Once again the US Nationals provided modellers and traders with an opportunity to meet, trade and talk and provided the essential focus for the hobby that it has become every year. The hosts, the Fort Crook Chapter of IPMS/USA, put on a great show and it was good to come back to Omaha again, this time without flood waters lapping at the fringes of the airport, an image this traveller recalls from the previous Omaha show, when flying in over brown water was more redolent of South East Asia than Middle America.
Pictures paint a thousand words, and the standard of modelling this year was as high if not higher than ever. With the UK event at the forefront of people’s minds this month, here’s a hint of the way we do things in the States.