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

once its time to weather and add washes....oddly enough after that is when I am most satisfied with the outcome....second would be making and painting canopies...

Least favorite:  filling and sanding.

Favorite: The "bookends."  There's something great about the first parts coming together into sub-assemblies when you first feel the thrill of the potential of the kit that's equal ( for me ) to taking care of those finishing touches to complete that initial vision.

Least: Buying everything.  That includes the kit, paint, tape, glue, tools, eventually some after-market stuff.  I just don't like spending money.  It's worth it, and I'll do it, but I just don't like it.

Most: Teaching my daughter about the hobby.  We are having a blast with our P-40 builds.  And I do enjoy every aspect of the build.  There are not any parts that I am dreading, nor are there any parts that I wish I could just skip over.  It is all fun for me.

I don't like masking: Earlier this year it took me hours to mask the lower half of a 1/24-scale Minicraft Rolls Royce model, and once I finally got it masked and the model outdoors for spray painting, it only took a few minutes to put the paint on. The painting itself might be my favorite part.

This model also had ejector pin marks right where you can see them, so I had the "joy" of dealing with those!

In reading this thread I noticed a lack of ship comments,at least  they DON,T have roadwheels! Now what I do hate is ejection pin marks on decks and tight visible areas.I don,t like splinter camo either.I do like what-if,s and conversions too.

I also absoultely DON,T like 1/700 anything.I have some I got as gifts(those will get built) and some that weren,t available any other way. Now how about the poor selection of civilian vessels of any type.I DON,T like the TITANIC !( TOO MANY OF THEM!) She did have history making sisters.

Enough on supercarriers,Too many of those as well..How about the history making MIDWAYS? (HORNET,INTREPID,and yes the MIDWAY)The ships never seem to catchup.Why not a 1/350 FRAM-GEARING from the NAM ERA?      TANKER-builder

Love weathering, Icing on the cake, after the coating has been doene. Hate rigging. Parts tend to snap by the slightest tension. Hate joints and gaps.