Thanks for the welcome BaBill212! Looking forward to it all!
As far as a good hobby shop here in southern IN, I'm not too far south (Bedford) and have a LHS in Bloomington that I used to frequent. It's owned by an older couple and doesn't have a lot in the way of armor kits, but they do have a decent size selection of paints etc. There is a LHS in Bedford, but I haven't been in there yet so I couldn't tell ya. Most of the time I head to Hobbytown USA in either Greenwood or Castleton. I'm looking to head to Elizabethtown in KY sometime in the near future and am looking forward to checking out the shop there.