When I saw the word "sloppy" I pulled mine out of the case and gave it the once over again. I agree that the steaky brown was to simulate a wood appearance & I am fine with that. However, I did find that the stripes on the sail on the sailboat, & the stripes on the tank in the middle of the boat to be of an unusually sloppy nature for HL. Almost all of the rest of the detail is about what I have come to expect from HL. I guess they need to get rid of their "stripper".