Well, I finally made it home. I didn’t get to post a day three post due to sheer exhaustion. So I’ll combine my day three repport with my convention wrap up. (I will have a separate set of post strictly devoted to some of the 72nd scale aircraft at the show.)
Day three started with the IPMS/USA business meeting. I was surprised at how few people attended and how calm it was. There were no rotten vegitables thrown and no riot occurred. IPMS/USA has plenty of money in the bank. The membership stands at about 4400 members. Here is a photo of the meeting. Note how few people are there.

IPMS business meeting
While I intend to do one or more posts just on the 72nd scale a/c I have to post this photo of a beautiful He-162 by Steve Hustad (sp?).

He-162
This is the best shot I got of the Best a/c winner. It was under a glass case and thus was hard to shoot a photo of.

Lancaster
There were more scratchbuilt a/c than I have ever seen at a National. Here is a beautiful T4M. The build was on ARC.

T4M
This is 72nd scale. It was beautiful. It was hard to believe.

Truck
Finally there was this beautiful 1/350th Harry S. Truman with detailed hangar deck.

Carrier
Wrap up: It was a fine convention. No major screw ups. It wasn’t in my top five, but even an average convention is great. The good points: The fastest, most pain free registration I have ever experienced. Lots of really nice models. A good hotel with lots of nice restaurants, including an inexpensive food court nearby. A great IPMS/Canada get-together. The bad points: The model room was a cave. Dark. Very dark. It wasn’t the host’s fault, the convention center changed the lighting after the room was booked. I don’t know how they judged in that lighting. The vendors were average at best. They were broken up into 8 rooms which made finding what you were looking for even more confusing. The seminars were very poor. There were very few of them and those were repeated on several days. I like the seminars and this was a big disappointment.
None of this is to say that I didn’t enjoy it, or that it wasn’t a good show. It was. I’d do it again in a heart beat.
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