While i am sure all the seniors at deagostini are already aware i would suggest that any future models issued as partworks steer clear of being electronic based.
While prototype and production models may perform to perfection potential manufacturing faults, user build errors, just seem to fill the post boards with numerous problems.
I do feel for the builders that have invested time and more importantly money in something they have tried to build and it fails to perform.
All this is doing is degrading deagostini's reputation especially when its virtually impossible to offer the builder no more than a few lines that may or may not resolve their problem. The facility to sit next to the builder and work through the issue is not an option with a partwork.
I am 100% sure someone will remind me that there are loads of builders that have had no issues at all with their builds (R2D2) in particular. And for them i would say well done, but remember reputation is never earned on the 100 happy people but is lost on the 1 with the problems.
So my advice (for what its worth) is stick to glue together or bolt together and leave all of the electronic stuff out of the equation.
Tony
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