Ted Hayward takes a brief look at Cyber-hobby's recent multi-turreted Neubau-Fahrzeug in 1/35th scale.

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Great review, Ted. But tell me, how does the future Dragon release and this one differ from each other?

Given that this review is supposed to be a "First Look", or Preview, I'd have expected to see many more photos of the sprues, and definitely more close-ups of the parts. Even if the majority of the 600 parts are the track links, so many more parts have gone unrepresented in this review.

Sorry, but I expected more from this review of this pricey, limited edition kit (the fact that DML has since released the kit at half the price is irrelevant).

Rudi, I don't think you can criticise the review given the price you paid to read it..

Warren,

Consider this from another angle: would you as the supplier of this review sample be satisfied with the review? Has the product been sufficiently and fairly represented to allow for a consumer to make a purchasing decision?

Now for the rant bit of this reply: I have certain expectations when reading reviews (free or not) on this Network, and I've contributed a few reviews as well. Similarly when reading reviews by Terry Ashley, Vinnie Brannigan, Saul Garcia or a number of other reviewers I follow I have certain expectations. Unfortunately the quality of this review, and several others recently I'm afraid, have not met my expectations nor the standards I expected when I was a staff member.

How do reviewers expect to improve upon their quality if critique isn't given? How does Kitmaker Network expect to maintain a certain quality of review if a baseline of standards are not set or enforced? I see a lot of b*tching about readers not commenting on reviews (and I've done my fair share of ranting behind closed doors about this too) , yet lately it appears only "attaboys" are desired. I can speak only for myself, but as a reviewer I actually want to hear if people think my reviews are false, misleading or don't meet their expectations.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion, and this is merely mine. If anyone wishes to debate this further, in the interests of not letting this thread go too off-topc, feel free to take this offline via email or start a new thread about review standards and quality.

Rudi