IPMS/FSM Forums Member and FSM Subscriber goes to China for Lunar New Year...

Fellow SMs (that's Scale Modelers...NOT Sado Masochists - although they seem very similar at times...)

I think we have all wondered, at one time or another, if Chinese scale model shops are filled with weird, plastic nerds like us. I intend to find out!

Today i drive south to one of my nephews' home in Massachusetts. I'll leave the wheels there and get dropped off at Logan International tomorrow. Then BOS to Shanghai - 12+ our layover - then on to Guangzhou. From there, go to Shenzhen for a few days then on to Enping. Not my first trip to China. But it will be the first trip where i intentionsally go looking for scale model shops. :-) My wife (NOT my ex-wife, the current wife :-)) is from China and she is already there. I will be joining her and her family for the Lunar New Year. Will have almost 3 weeks there and hope to buy a kit for my Japanese Group Build and who knows what else??? She knows about my plans and is already worried about how much time i will spend on modeling stuff...Bwah-Ha-Ha-Ha! I am bringing gifts for the family and her older brother is getting a Revell Jug 1:72 and the basics he needs to build it. Hopefully we'll get him hooked. The woman says he was quite into them as a boy.

Anyway, i thought it would be cool to keep a travelog for you guys and try to make it a fun and interesting thing to share with my FSM peeps...

So, tune in here for pics and posts all the way to the other side of the world and back.

Sib