I played some of my old cassettes a few years back – and was amazed at how “slow” the songs sounded when played through a streaming service – it turns out the cassette player on my old hi-fi had always played the tapes ever-so-slightly too quickly! But I’d just got used to hearing the songs that way and came to accept that was the tempo they should have been.

As an aside, a lot of songs in the 80s/90s were played in Eb tuning on a guitar (many people believed it was so the guitar players could hit widdly-widdly note-squealing guitar solos, but it’s just as likely to be it’s easier for an alto sax to play in concert pitch Eb – and a *lot* of rock songs in the 80s had saxophone on them too) but my slightly-sped-up tape player effectively put them in E which made it easier to play along to on the guitar in standard tuning. I just assumed they were playing at the correct tempo/pitch because I could play along!

@limburger makes the point:

If you have crappy sketches and an incompetent digital sculptor then you’re not going to have the same end result as a traditional sculpt

But this is a bit like comparing apples to oranges. Because if you’ve an incompetent digital sculptor, you’re never going to get the same result as a *competent* traditional sculptor – but you might get close to an incompetent traditional sculptor, working from the same crappy sketches.

Which brings us full circle back to the main point – it’s not “digital sculpting” that is to blame for poorly sculpted models; it poor design and/or poor execution. For me, well executed digitally sculpted models are far superior in every way to even the best “traditionally” sculpted minis – simply because they can be more precise and include more detail: the “character” of a model is down to the sculptor, not the tools they use.