Thank you guys for the kind words. You're right that as long as she likes it, then it was a job well done - although the appearance was less than I was hoping to create.
My intention with this topic was to poke fun at my failed attempt, and challenge others to share their modeling efforts that failed to live up to expectations. Here is an example from the baking show:
Any one care to share your "failed" backdrop paintings, waterfall scenes, foam carvings, weathering attempt, repaints, structures, etc?
Thanks for playing along.