International Plastic Modellers' Society
The International Plastic Modellers' Society (IPMS) consist of local chapters and national branches of hobbyists interested in building Plastic model kits. The first branch was established in the United Kingdom in 1963.
These chapters usually organise regular meetings or attend events of interest such as air shows.
Within each branch, Special Interest Groups (SIG) are formed which focus on a specific area or type of model building, for instance aircraft or science fiction figures.
The following is a current list of IPMS (UK) SIG's
Aerobatic Display Teams ; Aircraft Carrier ; Airfix Modelling ; Airliner ; Airport, Aerodrome & Airfields ; Armour TAS Armour ; Australia ; Aviation Ireland ; Battle of Britain ; Battleship ; Between The Wars ; Beyond the Box ; Biggles ; Bomber Command ; Brazil (São Paulo) CAFFE ; Canberra ; Car & Motorcycle ; Civil Aircraft 1/72 ; Classic British Jets ; Classic British Kit ; Classic US Jets ; Coastal Command ; Cold War ; Cruiser ; Czech & Slovak ; DC3 / C47 Dakota ; Eighth USAAF 1942 - 45 ; English Electric ; F-4 Phantom ; Fine Waterline ; Finnish ; Fleet Air Arm ; Formula 1 & Motorsports ; French Airforces ; Gulf War ; Harrier ; Harvard ; Hawk AJT ; Hawker Hurricane ; Hot Rod and Custom Car ; Israeli Defence Forces ; Italia ; Japanese Aviation ; Landing Craft ; Latin American Aviation ; Luftwaffe ; NASA ; New Zealand Aviation ; Night Fighter ; Panavia Tornado; Photo-Recce ; Portuguese Military Aviation ; Project Cancelled ; Racing and Record Aircraft ; Red Cross Wings ; SAAF ; Sci-Fi and Fantasy ; SIG 144 ; Small Warships ; South Atlantic ; Soviet Aircraft ; Special Schemes ; Spitfire ; Splash ; Swedish Airforces ; 1/32 Scale ; Truck ; UK and Commonwealth Armed Forces ; US Air Forces of WWII ; US Airforces ; US Naval Aircraft ; Vietnam ; Warbirds ; What If? ; World Helicopters ; World War Two ;
IPMS is divided up into different Chapters representing a country. Some countries i.e. Mexico will build models for IPMS USA, or IPMS Canada.
List of International IPMS Branches
- IPMS Argentina
- IPMS Australia
- IPMS Belgium
- IPMS Borinqueneers (Puerto Rico)
- IPMS Bulgaria
- IPMS Brazil (São Paulo)
- IPMS Canada (formed in 1964)
- IPMS Chile
- IPMS Colombia
- IPMS Costa Rica
- IPMS Czech Republic
- IPMS Cyprus
- IPMS Denmark
- IPMS Ecuador GMEC
- IPMS Finland
- IPMS Germany
- IPMS Hellas (Greece)
- IPMS Guatemala
- IPMS Ireland
- IPMS Italy
- IPMS Korea
- IPMS Latvia (formed in 2014)
- IPMS Malta
- IPMS Mexico
- IPMS Netherlands
- IPMS New Zealand
- IPMS Norway
- IPMS Panamá
- IPMS Philippines
- IPMS Poland
- IPMS Qatar
- IPMS Serbia
- IPMS South Africa
- IPMS Sweden
- IPMS Switzerland
- IPMS Spain
- IPMS UK (formed in 1963)
- IPMS Uruguay
- IPMS USA (formed in 1964)
See also
- Similar societies
- Models and model building
- list of model aircraft manufacturers.
- Kitbashing, creating a model by combining different kits.
- Model military vehicles
- Ship models, some of which are plastic kits.
- Gundam Models, plastic models of Japanese science fiction.
- Manufacturers
- Tamiya Corporation
- Academy Plastic Model Co.
- Revell
- Aoshima Bunka Kyozai Co.
- Dragon Models Limited DML.
- Hasegawa
- Kyosho
- Airfix
External links
- IPMS Australia
- IPMS Belgium
- IPMS Brazil (Sao Paulo)
- IPMS BORINQUENEERS (Puerto Rico)
- IPMS Canada
- IPMS Denmark
- IPMS Greece
- IPMS Guatemala
- IPMS Ireland
- IPMS Italy
- IPMS Korea
- IPMS Malta
- IPMS Mexico
- IPMS Netherlands
- IPMS New Zealand
- IPMS Norway
- IPMS Philippines Bert Anido
- IPMS Poland
- IPMS Doha, Qatar
- IPMS South Africa
- IPMS UK
- IPMS Farnborough club site
- IPMS Uruguay
- IPMS USA
- IPMS Panamá
- IPMS ALTO VALLE - NEUQUEN, ARGENTINA
- APMA Sydney Australia
- IPMS Stockholm
- IPMS Switzerland
- IPMS Sverige
- IPMS Srbija
- IPMS ECUADOR GMEC