So as mentioned the other day I relented and purchased my youngest (13 years old) a Kill Team box. He wanted either the scouts or the enforcers. So as our local toy shop only had the scouts he went for that.
I may have commented on my view on these miniatures in an earlier post.
This evening I finished the last three. Sadly he had got some of the legs wrong in his early miniatures. As he was so disheartened I promised I would get them sorted. I used clippers, Greenstuff and a whole load of expletives to make them usable.
So here we have three sort of generations of Scouts…
The painted one was done by me in the early 90’s the red ones in about 2012 and the grey ones last month.
My totally unscientific complexity build grading is as follows
Painted…. doddle… glue a couple of arms on a mini.
Red…. bugger at times…trying to make the arms line up with the weapons and each other.
Grey… Absolute Bastard… too complex, badly organised part layout. I spent more time trying to find a part than I did glueing things together.
To be honest I felt that the ‘snap fit’ Tyranids were a pain in the arsenal. The scouts just about finished me off.
Hopefully his motivation will have returned by time I get them undercoated.
I will also hopefully be motivated to carry on with my Scouts tomorrow too.
Bogenwald 
I hear ya, some of those GW minis are an absolute nightmare putting together!
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Games who?
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I wish I could say that too.
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Shots fired, Guru, Shots Fired!
But, I’m with you!!!
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Boooooom!
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I learned a hard lesson trying to put the new Necromunda Van Saar models together by the eye. These days I follow the instructions closely for all GW models.
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While I gave up on GW when I lost interest in playing 8-hour long games, I did try “Kill Team” when it first surfaced, still too overly rules intensive for a skirmish-level game, IMHO. At that time I looked at the newer minis, and they just seemed so over the top in detail that I couldn’t tell what they were trying to be!
I can only imagine what nightmares were cooked up with that level of un necessary details. That said, I do remember have some moments with getting arms and bodies to align if you wanted the marine/guardsman/’nid/tau/etc to look like they were actually holding a weapon.
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I have to agree with you on all points, especially the newest models. GW like putting part 22 on a separate sprue to part 21 & 23, and if you dare to stray from the instructions then you are in for a hard time with assembly. The old space marines you could throw together without even glancing at the instructions
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