FWIW:
Monitoring another thread around these parts it seems that the idea and consensus is that some think I was being granted a favor by having those comments issued to me in the most unconstructive way possible. Some even felt my work wasn't good enough to display.
Seems this is a place full of old men who're masters of their craft in this hobby. I'm a Jr. Varsity second-string football player in a Jr. High School team trying to play with the NFL. I'm clearly out classed and out of my league here.
Might be back, might not be. I've no problem with criticism, critique all you want but I do have a problem with attitude and presentation of those critcisms and if that's how an established poster treats a n00b then I don't think I want to know the kind of critiques I'd be served after being more rooted in this.... "community."
As I said there's criticism and then there's just being an [donkey].
It's one thing to say I need work, improve my skills, take more time, offer suggestions on things (I'm still trying to "master" buffing on some old/discarded bodies I have.) It's another thing to take my work and rip it to shreds as that poster did. It's like taking the first draft of someone's writting and ripping it up for minor grammar errors. We all have to start somewhere and those models, for now, represent the "best" I can do. The "Christine" model represented some of the most time I've spent on the model and the most work I've done on one to get the two-tone look of the roof/body and the body/fins. It was ripped up because it looked like the smoked glass was brushed on (it wasn't) and something to do with the hood's fit (which I've no idea it fits like that it sits flush with the fenders and the detailing chrome lines up, near as I can tell it's "supposed" to be like that).
So, whatever.
As I said, I may be back. I've got other issues IRL to work out first.