Incredible detail! I love this piece quite a bit. I didn't really realize there is a re-steem contest for Minnowsupport, but I'm not shocked, so I'm going to take a look.
As far as the upvoting the Minnowsupport comments goes, I didn't when I first started, but then I read the message and now I try to upvote it every time it comments on my work (as well I do for other bots that upvote me from the trails).
Thanks for putting this analysis together @paulag, very well done.