International Plastic Modelers' Society / USAInternational Plastic Modelers' Society / USAIPMS/USAIPMS/USAJust an FYI to all members, the September/October Journal has not been sent out yet due to the amount of information that will be in this next issue as well coverage from the National Convention.
Thank you for your patience!
Marie Van Schoonhoven - Office Manager, IPMS/USA
Total Active Membership - 3848
Percentage needed - 15% or 577
Here are the winners lists for the 2017 IPMS/USA National Contest.
Here is a PDF of the IPMS/USA Business Meeting Slides from the 2017 National Convention.
If you are going to the National Convention and are on Twitter, use #ipmsnats to tag your tweets. Also, we'd love to see any videos or images you take! Please let us know via the official IPMS/USA twitter account @ipmsusa
The Reviews site will be offline during the National Convention for a major update.
We are only 3 weeks away from another great IPMS Convention. The contest features almost 200 competitive categories plus unique theme awards for 2017. A picture of our incredible trophies is attached.
For those that have already sponsored trophy packages: Thank you all for your support.
If you have not sponsored a package yet, please consider that the trophy package is one of the major contest expenses. Convention chapters work to provide quality awards, but that costs money. As with other conventions, we do not want trophies to be a "profit" item, but we do need them to break even. Only a little over half of the trophies are currently sponsored and, like so many past conventions, we will find the other half unsponsored and the general convention fund will have to make up...
read more...If you joined IPMS/USA between the years 1967 and 1995 inclusive and have never had a lapse in membership, you qualify for a 25 Continuous Years Membership Pin. The first stage in the distribution of these pins will be at the National Convention in Omaha. If you are at the convention and qualify for one of these pins, come to the IPMS/USA National Table at the convention to collect your award. The rest of the pins will be distributed after that.
We have a new Chapter in Region 13 - IPMS/ Nautical Research Guild.
read more...The NRG was formed in 1948 and is a 501 (c)(3) organization.
The current membership of the Nautical Research Guild is approximately 1,100 members from the US, Canada, Mexico and 27 other countries.
We publish the Nautical Research Journal on a quarterly basis. It is mailed to all members.
We hold an Annual Conference in the fall at various locations around the US - mostly in coastal locations near maritime attractions with links to maritime history. We often hold our conferences with or at local Maritime Museums.
We have a 7 member Board of Directors, elected by the membership at large, to serve 3 year terms - without limit on the number of terms. The board...