Ralph Warner

IF YOU attended the Chicago Model Hobby Show last October 29 to November 1, you saw the largest concentration of model hobbies displayed in the United States-and possibly in the world! The show featured displays by manufacturers of radio control products, model trains, static plastic models, kites, rockets, games, and appropriate accessories. This is the product mix found in most hobby shops in the U.S. If you have ever attended the Toledo RC Expo, you know that it is the largest pure RC show held in this country. The other shows held around the country are important to the industry, but are not as large as either Chicago or Toledo in the number of exhibitors or the size of the display hall. You may have heard of the toy fair held in Nuremburg, Germany, each February. This fair, which includes model displays, is the largest combined show in the world, but the model hobbies area does not match that at the Chicago show.