Its always occured to me that chinese designers have never quite sussed the difference between toys and models.
I have a vs tiger in airsoft which is a brilliant scale model but the only thing that lets it down is the toy-like recoil.
A short blip of reverse would have been perfect, but no, they gave it far too much reverse and then the same amount forwards.
I saw a video of the vs infra-red and this thing ,when shot, shakes around like a two year olds toy. Why not have the lights slowly expire and then need to manually reset it?, Far more appropriate for a model, surely and would cost no more.
All the HL tigers and panthers have silver painted sprockets and idlers, why? surely it must cost more to paint these silver.
I can understand the inaccuracies, but not those that must cost more to produce.
The HL recoil is also apparently terrible(i'll find out for myself out this week)
I suppose these tanks are made to appeal to all ages but anybody who does run one of these needs to be pretty knowledgeable when it comes to electrical and mechanical repairs.
I'm not knocking HL or VS, but surely they must know that the average age of buyers is well above 10.
And for any Tamiya owners reading this, Tamiya are not immune to this sort of thing.
I spent a weeks wages buying a KT in the eighties( still got it) and with the supplied speed controler and gearing it had a minimum scale speed of 30mph (when the speed controler cut in) and maxed out at 60mph, totally spoiling any scale appearance and not what i expected from the most expensive tank kit of the day.
Rant over,
Geoff