by Cosmic Bilby » Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:52 am
Apols for the delay in reading the review Jeremy,
....Have been flat out!
Mate, great review, I can see an awful lot of good in this model from a technical viewpoint, its a very crisp presentation and obviously well thought out.
I like it, I think Black Arrow will do well.
For me personally the lack of a magnet is a hindrance, I have always been a magnet racer primarily and that will never change. Sure I can race ok without mag, but I really enjoy the speed factor of magnet racing, plus if set-up correctly magnet cars will always give a more realistic action on-track.
I think my recent look at the Scaleauto Honda brought this home for me, the 1/24th cars have the "X" factor big time for me, really fun to punt around and that is due to their dimensions I think, a magnet is superfluous.
Anyway, enough about magnets, I found it quite refreshing to note the manufacturer actually admitting liberties had been taken with the dimensions of the model instead of constant (and ludicrous) denials by some others over the years.
The Black Arrow Aston Martin is a purpose built "Racer" and obviously proud of that fact, I can respect that!
Good work mate.