Hard to believe, but it is election time again! 2023 is the year we hold our next IPMS/USA Executive Board elections. IPMS/USA National Officers serve two year terms. IPMS/USA welcomes all members meeting the requirements of our Constitution and By-Laws to submit a nomination petition. Nomination petitions are now being accepted for all elected officer positions (President, 1st Vice President, 2nd Vice President, Secretary, Historian/Publications Director, Recruitment/Retention Secretary, and Director of Local Chapters). Those members wishing to run for office must submit the Petition for Nomination to National Office of IPMS/USA to Marie Van Schoonhoven, our Office Manager, at Manager@ipmsusa.org or by US...
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Posted on: November 7, 2022
One of the first actions of business by the current Executive Board was to agree to provide complete transparency to the membership in our governance of the business of the Society. As a part of that effort, the Board commissioned a committee composed of Executive Board members to perform an extensive review of the current (2017) text of the IPMS/USA Constitution and By-Laws. The committee was tasked with proposing revisions to “clean-up and clarify” the existing text language, and to offer amendment proposals that more accurately reflect the Board’s understandings of a consensus of the membership that elected them.
Upon review of the Executive Board of the results put forth by the committee, we unanimously concur and endorse them in their entirety. We...
read more... Posted on: October 31, 2022
The 2023 IPMS/USA National Convention website is online.
Posted on: October 26, 2022
I am pleased to announce that the new Director of Local Chapters is John Figueroa. John is originally from southern California. He was in the Navy for 20 years and retired as a Chief Petty Officer. His specialty was computer technology. While living in the DC area, he’s a past president of IPMS Northern Virginia. He now lives in Ft. Wayne, IN and is VP of the Roscoe Turner chapter as well as Regional Coordinator for RC 4. He brings a lot of leadership skills to IPMS/USA which will serve all well as the DLC.
David Lockhart
IPMS/USA
President
Posted on: October 24, 2022
- DL called the meeting to order at 7:08PM, CDT.
- DL nominated John Figueroa, current RC of Region 4 for approval as the new DLC to replace Jeff Neal, who resigned at the National Convention in Omaha. Board approval was unanimous.
- DL indicated that Mike Mackowski, RC of Region 10 is stepping down. He will be replaced by Tony Humphries.
- Moving forward, all RCs will need to be proficient in using the Wild Apricot membership system. DL will revise the job description and responsibilities...
Posted on: October 12, 2022
IPMS/USA members, we are happy to let you know that we have been able to establish our own custom domain name for the membership, online store and convention registration part of our web site. Where you saw "ipmsu28.wildapricot.org" in the past you will now see "myipmsusa.org". All of the features of the site remain the same and are still supported by Wild Apricot. The are no changes at all to the site pages using the "ipmsusa.org" domain name.
If you have bookmarked any ipmsu28.wildapricot.org web pages, please change them to the new URL you will see on those pages. We will be updating any links that might be impacted as well. We will be making this change around 8 PM Eastern this evening. Please let us...
read more... Posted on: October 5, 2022
Here is the NCC 2022 National Convention Final Report.
Posted on: October 4, 2022
Here is the final list of winners for the 2022 IPMS/USA National Convention contest.
If you have any feedback about corrections or questions, please direct them to NCC@ipmsusa.org so the NCC can address them directly.
Also, here is the gallery for the Awards Presentation Slide Show by Vladimir Yakubov.
read more... Posted on: September 1, 2022
These minutes reflect the discussions held during a special meeting requested by Dave Lockhart, President, IPMS/USA on Sunday, August 21, 2022 to debrief and discuss results of the feedback survey sent to member attendees of the National Convention and to discuss the current status of the proposed revisions to the IPMS/USA Constitution and By-Laws.
Minutes
- DL called the meeting to order at 7:23PM, CDT
- DL asked 2nd VP John Bonanni to provide an executive summary of the results of the...
Posted on: August 26, 2022
I built 50% of this kit over 15 years ago. Eventually, the box was too large to ignore. This is what I always wanted to do to my real E Type.
This kits ’reputation’ didn’t disappoint: I see it as a vintage toy kit that always wanted to be a ‘presentable’ scale model. Despite the many challenges, there are a few master modelers who do museum grade builds of this kit. They represent my inspiration for this attempt.
Examples of the challenges I encountered:
- The large front windscreen has a rectangular cut out at top center? Perhaps to fit the windscreen with the rear view mirror already fitted? The right angles of this cut out are at the greatest tension point of this part…crazing and usually causes cracking of the windscreen. I had just finished the model...