It's a spring thing
My local modeling club, the Phantom Phlashers , holds their annual show and contest the first Saturday of April every year. It's a nice opportunity to see the work of modelers around the region and have some extended social time with a bunch of guys with a lot of overlapping interests. This year's show included a record 467 models from 93 different modelers. One of the highlights of every show is the vendors. It's often an opportunity to pick up a few new products, especially tools and paints, and always allows a glimpse of plastic modelling history as folks try to empty out their closets of old (and often superseded) kits. Although the vendor turnout for those tools and supplies was thin, I did get to visit with one of the first kits I recall building, the Aurora P-61 Black Widow. I especially enjoyed Aurora brand kits in those pre-teen years because they went together easily. Their lack of detail didn't bother me, because I could go from a box of part