The AMPS Great White North Show is coming up soon! The show is taking place at the Ontario Regiment RCAC Tank Museum at Oshawa airport on May 30-31, 2014. It’s looking like it’s going to be a great show, but we need your help to make it happen. As any show organizer can tell you, the ultimate success of a show depends on the people who attend the show. Thorough planning, a great selection of vendors, a big raffle table, and all the other things that can make a great model show are for naught if people don’t come to the show, bring models to enter, and volunteer to help out with judging at the show. With an AMPS show, the need for people to pitch in and help with judging is even greater because the judging system, where each model gets written feedback from a team of judges, is very labour-intensive. Thus, we’re asking those of you within feasible travelling distance of the greater Toronto, Ontario, to come out to the show, bring along models to enter, and help out with judging.

We’re doing all we can to make things convenient for attendees. Full details of the show, including preregistration, is available on the show's site: http://www.ampsgreatwhitenorth.com/. Preregistration makes life easier for you (no lineups and paperwork to fill out at the show or money to hand over on the spot) and for us (less work at the registration table and a better idea of how many models are coming). You can also find out information about the Ontario Regiment RCAC Museum’s open house, which includes military vehicle displays and demonstrations, the Ontario Military Vehicle Association’s flea market, and more. if you come out on Friday afternoon, then you’ll also 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, after the first judging shift is done. So you can have a chance to kick back and relax with fellow armour modellers and some nice Canadian beers!

As mentioned above, we need lots of people to pitch in with judging. For your convenience, we've added a form on our site where you can sign up for judging sessions:
http://www.ampsgreatwhitenorth.com/registration/JudgingSignup.aspx
To show our appreciation for our judges, anybody who does two judging shifts gets an AMPS – Great White North t-shirt. As well, anybody who judges at the show will be entered in a raffle for an Iwata Revolution CR gravity-feed dual-action airbrush.

I hope to see many of you in Oshawa! If you like models and tanks, then we can promise a good time if you come out.



Cheers,
Scott Taylor
AMPS Great White North Planning Committee