It has been a nearly 3 year process of learning to model, mostly teaching myself/using tutorials etc... to finally get to a point where I feel I could present a finished model. I am so grateful to the instructor, Jay Machado for his patience and generosity in sharing his knowledge and expertise to give me some of the tools needed to complete a model of this scale/detail.
This was modeled over the course of 10 weeks, only on my weekends and some nights, it was genuinely one of the most difficult things I've ever tried to make. I have a number of unfinished hard-surface/vehicle models sitting around in folders and I can't wait to complete more of them!