I think we all enjoy others opinions as long as they are the same as ours
I don't have much interest in rivet counters. I don't build for rivet counters so i don't have a lot of interest in their opinion. I build whatever i fancy that week and while i do visual research for colours and general detail it would be imposable to have rivet counter knowledge for every motorcycle,race car, Aeroplane or tank i wanted to build unless i wanted to change my hobby from building to researching. It seems daft to me to impose those sort of limitations on what you feel comfortable building before you start. i think its important to build to please your own eye first and foremost, if others like it too then its a bonus. Sometimes you see builds where someone has has completely altered the profile of a kit because its not quite corresct !! each to their own i say but to me they have completely missed the point :laugh:
Would i tell them ? No. the reason is i would never be so presumptuous to put myself in a position of claiming to know better or do better than anyone else, its not for me to cast judgement on someone else's best efforts. There is one build on this site at the moment that i think is a massive fail !!
would i tell the builder ?? absolutely not !! whether we like it or not we all have to exercise discretion
....We cant really say that build is awful any more than we can say your wife is ugly
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder be it the Mrs or a ME109