WRONG. 
Find some schoolkid with an interest in modelling that is just starting out, get them to make it. They'll charge you like 20 dollars. While they're making it and showing you progress pics tell them it's great, you love it, wow. When they deliver point out a thousand little flaws, every place they fucked up, everything you want making better. They'll be floored, they'll move heaven and earth to fix it for you and eventually you'll have a good avatar for twenny bucks. 

And you're doing a good deed too, that kid just got some valuable experience and tempering.