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On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give them a 7. Many reviews tend to give too much attention to the positives and not enough to the negatives. Not that a reviewer should bloody the nose of the manufacturer, but errors and omissions should, and must, be pointed out. Many reviews fail to do this with consistency. No product is perfect. As has been seen over the past few years, reviews of products in magazines can often be late because opinions from equally qualified modelers are showing up on forums almost as soon as the products are reaching the hobby shops. The difference between reality and the reviews is sometimes startling. Consider the differences between MR's review of Life-Like's SD60 and the numerous problems that model has had working in a consist with other HO scale locomotives. I'm tending to trust more what I read on forums more due to the wider variety of opinions from these equally qualified modelers (compared with the "experts" at the magazines). While the magazines will deny it, there is internal pressure for them not to write anything too negative about a product from a key advertiser. Forum posters have little to lose; the magazines stand to lose advertising. C424
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