It looks really good! I think I'd enjoy building something like this of my own design more than building a real scale kit. With a scale kit, I think I would obsess over getting the details correct and might end up disappointed in the end. But if you do your own design you can be more free to improvise. Greet work!
I was like you once... not really into "scale" rockets because "they're harder", "more parts", "more expensive", I'd "obsess about making it look right", stuff like that.
Then I tried a Dr. Zooch kit when I became a BAR... GREAT fun, it looks terrific, it stretched and increased my skills (giving me new skills I can use on other builds), his kits are VERY affordable compared to most regular "3FNC" kits produced by the manufacturers, which are all pretty much alike mix-n-matches of various standard tubes/cones/occasionally transitions, which has been DONE TO DEATH, and they're great fliers...
If you enjoy a TLP kit, you'll love a Dr. Zooch... Plus, you can either build 'em stock per the instructions, which will get you a nice looking bird that flies great, OR if you really want to doll it up, you can add more detail parts and stuff as your heart and skills allow, really making a museum-quality build if that's what you want to do. You'd be surprised-- I know *I* was, when I built one and thought "wow that looks terrific", and ya know, even IF some of the details are a little off, 99.9% of people won't know the difference... you have to be a REAL scale-nut rivet-counter to find fault; most people will just say "oh wow look, a Saturn V (or Saturn IB, or shuttle, or Atlas, or Titan III, or Juno, or Redstone, or *whatever*)", not "your APU's are slightly the wrong shape and 20% overscale for that size rocket" or whatever...
After I built my first one, I was hooked... now I'm not really very interested in building much of anything else BUT scalers and semi-scale rockets... Even the TLP's are not 100% accurate scale-wise--most rockets aren't for various reasons... commonly oversize fins and stuff to make them stable as a model rocket...
Later! OL JR