This looks awesome but I just can't hold it in any longer.
If you don't plan to release it there's no reason in my mind to show it off to people. They'll never get it, what's the point?
Are you trying to make people jealous or something?
Sorry for being rude.
I just personally don't understand why you would show off something that's so intricate, accurate, and detailed but that you have no intention of sharing or selling.
Why bother making anything, if you don't plan to sell it? Ask yourself the following question: why does a painter paint? Why does a sculptor sculpt? Why does a carpenter carve?
There's no obligation, here on the 405th or elsewhere, to release the models we create. Sometimes, we create simply for the pleasure of creating, and to share our artistic vision with other members of this community - there's no intent to make people jealous, or to wave things in front of them and say 'see this? You can't have it'.
It's an unfortunate case with communities like this that some of the members become accustomed to being given resources for nothing, and develop a sense of entitlement for every creation that's shown off. Nobody here
deserves anything - modellers like myself,
Master Builder and
Mflanny34 create because we
want to, and it's a happy consequence of our creative drive and ambition that
sometimes leads to the general public receiving the content we create. Other times, things are created with other purposes in mind - either for display, or with the intent to produce exclusive props for sale through other means, which is the case here.
If you'd like to understand the thought processes behind keeping content private or exclusive, I'd invite you to begin learning the process of modelling and try your hand at creating pieces yourself. and then realise how generous the community here is by sharing the content we produce so freely. 3D modelling is
hard, and the fact that we do so at all doesn't automatically entitle the community to every single thing we produce. Please don't get sucked into the mindset of 'I see it, therefore I deserve it'. You don't have to own a copy of the file to be able to enjoy it - regardless of whether that enjoyment comes from looking at the piece as an artistic venture, or as a resource for prop creation. Be grateful that
Mflanny34 has bothered to share his creative vision with us at all, and don't question his desire to have the content he creates as exclusive pieces.
I likewise apologise if I seem a little too forthright and demanding in this response - however, it's
extremely important that you understand that, while the generosity of the people that produce content for the community is what keeps this community thriving, you're not automatically entitled to every file the modelling community creates. Consider these pieces a museum display - you don't have to own them in order to enjoy them.