Hmm..
Bit underwhelmed afa scale looks/proportions go. Bit like the Bomber. There’s something off between bodysize/wheelbase/tiresize.
I had hoped for an absolute scale-true appearance. Alas.
It seems that performance came a bit before scale, and it is significantly more catered to hard-core crawling than, say, a Bomber, or a Wraith. For the hard-core crowd that must be quite satisfying, because they whined a bit that, said, Wraith and Bomber were too fast and more geared towards bombing over tracks through speed, instead of technical driving at a snail’s pace.
I have to admit that I dó like the gearbox, and hope it will be offered loose.. permitting the posts fit every other Axial bottom plate. Could be a good one for an SMT10 v2. ( that quite possibly never will be released, given the lacklustre sales of the SMT10)
I guess the more technical crawling people are going to snap this one up like crazy. I mean.. a dig as standard, metal links everywhere and portals, so far less hanging-up the pumpkins on those wide axles. Axial should have gone a tàd further, though, and add a baggie of stick-on wheel-weights, since about èveryone adds those to their rigs. Would have been jùst that little ‘extra’ in a kit.
But. Well. It’s not for me. I just cannot get over those ‘off’ looking proportions. That’s just me. Most people interested in crawling couldn’t care less if stuff was a little ‘off’ as long as the performance was there. And that seems to be the case here, seeing the video. ( Trujillo said he added some wheelweights to the one shown in the vid. And that was it. All stock for the rest of it.)
