The worst I've ever had was when I bought several fantasy armies at once and in my excitement decided to base and undercoat the lot in one massive blitz to get that over with. Tedious enough at the best of times but I'd been a cheapskate and picked up a spray can from the £1 shop. Looked ok at first but then the paint just started peeling off.

Total fiasco. Had to strip them and do them all again for the sake of a couple of quid. I was cursing myself for that one.

Finding time to actually play the games.  I can squeeze painting and basing and rules reading into the odd 20-minutes here or there, but knocking down the honeydo list down to a reasonable number of items so I can sneak out of the house to game for a few hours without feeling guilty about it - that's the real chore.

1. Cleaning off flash - especially when I find I've carefully and laboriously cut off what was part of the figure.

2. Having to remodel a bit of a figure I just cut off thinking it was flash.

Congratulating a cocky opponent on winning.

Quote from: WeeWars on 27 July 2012, 05:19:24 PM
1. Cleaning off flash - especially when I find I've carefully and laboriously cut off what was part of the figure.

2. Having to remodel a bit of a figure I just cut off thinking it was flash.

I completely agree. 

Painting, or rather repainting, stuff you bought ready painted to "save time"

For example I recently bought 16 28mm metal wolf riders on Ebay, they looked nicely painted in the photos, a sort of gray flesh which wasn't my first choice for goblins, but it would do. But when they arrive, some of them are green skinned 
I have no complaints about the painting standard and looking really closely at the photos I now see a hint of green skin in the back ranks, so I missed that.
I game Middle Earth in 28mm and hate green goblins/orcs. So now I have to repaint the exposed flesh, which is still faster than painting from scratch, but there are other things I wanted to paint right now!

Removing those fiddly little bits of sprue connecting a horse's belly to its base.

I'd have to agree with rebasing.

I do love sets of rules that either use common base size assumptions or are base size agnostic.

Quote from: sunjester on 28 July 2012, 03:16:45 PM
Painting, or rather repainting, stuff you bought ready painted to "save time"

For example I recently bought 16 28mm metal wolf riders on Ebay,

I thought you had enough Orcs !!!!!!. 

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 14 August 2012, 07:35:39 AM
I thought you had enough Orcs !!!!!!. 

I have enough orcs on foot, but you can never have enough wolf riders can you! 

Quote from: sunjester on 14 August 2012, 02:31:51 PM
I have enough orcs on foot, but you can never have enough wolf riders can you! 

And you told me 64 was enough !!!!!!.  Double standards methinks

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 14 August 2012, 04:40:27 PM
And you told me 64 was enough !!!!!!.  Double standards methinks

As long as he did not want 5 more.... 

Orcs are NEVER enough.

1st most worst thing: Is when you spend a good long time painting all the detail on the models (guns, straps etc...) then you get them outside for the once over with the Army painter anti-shine varnish, then (after you have sprayed) you spot one German trooper with an unpainted MP40 or another where you missed his belt! grrrrrrr! angry!

2nd most worst thing: Jim Ando blowing the crap out of your afrika korps with his stupid artillery, when you spend all week painting it and it has not even fired a shot in anger then you pack it away in the case! double grrrrrrr!