No, you didn't come off that way at all. Especially with that signature line
I liked what I saw as well. It was strictly the site's text that had my eyes rolling.
I look forward to seeing this come to completetion. I love bashes and scratch builds, scale to tinplate. I have some personal running issues with other scales, but that's unrelated to what others do. I have lightly dabbled in HO and N and G. N is too small, G was too big, HO gives me "Tyco nightmares"... but has improved 300% since tyco days. I have two of each, though the G is just battery op.
Treating the boy to a train negates almost anything you do wrong for the rest of your life anyhow