My first model show...

and I was too stupid to bring my camera!!

Actually- I remembered it about an hour and a half into the trip north. Dragged my wife and 1-year old daughter to the CAN/AM CON 5 in Plattsburgh today. It was my first time and I wanted to see what it was like so I didn't enter anything this time. It was pretty cool- and there were some great displays there.

They had some pretty cool armor displays, and someone had entered a scratchbuilt 1/32 scale railgun....very impressive. I hope the person wasn't too mad when they released those 2 versions recently. Being an aircraft freak, I loved all the great 1/48 scale stuff they had there-- including a B-29 and a Lancaster. Man is the B-29 big.....

Someone had also entered 5 Dewoitine 520's that all had different schemes from different French squadrons. The best for me though was a diorama called "Old Friends"- it showed an elderly vet visiting a beat-up decrepit B-25 that looks as though it's sitting in the desert somewhere- with a scratchbuilt firewall where one engine was missing, and a Verlinden engine exposed on the other side. The ailerons, elevators, and rudder were damaged....it was all pretty cool.

The best part of the day however was meeting up with someone from the forums-- Placid Planes. We met he and his wife while browsing the displays and spent some time talking. It was pretty cool....

Inside the showroom, the vendor displays were so-so...but there was not much that appealed to me. However, my wife headed for the bathrooms and found a few more tables outside-- I went through and found myself an Eduard1/48 P-39Q that I plan on making into of all things a Tuskegee plane

Loads of fun though- and all for $4!!....well-- not including the $21 for the Airacobra LOL

Next year, I'm entering something!!