what sites have a good selection of milliput and clear imitation water (well how much of a selection can you have but hopefully you get my meaning ) Prefferably places close to NY... better yet, anyone know where I can get this from a storefront? does pearl paint carry them?

I use to get A&B epoxy from Pearl Paints in Paramus, (Basicly the Yank Milliput) and they do carry clear casting resin, and various other mold making and casting resins, at the Paramus store. I'm sure the Canal Street store has a much better selection. (been years since I've gone to Canal Street store, ....
Don't even know if it's still there.
Now I get my milliput from the hobby shop up the road from me.

I'll be going there later today, PM me and tell me what exactly you are looking for, and I'll check, and ckeck the prices too.

If your luck is anything like mine Dave, then them smaller towns forget every year. I thought I was going to an old hobby shop, I haven't been to in years, and come to find out nobody in town even remembers it.
I went to the store where it once was, which is a bicycle shop now, and that guy said it never was there, cause he has been here 15 years and, he has always been a bicycle shop.

Well, I said 20 years ago this was one of the biggest hobby stores around, bigger then any other in all the other towns. Where it went who knows.

All they got now is just a little one that opens a couple days a week, if they feel like it. So that was a 30 mile drive for nothing.

I don't know how hobby stores are out that way, but they come and go over night around here, like that one, it was the biggest, and it disappeared.

I thought it was well established, from all the years before, but they could have moved to a major city.

Been shopping at F&M for years Kerry, in fact when I lived in the old place I use to ride my bike/side car out the 40 miles to it. Then I got a job out this way, and would hit it going to work. Now I live about 5 miles away.... but no more bike/sidecar.
He has a good selection of kits, but is mainly a model railroad shop, so lots of do-hicky detailing thing-a-ma-bobs....for creative gizmoloigy LOL
Also carries a complete line of Gunze, Tamyia, Model Masters, Polly S and Floquil paints, and other products by them... putty, expoxy, fillers, glues etc.He use to carry Humbrol's also, but alast.... no more.
All in all a decent hobby shop for supplies.