FSM at the Nationals

dupes wrote:

Excellent! I'm going to be there on Friday and Saturday, I'll be sure to stop by!

I look forward to meeting you. Are you bringing a model?

Sadly, no. Have to fly in from Maine - I looked into ways that I could pack something (in a carry-on, maybe?) but didn't come up with anything that would give me a good chance of bringing a build with me that would be intact.

Don't think I have anything nationals-quality quite yet anyway. Hopefully I can drive to my next Nationals when it comes back to the east coast!

I plan on being there all week and I am looking forward to meeting all of you guy's.

Steve

dupes wrote:

Sadly, no. Have to fly in from Maine - I looked into ways that I could pack something (in a carry-on, maybe?) but didn't come up with anything that would give me a good chance of bringing a build with me that would be intact. Don't think I have anything nationals-quality quite yet anyway. Hopefully I can drive to my next Nationals when it comes back to the east coast!

I carried a model in a Rubbermaid container on the plane to Anaheim last year. It fit under the seat in front of me. The best part was on the shuttle to the hotel I sat next to a woman. She took one look at the box I was nursing on my lap and started backing away asking me what kind of animal I had in the box.

Interesting. Did you just put a lot of foam or something around the model? They didn't give you any trouble about keeping it upright going through the security screening or anything?

Perhaps I need to do some further research at home.

dupes wrote:

Interesting. Did you just put a lot of foam or something around the model? They didn't give you any trouble about keeping it upright going through the security screening or anything?

It was a squat armor model. I had it on a bed of foam with toothpicks to hold it in position and the box sat flat on the belt through security. They didn't even ask me to open it up.

I won't say I wasn't nervous, but it made the trip from Milwaukee to Anaheim and back without a problem. Didn't win anything, but it was worth it for the experience.

Cheers, 

It was greta to meet you also and the figures were terrific. Thanks for letting us shoot them.

Cheers, 

Very nice to talk to you guys! Pretty amazing event...going to be hard to top.

Can't wait to be able to drive to one of these someday and bring some builds!

Can't wait to be able to drive to one of these someday and bring some builds!

That was the nice thing about this Nationals location; I live 40 miles to the north and was able to drive and tote the goodies without any prolems.