This month's Nashorn review Dec 2010

Was anyone else out there as disappointed in the build quality of the Nashorn kit review in this month's issue as I was?  The travel lock was obviously not placed properly and the staple used on the track was as big as a junkie's syringe and glared out at the viewer, and there was obviously no attempt to even hide it!  There are better ways to hide a staple, like under the road wheels and not over them where nothing can cover them.  The paint and weathering weren't too bad, but the whitewash did not even look close to a field applied job, but it more resembled the kind of job done when a modeler gets in a hurry and doesn't pay attention to the most logical things, like armor gets repainted in the field by troops, and it was usually done with a mop on the Russian front, and was never so neatly applied as to have feathered edges, even after it weathered for a while.  Besides, I thought the purpose of a review build was to highlight the kits features, not impress the viewer with the builder's weathering abilities or airbrush techniques.  Sorry Mike Scharf, but I know you can do better, I think I've seen much better work from you before, and this kind of photo or build does not represent the quality of work I know you can do, and it shines a poor light on a great magazine.  I hope I'm not the only guy out there that is so picky that I am ruining the hobby for us all, but I rarely complain in such a forum, but I'm a worthy judge at contests, a good builder (I did a few armor kits for  noted armor collector near Palo Alto, CA who hates his name mentioned without just compensation, and I have dioramas in the Museum of Occupation in Riga Latvia and the ChTZ museum of tanks and military vehicles in Chelyabinsk, Russia) and I notice the details.