Meh.
If some enjoy the hobby more by building a model with a high level of accuracy, great, more power to 'em.
We can each buy and build what we like, the way we like (hat tip to the late Al Superczynski of Internet Modeler, that was his motto. I adopted it).
That’s what I do, but anyone else can do what he wants.
Best regards,
Brad
Very well said….yes, my models are very close to realistic. Only the master expects would find the inconsistencies. But no matter, I really enjoy this hobby
Like others - build what makes you happy your way. To the rivet counters I always say … ‘ya, the real one is much bigger and not made of plastic’ 
Everyone has their preferences. This is a hobby, so there is no right or wrong way. Personally, I build them with as much accuracy as possible. There are no live hobby shows around here, but I like having built a model with that amount of accuracy anyway. If you don’t like the “too much emphasis,” that’s you, but there are other modelers who enjoy the emphasis on accuracy and detail.
LOVE IT! That is cute.
I won’t regurgitate what I posted in your other thread, I’ll just link it here…
On the other hand, I am a sucker for wanting to add details to any void in a model. In the past I’ve detailed landing gear bays on some aircraft that once fully assembled 90% becomes unseen. Currently contemplating and planning a complete build of the three bomb bays in a 1/72 B1-B with a full load of conventional bombs and JDAMS.
My biggest weakness is 1/35 armour interiors. I have multiple projects on the go with full interiors being built, even though most work won’t be visible in the end. So far I am working on an M-8 HMC, StuG IIIg, StuH IIIg, Bergepanther and an M61A5 gundam tank (among others) all with full interiors. Some are 100% scratch built as there were no available kits when I started and I’m not going to replace my hard work with new 3D print (even if it becomes available). I kind of got hooked on this by the old Verlinden resin, when they started making engines and transmissions for WWII tanks.
I tend to enjoy the research and problem solving required for this type of building, to the point where some kits don’t get finished on the outside once the inside is complete because that part doesn’t interest me as much. Thus I have many kits that never see the outside world, especially not the contest tables, but I’ve enjoyed the heck out of what I have done.
Frozin, you’ve summed up this discussion right there when you said that you enjoyed the heck out of the process. As long as YOU’RE enjoying a build is all that matters.
That is why I gave up doing military models (plane)and now only do civilian cars as there is no exact to them as people can customize as they like
True, you can customize a model car. But there is just as much attention to detail, and an accompanying rivet counting, with car modeling as with other subjects.
It doesn’t matter the subject in modeling-some will prefer more detail than others. Even in science fiction models, there are those who will demand that their ship, alien, weapon, etc, will look exactly like the one in the movie, or as described in the book. And in the case of science fiction, rivet counters will refer to “canon”, as opposed to the technical manuals or orders historical modelers do.
We come back to “Build what you want, the way you want.”
Hopefully you didn’t give up doing military planes because of other people’s expectations.It’s your hobby to pursue the way you want.
And by the the way,welcome to FSM,no judgements here,but if your open to constructive criticism,then you’ll get it here
@Frozin - Like you, I was one for doing very detailed interiors that would only partially barely been seen or not at all with doors open or through a canopy. Having now been satisfied that I can make very good looking realistic interiors that can’t be “seen”, I have stopped putting all the time and effort into that and instead focus my energies on exteriors and dioramas. My interiors of anything are now minimal. I also have other hobbies unrelated to scale model building so I need to focus my time on what I and others will see.
I am getting too old for extreme detail, but the last two or three special aircraft I built really made a point pertinent to this discussion. Any time you are temped to worry about the details being exact, realize that your typical “thin” model aircraft skin is probably a couple of inches thick at that scale! Much discretion is advised.
I’m no rivet counter by any means, but I do like to do as much research as I can on the subject I’m building. I’ll fix all the big stuff that I know of, and some of the small stuff. I built an F-105F for a back seater that flew in them in Vietnam. It wasn’t until after I was completely finished, that I realized that this variant did not have an anti-collision light on top of the spine. I had to cut it off, fill, sand, primer, and repaint the small area. Lesson learned!
That’s what I wrote about previously - you have to simplify stuff to make scale models. But that doesn’t mean you have to have things on your model that are just plain wrong. Like that anti collision light in the post above. But IF you didn’t want to do that extra work I sure wouldn’t tell you you have to!
I simply enjoy building the kits as is. I feel no need to “accurize” a build.
I have not yet stepped into the world of applying after market details, but I do have several kits where I did get those optional bits. Not with any intent to make a particular subject more accurate. The after market was picked up because I liked the look of what they offered much better than what was provided in the original kit.
As has been said many times in many different ways throughout this thread, “to each their own”. I think this general attitude of the membership is one of the reasons we have such a great community here. 
Cbowling, great "touch up"job on that F-105 and that was a great gesture on your part building that model of that veteran’s plane. BTW, from the pictures you provided, you did an awesome job on that "Thud"too.
Probably, in the way we humans do, to varying amounts.
There are details of “IRL” like when things are painted by hand, that would just look like “bad modeling” if rendered that way in a model.
In the ship modeling community, there’s a huge emphasis on being exact, as, all too often, even ships built to a Class, were very individual and distinct. (This is not helped by the kit manufacturers passing off a given ship as another, or several others, even when they are as different as a Hurricane to a Spitfire.)
Against that, are situations where one is modeling a very specific real world item–Tiger 131 leaps to mind. We know exactly how that vehicle appears today. We even have some decent research on what it looked like, before, as well. So, getting that ‘exactly’ right is very possible, and down to how much a person wants to be that exact.
But, in the end, it’s our model, not the world’s.
Well said CapnMac! I agree with everything you said.
I read this post after having posted my own : “Half Rat Half Rod”
My post seems to reinforce all the comments made.
“Build what you like. And like what you build.”
