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I drive to GT's as much as its pain in the butt at times. My reasoning a friends story.

A buddy, a former manager of a local GW store attends the company wide conference in Las Vegas. He checks his bag. Upon which he gets it back AFTER the airlines folks clear opened it to check it, then stuffed everything back in, breaking and damaging an entire 2500 pt Vampire Counts army rendering it useful.

The only way i'd ever fly with my army is to bring it on as a carry on and check the rest of my luggage. Current overhead comparments in US Airways fits a pretty nice carry on standard luggage... which ironically fits enough army transport trays to safely keep models safe if packed correctly. That way as long as you always know which way need to be up, your ok. The most important part is protecting your minatures from the open side of army transport, this usually takes some TLC with paper towels and getting creative with extra plug foam.

A prior poster made a comment about carrying on your mini's and living without clothes for the weekend. I 100% agree with that mentality. Its a really easy justification.

Clothes for the week are less expensive then replacing my army, and less agrevated then rebuying or repainting my army.

My initial plan for going to Adepticon was to fly, life circumstances intervened and I cannot go. My plan was to pack my warmachine models in the Army transport platoon, I can fit my 50 pt list. Then put the books on the bottom, and dice would just be put into the bottom as well with template / tapemeasure, no dice try etc, and just bring a dice back. Then carry it on.

My total clothes for the weekend: 1 pair jeans, undergarmets, 1 hoody, 3 t-shirts, shower stuff in a book bag. That's it. Forget about shaving for the weekend, bring the basics buy whatever else you need because it will be cheaper then replacing your Battlefoam and your army.

Games will understand. Plus have the time, you'll probably still have better hygiene then 75% of the guys there as long as you showered, brushed your teeth, and managed to now spill a brew on your hoody during that late night outing the night before

I've never had a issue with US Airways. I've mentioned "they are model minatures, i'm happy to open this, and pull everything out for you." Never had a problem. Just the typical stares as the trays come up. As a above post mentioned.
A lot of people have seen the game or some kind of model minature game. I had one attend reach to snag and pull a model out I mentioned "aren't you guys responsible for breakage of items?" I offered to pull out every model for them. They just re-scanned it and away I went.