Bad locations for contests?

monsterarmor,
While I can't help you with additional shows in your area, I just wanted to let you know (in case you didn't know already), the IPMS Nationals are going to be held in Atlanta in 2005. I was there during the Nats in 1993 and had a great time. I'm already looking forward to '05!


And that's my 500th post.

Gip Winecoff

Oh yeah, Rhode Island is the worst for that sort of thing. Nothing like this goes on here that I can tell. And this is an area that has an aviation museum, a russian submarine museum, they're trying to turn the SARATOGA into a museum, numerous defense contractors, the naval war college, et al. But no modeling sort of thing. Just an overabundance of donut shops......mmmmm, donuts! (Homer Simpson would love it here)

my ancestral? village....they got electricity in 1970......so you can imagine.

Hey ,I live in Pa., and other then the Harrisburg show once a year, we don't have much either.......

breezely, where is that russian sub museum???? do you have a web link???? i would love to go see it... what kind of subs do the have??? is it worth the drive from Pa.??? i'm in the Northeastern part of Pa........ About 2 hours from NYC...

Hey LittleMoe where in PA are you? I lived in Lancaster(Centerville exit to be exact) for a very very brief period of time....I went to a fe nice shows in Philly,Hanover(had 1 once), cant remember where the other was....I miss PA, loved it up there...its on my top ten list if I can convince my wife to leave Florida.
Chris

Argh I hate when I read something and realize I missed something than post a ??? to find the answer right in front of my face!

To littlemoe: www.saratogamuseum.org The Russian sub is a JULIET class guided missile sub (non-nuc)and its part of this major project in conjunction with the SARATOGA. Too long to go into on this post. The organizers have done a beautiful job with her. It would be about a 4 hour drive for you. This is also part of the Quonset Point air museum which you could visit in the same day. And for good measure you could take a detour off I-95 and visit the Nautilus museum in Groton, CT. That alone is worth the drive from PA (Its also FREE). The JULIET and air museum charge a small fee. Explore the link, there are lots of JULIET pictures. It's been very popular. Its' up to you if it's worth it. Oh, sorry the sub is in Providence, RI and is very easy to get to. Did I mention we have a major air show @ Quonset Point every summer, too.

thanks breezely.... have you ever been to the USS Intrepid??? That place is great... loved it sooo much i became a member....... they have alot of neat stuff on display, plus alot of cool events year round... they have a NYC firefighter weekend that rocks.....

Hey History, i live in Pittston Pa, it's between Scranton and Wilkes-barre..... I don't live to far from the airport....

No, afraid I haven't. Not much time or money to do any traveling. But I have seen pictures and it looks awesome. Actually about 20 minutes outside Providence in Fall River, MA we also have Battleship Cove consisting of the battleship Massachusetts, submarine Lionfish, destroyer Joseph P Kennedy, some PT boats, etc., another great vacation spot, but once again no modelling in this area that I know about.

They're all badeth for us medevil types over on ye olde Europpe