I decided to quit hijacking Shenlonco's awesome 1/24 battlefield thread and start my own, and offer a bit of review for anyone interested or debating grabbing a few of these. I received my VSX Tiger v. Sherman combo two days ago, and so far am pleased with the little guys! Speed is much slower than the older VS*R models that I usually ran off the side of tables, and seems close to scale considering the small size of these tanks. I just ran one to check run time, and stopped after 20 minutes when it started slowing down and having a bit of trouble turning. I believe that VS says run time is 15 minutes. From that point it took exactly 10 minutes to recharge the battery. The controller has a small compartment that contains a charging cord that plugs into a port on the bottom of the tank.
I measured the shooting distance yesterday and was making hits at 19 feet. This is also about the max driving range from the transmitter. Tank movement is controlled using the left stick, and the right stick is for turret rotation. The turrets almost rotate 180 degrees, from about 10 o'clock to 2 o'clock. Main gun fire is from a button on the right side front of the transmitter, and the left side has a button for machine gun. A 5-10 second burst with the machine gun registers a hit on the tank, and the tank is disabled after 5 hits from either gun. The tank itself has no speaker [duh, these things are small!], and the main gun and machine gun sounds come from the transmitter.
Tracks are rubber bank type, and time will tell how they hold up. The Sherman tracks are pretty thin compared to the Tigers, and at first the Sherman was having difficulty running in reverse. I took the tracks off and ran it a bit, and it works better now. I don't know if this served as a break in for the gears or what, but it's working now.
I wanted to build an indoor battlefield like Shen's, but don't have the room for 1/24 so decided to get these and do the same thing on a smaller scale. I'll post pictures as it develops!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njV2kNst2q0