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Simon Dunkley
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I tried my hand at S7, but it didn't quite work for me. In theory, it should have been a case of wider frame spacers, longer axles and different wheel profiles (32mm to 33mm is pretty much the same as EM to 18.83, after all) but I was astounded by the awfulness of the sample of things I tried: by the time errors had been corrected, missing detail added, holes filled, bumps flattened, cast or moulded details refined or replaced, it struck me that scratch building would not have taken much longer, and to me the whole point was that as an established scale, I should have had a head-start from kits.After all, a scale of 7mm to 1', or 1:43.542857 is a silly thing to use, unless there is lots of trade support.
Maybe I was unlucky, but I bought kits from leading ranges and based on products with glowing reviews (even in MRJ) and I was sadly disappointed.
Mind you, not long after I gave up on it and went back to one Imperial* scale and into an additional one, things improved, but there you go. I was disappointed by how backward things seemed, and how little forward movement there had been, and the tasting session had failed to delight my tastebuds, and it was too late by then as I had been seduced by the greater mass and presence of One32.
*I like dividing by two, or multiples thereof, as the sums are easier. Also, it suits computers better, being binary...
Maybe I was unlucky, but I bought kits from leading ranges and based on products with glowing reviews (even in MRJ) and I was sadly disappointed.
Mind you, not long after I gave up on it and went back to one Imperial* scale and into an additional one, things improved, but there you go. I was disappointed by how backward things seemed, and how little forward movement there had been, and the tasting session had failed to delight my tastebuds, and it was too late by then as I had been seduced by the greater mass and presence of One32.
*I like dividing by two, or multiples thereof, as the sums are easier. Also, it suits computers better, being binary...