Worst Ship Model you have ever built

The worst was the 1/72 Armageddon LCT-6 kit I bought a couple of years ago. It was limited edition and expensive, but my Dad sailed in one to D-Day, so I dropped the $140. Not a single piece fit properly, the directions sucked, and I ended up scratchbuilding a good part of it. Yeccchh!!

 

Steve

Hi! Your local raving maniac here.......Worst; Adj. that which is too easy, does not provide any challenge, everything is there and fits perfectly, requires no modeling skill to assemble, has instructions that actually instruct.  As long as the major components are relatively accurate, and I can scratch the details that the kit doesn't provide.......I can carve off the offending stuff, and enjoy the art of superdetailing to the level I enjoy, or am willing to quit at. To put it simply, I am in the hobby of modelbuilding (trains, planes, cars, ships/boats, buildings, sci fi craft, etc.. So! the worst kit, would be the one that I couldn't do something with. The "worst kit", would be the "shake-and-bake" kit.....rattle the box a few times, and  POOF dump out the finished product....where's the fun in that!?

warshipguy wrote:

Eric, You may be referring to the so-called 1/600 scale Aurora Bismarck; it was absolutely awful!  As for my nominations for the worst ship kits, how about the Lindberg American Cleveland class CL's and their HMS Hood, Bismarck, and Tirpitz?  I wouldn't even call them decent toys! Bill Morrison

Maybe it was an Aurora Bismarck...REALLY bad! The Lindberg Bismark and Hood were pretty much rubbish as well, but at least they went together easily and made good pool toys in their day (I think Lindberg may still make them!!).  I remember building the Lindberg Hood, and it went to its eventual doom in Buzzards Bay, on fire, and sinking fast!....In fact, as I recall just about every Lindberg ship kit in the '60's and '70's was pretty bad, but they were actively seeking the 'cheap and cheerful' market at the time (compare that with the pricing and accuracy on their latest 1/72 Japanese submarine kit!).....

The revell "pirate ship". I got it for my daughter, big fan of the POC movie. What a piece of junk. Actually, since I never bothered finishing it, does not qualfy as worst BUILT ;)

 

PS Manny,I thought you only sunk merchant ships ;)

 

Eric,

You may be referring to the so-called 1/600 scale Aurora Bismarck; it was absolutely awful!  As for my nominations for the worst ship kits, how about the Lindberg American Cleveland class CL's and their HMS Hood, Bismarck, and Tirpitz?  I wouldn't even call them decent toys!

Bill Morrison

About 200 meters from my childhood home is a lake of about 1/2 acre...a 1/700 scale Kaga has resided on the lake's floor for over thirty years...

Back when I was a kid many years ago, I got a model of the Bismarck, which as I recall was by Revell (but I might be wrong!), at around 1/570 scale.  What a piece of junk!  The whole shape of the hull was wrong, the deck was so distorted that I had to use half a roll of tape just to clamp the thing down until the glue dried, and because I had not expected to have such problems with this I ended up getting airplane glue all over the model, myself, the bench, and broke off one of the turrets.  What a mess!  But firecrackers and BB guns were still readily available in those days, and it shortly ended up on the bottom of the river (where undoubtedly it still is to this day).....