I see your point, bud, and can't help agreeing with it. I think its better to correct my previous post in the way that its better not to meet the situation when you are working on the models which are not really interesting to you only in order to prepare for your shelf queen. In other ways its alright - I too have a couple of kits I've bought in order only to make them mine, but which I'm not currently taking on 'cause I don't want to spoil them (which at the moment I think I'll do =)) want thus make the money I've spent on them thrown into trash.

On the other hand, when you're working on the subjects you do like (which seems the only logical way) it is always the fear of making it not completely the way you want them to look in the start of the build. And as for me it is always true. But always making your job better and better, always growing over yourself, and always trying to make as close to ideal as it is possible (without falling to fanatism of coarce) is the exact way of getting close to the level when the model of your dream can get on your workbench, and achieve what it seems to me Jamaicanmodels69 was expressing in this vid  -constant development on the road to perfection (never reachable I thing though) Its just important sometimes to step over yourself and say "ok, I've done the best I could here, its time now to turn on a new project, and, knowing what mistakes are behind it now - correct them and do even better"

To find a golden place between trying to make the model absolutely perfect and puting hands down thinking its nothing left possible to do here - thats the way to growing skills and not loosing all the fun of our hobby imho.