I am TOTALLY NOT bashing you for not using pepakura, because for cardboard and your age, I think your work is pretty freaking good, but I just want to know the source of your disaffinity towards pepakura. I mean, given the vast availability of free/cheap resources to construct a prop of highest detail/quality, why not utilize those resources? I can understand if you think that the method is too mainstream (for the prop-building population anyway), and I'm definitely not encouraging a switch. I think you should just keep on doing what you like to do.