spending half an hour on my hands and knees trying to find said part.

Throw a little dachshund into the mix who thinks that since you're crawling around on the floor that it's time to play with Daddy!  Welcome to my own special flavor of Hell! 

The CLACK...clack...clack...clack (or ting, if it's PE) of a part hitting the garage floor and immediately bouncing to the most inaccessible place.

Then looking down, and seeing the floor strewn with little bits of discarded sprue tree, all the EXACT SAME COLOR as the part lost.

Then spending half an hour on my hands and knees trying to find said part.

I hate trying to convince the carpet monster to give parts back.

Fiddly interior parts that will never be seen again when the model is finished: I don't bother including them.

A modeler friend of mine hates cockpits and landing gear, so he builds all his "gear up" and paints the inside of the canopies sky blue!  Actually, it doesn't look bad at all, especially on 1/72 scale aircraft.

attaching rubber tracks....

Explaining to my wife why UPS just dropped off another package at the front door...

Mark

VanceCrozier

Canopy framing....

Oh *&# yes.  I'm doing that right now on a fairly simple canopy (1/32 Mig 3), and it's still torture.  

I also dread the painting steps.  My airbrush skills are still developing and inconsistent, and when it comes time to paint I may have 20-30 hours of construction work in the model.  Poor paint results are a lot harder to reverse than a poorly fitting part or a bad seam, and it comes after so much time and effort has been invested.

Conversely, it's also one of my favorite steps as the model really starts to come alive with the paint... 

The part I dislike the most is deciding what to to or where to put he model after completion.

The rest of the process beats mowing the lawn and the honey-do-list,  so I am good with it all.

the part that doesn't EVER want to stay on/glued etc...

Anything having to do with PE!

I HATE PE! 

Canopy framing....

I hate SEAMS!!!!!