Heck, I know I'm pretty mediocre. I have good points but I still have problems with suspensions for pete's sake. I don't build exactly accurate models all the time, but if I think it's good, I'll post it. I welcome people to say what's wrong with it. Take my rustbucket DodgeA100: first it was just a rusty body. Then a couple people said, "Looks good, but why is just a body in Under Glass?" That motivated me to dig around for the rest of the parts and I feel it's one of my best ones.
I need to do some routine maintenance on it but I'm having trouble finding time here.
As for the community, I feel everyone here is gracious and kindhearted. Even when there is something wrong with a model, nobody is really a jerk about it, and most times the modeler know about the fault, and a laugh is had by all including the builder on the air of the mistake,
As a showoff I'm glad I found this forum. It's also good for farming ideas and drooling over other people's beautiful cars.
Mine aren't even CLOSE to theirs but I haven't had anybody say "Mine's better, yours sucks" to me, nor have I seen anybody say this AT ALL.
I think the forum is fine.