Upcoming show in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina!!!!! NEW UPDATES...

JOSH 51st · #1 (**permalink**) 02-05-2008, 10:37

NEW UPDATES TO THE SHOW. SEE NEW POST LOWER DOWN...

We are happy to announce a brand new 1/6 convention in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on June 14th and 15th. This show will also work as a fundraiser for the future," DIORAMA...Museum of the American soldier", the worlds first military museum featuring giant 1/6th scale dioramas of our countries most important battles. Look for lots more info on DIORAMA coming soon!!!!! Anyway, back to the show, the promoters for this show are Bobby Dalto, of War Structures, Wes Caudle of Wes' Customs, Joe Garzarelli of War and Pieces 1944, and Cory Lord of Toychest. We'll have many of the hobbies best dealers and customizers, conventioneer packages loaded with cool stuff, special guest, lots of reenactors from many conflicts, a huge display for ''DIORAMA....Museam of the American soldier", and much more to be announced soon!!!!

Some of the dealers already committed to the show are; Toychest, Armor Hobbies, Newline Miniatures, Warstructures, War and Pieces 1944, Wes' Custom Creations, the Toy Surgeon, Toyrrific, and Creative Diversions with many more to be announced soon!!!!!

The show will be held at the Holiday inn west on the waterway...the hotel features, indoor/outdoor pool and jetski rentals. The worlds first music themed amusement park, THE HARD ROCK PARK and MIDEVILTIMES are both with in walking distance from the hotel.

Lots more info is on the way. A web site will be up in a week or two.....In the meantime, if anyone has any questions you can email me at photographics64@yahoo.com or call bobby @ 843-236-0982......

Myrtle Beach is a great place to vacation, so bring the family and make a long weekend out of it......

cya at the beach.........bobby

TheNelsonParadigm · #2 (**permalink**) 02-05-2008, 10:39

Woo Hoo, that's even easier for me to get to than Atlanta!

JOSH 51st · #3 (**permalink**) 02-05-2008, 10:45

Hey everyone, I was asked by Bobby to post this here. Moderators, can we please tack this at the top for a while?

We are happy to announce a brand new 1/6 convention in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on June 14th and 15th. This show will also work as a fundraiser for the future," DIORAMA...Museum of the American soldier", the worlds first military museum featuring giant 1/6th scale dioramas of our countries most important battles. Look for lots more info on DIORAMA coming soon!!!!! Anyway, back to the show, the promoters for this show are Bobby Dalto, of War Structures, Wes Caudle of Wes' Customs, Joe Garzarelli of War and Pieces 1944, and Cory Lord of Toychest. We'll have many of the hobbies best dealers and customizers, conventioneer packages loaded with cool stuff, special guest, lots of reenactors from many conflicts, a huge display for ''DIORAMA....Museam of the American soldier", and much more to be announced soon!!!!

Some of the dealers already committed to the show are; Toychest, Armor Hobbies, Newline Miniatures, Warstructures, War and Pieces 1944, Wes' Custom Creations, the Toy Surgeon, Toyrrific, and Creative Diversions with many more to be announced soon!!!!!

The show will be held at the Holiday inn west on the waterway...the hotel features, indoor/outdoor pool and jetski rentals. The worlds first music themed amusement park, THE HARD ROCK PARK and MIDEVILTIMES are both with in walking distance from the hotel.

Lots more info is on the way. A web site will be up in a week or two.....In the meantime, if anyone has any questions you can email me at photographics64@yahoo.com or call bobby @ 843-236-0982......

Myrtle Beach is a great place to vacation, so bring the family and make a long weekend out of it......

cya at the beach.........bobby

JOSH 51st · #4 (**permalink**) 02-05-2008, 10:47

Oopps, sorry moderators. Just posted in the shows section. Please feel free to remove this post if necessary. Thanks.

-JOSH

AirCommando · #5 (**permalink**) 02-05-2008, 10:51

Mmmmm might be worthy a trip from Florida to catch this one!

JOSH 51st · #6 (**permalink**) 02-23-2008, 09:58

HERE'S THE LATEST NEWS...

the web site for the myrtle beach, sc show is up!!!! www.mbonesixth.com...

add it to your favorites. we'll be adding lots more stuff coming up soon.

we have a great conventioneer package with lots of great stuff!!! the order form for the package will be up in a day or two. all the proceeds made on this package will go the the DIORAMA...MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN SOLDIER fund, so we hope everyone will buy one of these awesome packages!!!!

we are also doing a program book that will be available at the show free for all attendees. this book will have all kinds of 1/6 scale news, as well as helpful hints/photos to go with the seminars, an article telling more about the museum, and lots more!!!

****a note to all dealers who can't attend the show, we are selling ad space in the program book so you can still get your name out there!!! you can contact me at photographics64@yahoo.com for more info...

last, but not least for now, remember the brand new HARD ROCK PARK, the worlds first music themed amusement park will be opened and a mere 200 yards from the convention hotel..... a great way to make a family vacation out of your convention trip!!! everyone has been wanting an east coast show, so please support it!!!! see ya there!!!

AirCommando · #7 (**permalink**) 02-24-2008, 06:22

Josh, is this show open to any era of warfare or is it more WWII and Civil War?

TurboProp · #8 (**permalink**) 02-27-2008, 11:10

I'm there!!!

JOSH 51st · #9 (**permalink**) 02-27-2008, 12:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by AirCommando

Josh, is this show open to any era of warfare or is it more WWII and Civil War?

AirCommando,

Definitely open to ALL eras. The Museum is planning to cover all aspects of US military history. But there may not be modern items (per say) in the reenactment/collection areas on display at the show, although we're hoping to have some Nam stuff. As we get closer, maybe that will change and we can get some more modern items...

We would love to have modern collectors out there too. They'll be vendors/things there for you as well. They'll be figure contests too and we need you guys to come through for us... I collect modern as well, but I'm mostly a WW2 guy, so I won't have much to add in the modern aspect.

Thanks for the interest. Hope to see you there.

-JOSH

mattlocke06 · #10 (**permalink**) 05-21-2008, 09:50

Im definantly going to be there with some modern. Im putting off moving just to go to this show. I live just a few miles from the Holiday Inn.

JOSH 51st · #11 (**permalink**) 05-21-2008, 18:06

Great... I'm looking forward to seeing some more modern stuff at the show. I think that we'll have all eras covered in the dealer areas, but hope to see some cool modern stuff on display.

It's going to be a lot of fun. I'll look for you guys there...

-JOSH

nomelrw · #12 (**permalink**) 05-28-2008, 08:38

Josh,
Keep us posted here at the OSW!

JOSH 51st · #13 (**permalink**) 05-28-2008, 17:02

nomelrw and all others,

I'll do my best. The show is June 14th and 15th at the Holiday Inn West... On the Waterway, Myrtle Beach, SC.

We've got a few weeks left till the show. It may not be the biggest show, but it's going to be fun. Keep in mind, it's all to raise funds for the 'Diorama' Museum. Bobby's really trying to go all out. There's a conventioneers package available too, which will feature custom items as well as a free gift from New Line miniatures, t-shirt, personalized dog tags to name a few, all packaged in a real ammo can.

We're going to have 1:1 displays as well as 1:6th huge dioramas. From Civil war to Nam will be in Diorama form as part of the Museum display, as well as figures from all eras. Other people are bringing figures/dioramas from all eras to display as well. Vendors are looking pretty good, again, all eras will/can be found within the vendor area. Check out the site for more details.

There's going to be a prize wheel, get a spin for each donation made to the museum. I think conventioneers get 1 spin with the package. It's not going to be a lot of $ per spin. But you can win accessory sets, to custom half tracks to boxed figures. No junk on the wheel either, all usable items.

There's also seminars about photographing your figures to seminars about weathering hosted by Graham of New Line Miniatures. I think Graham has some 'special' things in mind for the 1st group of people who sign up for the seminar.

We have reenactors attending, to show off their original militaria. Were even working on getting a civil war cannon firing demonstration, if we can get the logistics figured out...

We're also really trying to get local people who don't know about the hobby to attend to see what the hobby and the Museum is all about. We'll have a 'new to the hobby' area for kids to get 'cheap' items to get them involved too, to keep this great hobby going.

So if you're able to, definitely stop by and show Bobby some support. Again, all info is at the website:

www.mbonesixth.com

Hope to see everyone there. If you can't make it we'll have plenty of pics.

-JOSH

mattlocke06 · #14 (**permalink**) 05-29-2008, 06:59

I cant wait to hit the vendors .

nomelrw · #15 (**permalink**) 06-16-2008, 12:22

These guys put in a tremendous amount of work to put this show on. Incredible dioramas and some great vendors. Cory and Mike helped relieve my wallet of some 1/6th funds I had been saving up. Grahm from Newline gave us a demonstration on how to put on boots and uniforms. Then he gave us all the gear. Thanks again.
Rich

Punisher2-2 · #16 (**permalink**) 03-11-2009, 15:52

Any chance of an '09 show?! Just moved to NC and am about 2 hours from myrtle beach.

JOSH 51st · #17 (**permalink**) 03-12-2009, 13:14

Hey Punisher2-2. Welcome to NC...

I'm not sure if Bobby's gonna do a show this year. We've been trying to talk him into it. I think the turn out last year really was upsetting for him. And unfortunately with this economy, not sure if he wants to take the hit financially again.

But you never know. If he decides to do it again, we'll definitely post it here. Thanks for the interest.

-JOSH

mx22 · #18 (**permalink**) 03-12-2009, 13:32

Building up show customer base is certainly a long process, first show is a bad indicator of how good or bad show really is - did retailers promote the show through their customers? Unfortunately, we are simply too far from NC - not that it's not possible, but with all the costs involved (hotel for at least one day, at least two day van rent, gas, food, cost of tables and everything else) it would only make sense to come only to a large show... Maybe it would make more sense to make a small show - something what we have in CT, conference room in hotel with tables for dealers (maybe a few nicely presentation tables from larger producers/distributors such as Merit/Caltek/Sideshow if they want to cheap in and cover small portion of the show?)

I do agree though, we badly need a good large WOH-type show somewhere here on the East Coast. Now who's willing to step up to the task and organize it all?

Alexei

nomelrw · #19 (**permalink**) 03-13-2009, 08:36

The turn-out was fairly low which was sad because the show was really nice. I don't blame them for not doing it again. There just does not seem to be that many fans on the East coast. Some type of unified effort does seem like a good idea.

fisty · #20 (**permalink**) 06-04-2009, 15:53

i for one would love to see somthing like this in NC. i can't find anything at all around here.

major.rod · #21 (**permalink**) 06-04-2009, 21:48

Would be great to have more shows in the area. I asked about some interest in putting one on in the Ft. Benning area. I would have scheduled it with some firepower and graduation demonstrations on Benning. Would have been cool.

Well if you are in the Columbus Georgia area drop in. I have 3 - 4 dioramas set up all the time and about 60+ figures on display for sael (mostly modern, half boxed half custom done by me). I'm also trying to bring on a spare parts section.

voodoo · #22 (**permalink**) 06-05-2009, 06:18

Hey Josh, is the link you posted for the website correct? When I click on it, there's no site there... I'm definitely interested in attending...

Ssgtbear · #23 (**permalink**) 06-05-2009, 16:20

That link was for last years show. I missed it because we were out of town. Only a two and a half hour drive for me. I've seen Bobby twice since then. I know the economy has taken a toll on all of us. There are several collectors here in SC from Charleston to Anderson and in between. Hopefully we can get something in the works again. Maybe a get together. The Southeastern Toy Soldier show is coming up August the 8th, 2009. Mostly minatures, 1/32, 1/18 and some 1/6th. I know of two loose parts sellers that have signed up for the show already. I'll post more on it later in a seperate thread. Bobby we are thinking about you and the diorama museum.

Boyd

fisty · #24 (**permalink**) 06-05-2009, 22:30

only good place here in the area i know to get anything is flea markets and the Hillsville Flea Market on labor day weekend. last year i got 30+ 1/6 figures there cheap. And there are lots of dealers there from allover the US.