What are your least and most favorite parts in the process?

I can tell you that one of my favorite parts is peeling the masking off the canopy and windscreen...especially if there are no flaws when I do.  I like the decaling phase, too.

I really hate masking....like masking the wheel wells or camo paint jobs.  I also hate intakes.  Making them seamless takes alot of effort.

On planes and jets,I really love decaling,it brings everything to life

Armor,Its the weatheing,whether its light or heavy it takes away that toy like appearance.

Armor:I hate roadwheels or assembling indies and fruils,not that they are hard,just a drag

I love painting.

I HATE painting.

I like most aspects of kit building, but I hate, abhor and loathe seams and gaps.   I love it when I can make a fuselage seam disappear, but I hate the time that it takes to do so.

I absolutely love opening a new box when I have too many things going already.

I build mostly armor and my least favorite part is probably the road wheels, followed closely by assembling the tracks

Least:- Seams

Most:- Painting

Love cockpit detailing, and scratching up stuff. Don't care for seams. Love masking, if it's for making a specific marking on the model. I'm not a big fan of chrome foil. Hate airbrush cleaning.

Glenn

Favorite parts....cockpit and finish.

Least favorite....everything else...in no particular order...............but I do love all of it!

I don't like seams and visible joins, but I love the challenge of making them invisible. I love the detailing and emphasising of all the doo-dads. I spend inordinate amounts of time on all the detail and love every single second. I have NEVER become frustrated with a build, once started.

I use powerful jeweller's binoculars for all my detail. I cannot think of any particular part of a build that even comes close to testing my patience...ever.

So I'm weird, but I am truly passionate about modeling.  It is a love affair that will never end.

I like research ahead of time best, followed by the last stage where the decals go on, the finish gets tweaked and the model gets displayed. Everything in between, meh not so much.

The kind of builds you describe are disasters. i've hosted three, and in every case there will be one individual who punts off their responsibility and stymies the whole thing.

I really love researching the subject and then trying to replicate it with paint.

What really gets to me is the almost endless amount of date stencils especially on modern aircraft. Just so frustrating.

Elroy

I have NEVER become frustrated with a build, once started.

Oh yeah, try the Monogram B-36.

Least - Masking complicated canopies, seams.

Fav - Painting, decals

I'm with Fermis.. Ain't really anything I don't like, each phase is it's own reward... I guess if I had to pick, my favorite area is cockpits, least favorite, roadwheels..

My favorite part is everything after the primer goes on. And cockpits, but I tend to get impatient with them sometimes.

Least favorite?

The drag time between finishing the cockpit and being ready to close up the fuselage.

The drag time between finishing main assembly and being able to paint.

Tamiya decals.

My favorite part is decaling. For me this brings the model to life. It gives it some identity, its not just a plan or tank, its a plan or tank with a history.

Least favorite, decaling. If it involves a lot of decals, i find the process long and tedious. I do it in lots of small stages. I do as many decals as i can before my tub of water goes cold, then leave it for a while.

If there are not many decals, then my least favorite would be dealing with the seams. I find that really dificult to get right.

Love: great deals on kits that turn out well with minimal effort

Hate: botching $60+ kits by spilling liquid cement, completely f-ing up the paint job, or gravity testing off the bench.

Hate:  Anything and all seam related work.  I am never satisfied with my seam work.  I've abandoned many  builds due to it.  Brush-painting is a close second.

Love:  Everything else,mainly the Airbrushing phase.

I get really irritated when them little parts zing off into oblivion .

All is happy when they finally return from their trip to oblivion .

Least favourite is filling and sanding (largely because scribing is my weakest area, and I inevitably need to rescribe after sanding...which only causes more areas to sand...)

My favourite area is painting - especially airbrushing, but i also love painting a detailed cockpit, when you start to see all the little nuances pop out with dry brushing and washes.

I think my favorite part is putting the wings on the plane.  To me, that's when it finally looks like a cool airplane!

My least favorite part, all the fiddly parts at the end like all the antennas, the bombs, the yellow propeller tips, the waist guns that had to be left off to keep them from breaking, etc...

Eric

Least...masking and sanding

Favorite: Painting (when the paint cooperates) and peeling off the cockpit mask.

Oh yeah, try the Monogram B-36.

Hi reasoned. Don't know that one, but then I research and read all the reviews I can find before I buy a kit.

Actually, there was a kit I bought years ago that just wouldn't fit together which became mish-mash combined with some bits left over from some kit that was crap and became a one-off of something that has faded into history, where it shall remain.

I don't really remember being frustrated with it though. I don't even remember what the stupid thing was now.

I dislike masking, I detest clear parts.

I love assembly and gluing.

Even though I dont do aircraft or armor, spaceships and scifi vehicles are pretty close to the same thing.

Another vote for a seam hater.

Assembly is my favorite. Which probably explains why 90% of my unfinished kits are at the post assembly pre seam/painting stagess.

Love-hate relationship with road wheels.

On one hand, there are so many of them, they are all the same (boring), my hands are a bit trembling so they are a bit of a not so wellcomed challenge.

On the other hand, this is just a hobby, I am not in any rush to finish the model, few hours to kill in the evening so the more road wheels the longer it keeps me occupied.

Cheers...

Least:  masking canopies.  Best:  when everything is falling together in final assembly, and then ... I get to look at the finished product.

Old Ordie

Least:  masking canopies.  Best:  when everything is falling together in final assembly, and then ... I get to look at the finished product.

^There^

what he said!!