Just got back from my first day
of Nats attendance. It's a beautiful venue with some good, informative
"How to" symposiums. The hotel is beautiful, well appointed.
Each of the rooms, including the symposium, vendor and model room are
equipped with a cold water station and glasses. A nice touch for the heat
out here lately. Although all the rooms are air conditioned and quite
comfortable. The vendor room is packed with models and model deals. I
picked up the new Eduard Bf-110. It was 1 for $50 or 2 for $75. My brother
went with me, so we picked up two. $37.50 is a great price for what looks
to be a beautiful kit. I personally also pre-ordered Jerry Crandell's new
book on the 190D. If you like that plane- it's a gorgeous must have
book. A great companion for the Green Hearts book. And Bill
Koster got spread a bit of my wealth by having the conversion kit for the
RF-101 and the P-47H. It's set up for it looks like the Tam or Hase
47 as the vacuformed airframe has recessed panel lines. I noticed there's
no "instruction" sheet in the bag so I'll have to ask Bill about
that.
The model room is filling fast with beautiful displays of our fellow
modelers craft. It's a big room and imagine it will hold a couple of
thousand entries. All I can say is gawd bless the judges if they can
separate winners from the rest. There are some beautiful things,
especially in the armor group. I don't build armor, but there sure
are those that can. I will be traveling back to Anaheim the next two
days so suspect there will be lots more to enjoy.
Anyway, a few pics-
mclents
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