In rec.models.railroad LDosser wrote: : : You have experience with this?? : Direct, personnal experience? No. I will not accept consignment work, and I am too egotistical to pay somebody to do the work I can do. Eventually. :-)
However, I look at the "professionally built" models on ebay, and most of what I look at is nowhere near my standards.
I am also aware of a very poor modeler who won first place at an IPMS/USA National contest (for plastic models), advertised that he was such a modeler (only entry in air- craft dioramas), and got some fool to send him a very expensive kit to build. It did not end well.
Was the guy lying about his accomplishments? No. Was he misrepresenting his abilities? Oh yes.
Bruce