International Plastic Modelers' Society / USA

International Plastic Modelers' Society / USA

IPMS/USA

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  • IPMS/USA is seeking a volunteer candidate for the newly created position of IT Director. This person will report to the President of IPMS/USA as a voting member of the Executive Board. Duties and responsibilities include:

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2026 January/February IPMS/USA Journal
  • Brummbar - Sd.Kfz.166, by Jose Ramon Ruiz
  • Building a New Junior Model Club in Cincinatti, by Will Kuhrt
  • Blast From the Past - Building the Atlantis re-pop of the 1953 Revell USS Iowa, by Doug Bain
  • Super Detailing a Tempest MK. V - Tackling the Tempest, by Wenjun Wen
  • Oniraizer - Rise of the Demon, by Chi Wang
  • Building Zoukei-Mura's Bf-109 G4 as a Skeleton Modelby Ro Annis
  • Constructing a 1/25th Scale Diamond T Wreckerby Charles Rowley
  • The Ruins of Warby Bob Bisaccio

New Reviews

  • by Ro Annis

    August 3, 2026

    In the Box

    The kit comes in a sturdy 12” x 8” x 5” box with an illustration of the Tsubaki figure. Images of the finished model can be found on the box sides. Like Gundam kits, it comes...

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  • by Floyd S. Werner Jr.

    August 3, 2026

    For years the only way you could get an AH/MH-6 Little Bird in 1/48th scale was to buy a Hasegawa Hughes 500 and a CMK conversion set. This was expensive and sometimes hard to find. Now...

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  • by Floyd S. Werner Jr.

    August 3, 2026

    When I built my Werner’s Wings MH-47E conversion from the Trumpeter CH-47D I found out something that almost made me shelf the model, the landing gear was crap. Not in that it lacked detail but in...

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  • by Paul Bradley

    July 31, 2026

    Scale Aircraft Conversions (SAC) provides resin and white metal parts for scale model aircraft, most of which are drop-in landing gear replacements. Their standard packaging is a card-backed...

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  • by Rod Lees

    July 31, 2026

    First off, a note of thanks to Revell for providing this kit to IPMS/USA!

    I have had the fortune to build just about every major manufacturer’s” Battle Penguin” since the mid-2015 period (...

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New Forum Posts

  • August 1, 2026
    HI ! Here another project I been working on for a couple of years, now is the AVROCAR PROGRAM , not much people know that this program started by selling the ideal to create a flying saucer... more »
  • August 1, 2026
    HI ! Here another project I have done in the past , if you like to view more pics of the project , just visit this GOGLE link : https://photos.app.goo.gl/8Md8WHC7JX9ZrfTb8... more »
  • August 1, 2026
    Recently I airbrushed some Testers Fluorescent Orange paint and had something strange happen. While the paint went on well, as soon as I started spraying, gossamer strands were floating in the air... more »
  • July 31, 2026
    So I finally wrapped this one up a short while ago, and it is my 6th completion for this year. I’m almost on track for an average of one a month at this rate! This is the Tamiya classic Krupp Protze... more »
  • July 29, 2026
    "It's Fronkenstein" "You're puttin' me on?" "No..." "Well then why isn't it Froderick Fronkenstein?" "It isn't, it's... more »
  • July 28, 2026
    A easy, basic kit of the Bull Frog. With the exception of the cockpit clear piece, the fit was good. Had to use stars & bars and the HMM 261 (actually a 268)from a Fujimi kit as HB got theirs... more »
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