I enjoy highly detailed and skillfully crafted historical accurate models. I also like a Christmas Train under my tree every year. So I guess I'd say I'm from one end of the spectrum to the other. LOL. On my "real" layout, we are depicting Glacier National Park; specifically the Marias Pass run. There is no way, rivet by rivet, anyone could do a realistic model of this area; less taking a shovel of dirt and placing it on a surface and saying: this is my "model" of "earth" of Marias Pass. Please lock me up in the looney bin.
I try to give a general "sense of place" and "feel" to the Glacier Line. There is no mistaking where or what it is supposed to be, but it is NOT remotely close to a rivet by rivet accounting.