July is upon us , dave ? Yes , it is , and you know what that means , don't you ?
Yeah , it does . It's Nats time .
Yes , a very special Nats episode . And it's hot , summertime too , it does , it's Nats time . Yes , a very special Nats episode , and it's hot summertime too . It is , it is , and it's been beautiful out . The days are starting to get shorter , though We've topped over the top .
Yes , we have . I guess I hadn't noticed because I was out west where the days were a lot longer still because of the elevation and latitude . But we talked about that a little bit in 118 .
You know we we never really take a full break in summer , but for the show plastic model mojo , that is right , we're gonna kind of be hitting the easy button a little bit in july well , we , I'm not sure .
It might be a little bit of the easy button for plastic model mojo , but it's not gonna be the easy button for modeling , because this is the time of year , man , this is it .
I don't know , I don't know about you , man , but just been so busy around here . We got like six trips , family trips and well , not just family , I'm counting the nets in there and some other things but uh , six kind of short vacations , many trips and holidays over from mid-June through August at our house . So we've got a lot going on .
Yes , yeah , absolutely . It's the height of summertime , July 4th coming up in a couple of days Again . Nothing all overshadowed by the fact that we have less than two weeks to the Nats .
Well , you know , since the last 12-Minute Model Sphere , we have been one place . We went to Wonderfest .
Mm-hmm .
And that was a blast .
It was fantastic .
We've talked about that . We had some great segments out of that and it was a good time , so hopefully that was going to be a repeat next year .
Oh , absolutely Bigger and better .
Bigger and better From our coverage ? I hope , yes . Yeah , We've got to get on that man .
Yep , we do .
And , as you've already alluded to , where we're going in July is the IPMS National Convention in Madison , wisconsin , and we are like bloody close man .
We are , we are and we're going to have a full vehicle driving up to Madison , which , by the way , is a very comfortable drive from Louisville .
Well , I think if we can leave at a decent time in the morning , we can be up there just ahead of a vendor room opening .
Yep , yep , and I'm pretty sure that we can get the car guests up early enough to get them moving .
Well , you can , they'll be at your house .
That's right , I'll get that alarm set . I'll open up the doors and let the dogs in Lick them awake .
Should just hide alarm clocks under the beds .
There you go .
Well , folks , we're recording this on July 1st , so that means at the conclusion of this evening , dave , we are 16 days away from the National Convention . I know , and we got a few activities ahead of time .
Yes , we do .
And it's going to be here before we know it bud .
I know , I know . In fact I was just before we were recording . I was sitting out back by the pool with the wife talking about when the guests arrive and when we leave for Madison and getting all that straightened out . So looking forward to it .
Have you heard Now . Who are these people again ?
Well heard . Now , who are these people again ? Well , first of course is the podfather , dave Goldfinch , digger . Dave Digger , dave is flying in from Canada . Actually , he went Australia to Canada and then Canada to the US .
He's flying into Louisville on the afternoon of Sunday the 14th and then we've got a couple of days to show him around and show him some Southern hospitality .
And then Tuesday night Dr Dave Gelbacher , one of the Septemberists , drives up from Birmingham and he'll be here Tuesday evening in time for the poolside cookout which you'll also hopefully be attending , should be there . And then Early Wednesday morning we are all loaded up in the family truckster and headed to Madison .
And again , the goal is to get there in plenty of time get there by the time that the vendor room opens , get our registration stuff , get settled in provision , the hotel dojo room and then activities from there .
Well , I was alluding to Ruthie saying who are these people again ?
Oh , okay . Well , she did say that kind of , and I've explained it several times , but of course it's not quite as important to her .
Well , good , but she knows well , dave , july is a two-episode month and it's going to be mostly Nats coverage , I think .
Yep , pre-nats and Nats .
Yep . So episode 119 , folks is going to be a Mike and Dave spectacular .
We've got no feature guests scheduled , but we're going to have a little IPMS Nationals preview and hopefully we can work in a few short guest segments from some folks who are going to be either traveling with us or taking care of some things at the national convention , either seminars or well , stuff like that really .
Yep .
And we'll get a few words from them . Episode 120 is going to be our IPMS Nationals coverage episode and with that episode we'll have the aggregate of all the segments we managed to get recorded on location , and that's always a lot of fun .
Yes , it is Looking forward to that , and you know I'll be honest with you Our Nats coverage has gotten better every year . I think you and I learn new stuff every year about when to do interviews , how to do where to grab guests , etc . And we're located in the main vendor room this year , so it should be a great location for us to do those interviews .
So I'm putting down a personal marker we're going to make this year's Nats coverage and interviews the best ever , I hope so .
I've been looking at the vendor list and then we got some friends showing up too that want to stop by , so yeah , should be a lot of fun , man should be a ton of fun .
dave the dojo members the numbers continue to increase steadily . A I thank all the new members . Welcome you all . B I apologize for not posting as much for about the last 10 days Life kind of has intervened to require me to take care of some family stuff , so I haven't been on the dojo as much as I want .
But now that that's cleared behind me I'm going to make a concerted effort to get back and get on there and get posting . Thanks everybody who has been posting . Again , the quality of the postings continues to increase . I love that . We're getting a great mix of in-progress shots , finished builds , people posting questions .
Some of the best posts , in my opinion , are the ones soliciting advice or soliciting information , because we've got a really great community and everybody is willing to pitch in and share and they do so in a really good , with a really good attitude . So thank you for everybody who's in the dojo . Thank you for everybody who's posting .
If you're in the dojo and you haven't posted yet , please do . I mean , it doesn't matter where you are in your modeling journey . We want to see what you're doing , we're interested in it and we appreciate the participation .
Well , I got to step up my game too . I've been away a little bit as well , but I finally got something posted yesterday .
Yeah , and I've got to get something posted tonight .
All my masking tape .
You may actually run through a roll of Tamiya masking tape eventually .
I might More on that in the upcoming episodes . Exactly on that in the upcoming episodes .
Exactly .
Well , folks , I hope you stick around this summer and join us for episode 119 and 120 . And if you're attending the IPMS National Convention , please stop by the table and have a chat with us . We'd love to meet you and have a few words and meet the listening audience out there .
Absolutely , Mike and I . The joy of us going to shows and putting up a Plastic Model Mojo table is the number of people who stop by , many of whom we've interacted with through DMs or emails or just people out of the blue that we've never heard from , who stop by and tell us what they like about the podcast , give us suggestions .
We love putting faces to names , so don't hesitate to stop by and say hi .
Who knows , you might end up on the show .
That's right . It's always a possibility , man .
Well , Dave , until next time . So many kids .
So little time it's coming , man Bye .