The AMPS – Great White North Show is less than six weeks away! The show is taking place at the Ontario Regiment RCAC Tank Museum at Oshawa airport on May 30-31, 2014. Preregistration is now open for the show. You can preregister (under the "register" tab) and find out more details about the show at the show's site: http://www.ampsgreatwhitenorth.com/. If you're planning to come to the show and enter, then preregistration helps both you (it will be quicker to get your models entered) and the show organizers (it helps us anticipate how many models are going to be at the show, how many judges we're going to need, etc.).

Aside from 50-odd vending tables and a really, really nice raffle table for the model side of the show, the museum is holding its "Tank Day" that weekend, so there will be plenty of real tanks and other armoured vehicles out and about (including, but not limited to, a couple of M4A2E8 Shermans, an M3A1 Stuart, an M24 Chaffee, an M60A3, and an M551 Sheridan, along with a BMP-1, many M113 variants – like the TUA – and examples of all versions of the AVGP family), as well as the Ferret Club's drive-in show and swap meet, re-enactors camped on-site, and more.

If you come out on Friday, May 30, aside from being able to enter your models early and participate in judging, you will have the opportunity to get up close to and inside many of the vehicles on display. For a $5 donation to the museum, you can have interior and exterior access to the museum’s vehicles from noon until 5:00PM, so you can photograph to your heart’s content, free from the crowds. Also, we’re going to have the AMPS – Great White North mixer on Friday night; details will follow on the AMPS – Great White North site.

This is a great opportunity to experience an AMPS show north of the border. The combination of model vehicles and full-scale vehicles promises to be a great show for all attendees. We hope to see you there!

Cheers,

Scott Taylor
AMPS – Great White North Planning Committee