International Plastic Modelers' Society / USAInternational Plastic Modelers' Society / USAIPMS/USAIPMS/USAMarch 16th, 2025
Eboard Working Meeting
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order on March 16th, 2025 at 7:00pm EST by Phil Peterson.
Nate Pollock, newly appointed Data Manager, was introduced and welcomed aboard prior to the start of the meeting. With no questions at this time he was excused.
Roundtable/Action Item Updates
MO – February financial report was discussed. The negative revenue for the month is...
read more...The San Diego Chapter was saddened when long-time IPMS member Joel Hendricks passed away unexpectedly on Jan 14, 2025 at the age of 64. As club secretary, Joel was predeceased by his dear wife Rosann. He is survived by his two sons, Joel and Matt and their families, including a granddaughter.
The club secretary for years, Joel was also an enthusiastic volunteer behind the scenes. Always involved, he managed the kit opportunity drawings at the annual Model Expo and was the lively auctioneer for our kit auctions. Joel also took on the exacting task of ordering and managing the club's custom T-shirts, Hawaiian shirts, and hats.
Joel led an exciting life as a firefighter for over 30 years with the California Department of Forestry and Fire...
read more...It is election time for IPMS/USA! The following nominations have been successfully made for their respective positions.
Biographies for each of the candidates will be published in the March/April Journal, which will also contain paper ballots...
read more...IPMS/USA Members,
As I write this, we are about halfway through the 60th year of IPMS/USA, and there are several ways we are celebrating.
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order on February 16th, 2025 at 7:00pm EST by Phil Peterson.
Roundtable/Action Item Updates
PP – No updates at this time other than the State of the Society draft has been sent to the Eboard for review and feedback.
JN – New suppliers added for the reviewer corps. Still having difficulty giving away 60th anniversary prizes and may start calling winners to get them out. The Industry Appreciation Dinner will be a little different this year, it will consist of heavy hors d’oeuvres and will include sponsors as well as vendors....
read more...Call to Order
The meeting was called to order on January 19th, 2025 at 7pm EST by Phil Peterson.
Roundtable/ Action Item Updates
MVS- Working on cleaning up the spreadsheets of addresses before sending to spectra print for billing. 5,080 total journals are going out for the Nov/Dec issue. 4,790 mailed within the USA, 78 to foreign addresses, and 212 are being sent with expiration notice. Should be mailing out pins this coming week now that envelopes and labels have been handled. Has also been helping members take advantage of the 60th anniversary membership option.
EA- 2025 National...
read more...Call to Order
The meeting was called to order on December 15th, 2024 at 7:00pm EST by Phil Peterson.
Roundtable/Action Item Updates
EA- The review site theme is in need of an update and will work on re-building the theme but this will result in the site being offline for a day or two. A message will be posted so the members are aware.
MVS- Working on getting the 60th anniversary pins out to members. Envelopes have been purchased and now working on the labels. Due to increasing costs of postage, the cost of purchasing additional copies of the Journal will increase from $5 to $7....
read more...Call to Order
The meeting was called to order on October 20th, 2024 at 7:00pm EST by Phil Peterson
Special Presentation
Toni, Director of Nautical Research Guild, joined to discuss ways that NRG might work with IPMS, no action taken at this time.
Round Table/Action Item Updates
MVS – Working on disseminating pins to the local chapters, needs to order bubble mailers for shipping them. 60th Anniversary membership deal...
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John Figueroa had resigned his position as the IPMS/USA Director of Local Chapters (DLC) to concentrate his efforts as the Chairman of the IPMS/USA 2026 National Convention. The Executive Board would like to thank John for his exemplary service as DLC, and know he'll continue to bring his exceptional skill set to preparing for 2026 in Fort Wayne.
The IPMS/USA Executive Board has appointed Bob Delaney, currently the IPMS/USA Region 14 Coordinator, to fill the remainder of John's term. Please welcome Bob to your Executive Board.
Phil Peterson,
IPMS/USA President
Hi IPMS/USA Members,
I have been getting notified by several members that a spam email is out there supposedly coming from me.
Hey XXX,
I hope you are doing well. Do you have some free time today? I would greatly appreciate it if you could let me know. Thank you.
Phil Peterson
If you bite on the initial email, they then ask you to buy some gift cards to award to members. IPMS/USA is never going to ask members to make a purchase for us. This is a typical fraud scam and you probably get similar ones on a daily basis.
When getting such an email please check the address of the email that sent it. It definitely won't have me listed. Please report these to...
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