well i have 1/24 tanks also and 1/16 tamiya and HL and motorro and i have to admit i always find myself taking out the 1/24 tanks they are smaller but they do hold there own i have run them in places where my 1/16 scale tanks break down abut the 1/24 go strong and are riding over much worse ground for there size than the 1/16 tanks do!
The only bad thing on the 1/24 is that they sound all the same and the radio is not like a real rc full proportional ...BUT Steve at toyeast is making up 2.4 upgrade electronics and radios for installment in any VS 1/24 tank it's said to have many sound options and smooth proportional control....and another thing is with the older snap together plastic VS tracks they where good enough to make the 1/24 tanks go many places but now the new plastic tracks have metal pins in them so now the 1/24 tanks should go anyware!!! that was the fault of the old VS plastic tracks the poped apart because they only snapped together now with the metal pins i see VS tanks going over and through stuff even that much better!

Reaseon so many guy's talk about 1/16 tanks is because they are much easier to paint and detail due to there size and also because they break so much theres always alot of topics about fixing them... you rarely see topics on VS tanks because they don't break like 1/16 tanks do...if they did there would be tons of posts about the 1/24 tanks then.... Once these 1/24 tanks kit's come out the 2.4 with ultra smooth controles and many sound options the 1/24 scale will BOOM because like I told Steve at toyeast the main reasone the 1/24 are set behind is they are toyish sounding and drive not as good as a proprtional tamiya type tank.... once the 2.4 hits the shelves 1/24 will EXPLODE in popularity!!!
I mentioned to Steve that the 2.4 is top priority...they thought it was not but after descussing it on another board with other guy's he is putting a hault on other VS products and pushing the 2.4 fulll speed ahead!!