Quote Originally Posted by Goldkilla View Post
Don't recreate something, make something new. Make something that you might not see so often.
I've long believed that recreating is just as good as making something new if you're a novice or intermediate modeler. When you're learning to model, you shouldn't also feel forced to learn to design things as well. Moreover, I think recreating things gives novices a lot of inspiration for their own works when otherwise they wouldn't know where to start.