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## Announcements

- ### IPMS/USA Membership Programs Aimed at US Service Members and Veterans

I just wanted to post a brief update on the fact that IPMS/USA continues to provide two initiatives aimed at active, retired and disabled service members. These are as follows:

Disabled veterans – IPMS/USA will provide a free year’s membership to any disabled veteran of a US military branch in appreciation for their sacrifices in support of our country.
- ### 2025 IPMS/USA Executive Board Election Results

**President** – John Noack
**1st Vice President** – David Morissette
**2nd Vice President** – Scott Hackney
**Secretary** – Joe Terry
**Director of Local Chapters** – Bob Delaney
**Historian/Publications Director** – Chris Bucholtz
**Recruitment and Retention Secretary** – David Knights
- ### 2025 IPMS/USA National Convention Award Winners

Here is an updated PDF of the 2025 IPMS/USA National Convention Award Winners.
- ### 2025 IPMS/USA National Convention Awards Ceremony

Here is the PDF of the 2025 IPMS/USA National Convention Awards Ceremony.
- ### 2024 IPMS/USA National Achievement Awards

**Chapter of the Year:** Capitol Area Models Society

**Newslette**r: Eastern Carolina Plastic Modelers

**Website:** Nate Jones Missouri Ozark Scale Modelers

**Region Coordinator of the Year:** JC Osbourne, R8

**Member of the Year:** Tim Burke, IPMS NENY

## News

- ### October 2025 Executive Board Meeting Minutes

*October 30, 2025*

October 19th, 2025

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- ### September 2025 Executive Board Meeting Minutes

*October 20, 2025*

Eboard Working Meeting

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- ### 2025 IPMS/USA Annual Business Meeting

*August 14, 2025*

August 9th, 2025

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- ### July 2025 Executive Board Meeting Minutes

*July 28, 2025*

Eboard & Staff Quarterly Meeting

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- ### June 2025 Executive Board Meeting Minutes

*July 18, 2025*

Call to Order

The meeting was called to order on June 22nd, 2025 at 7:00pm EST by...

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## Upcoming Events

- **Kit Con** on November 22, 2025 - Raleigh, NC
- **ModelFiesta 2026** on January 3, 2026 - New Braunfels, TX
- **Chattanooga ModelCon 2026** on January 9, 2026 - Chattanooga, TN
- **JAXCON 2026** on February 6, 2026 - Jacksonville, FL
- **4M Mayhem** on February 7, 2026 - University Center, MI
- **2026 Hope it Don't Snow Show** on February 7, 2026 - Roochester, MN

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## In The Latest Journal

- **A Bone To Pick** \- Building the Revell B1b in 1/48th scale, *by Christian Hocherl*
- **Captain Miller's Last Stand** \- Inspired by the Movie "Saving Private Ryan", *by Val Envo*
- **USS Hopewell** - DD681 Fletcher Class Destroyer in 1/350 scale, *by Ron Odell*
- **Resurrection!** - A Saga of the Entex Pendle Princess, *by Ken Friend*
- **Apache Longbow** - Takom's 1/35th AH-64D, *by Andre de Lamerens*
- **Serious About Show Cars** \- A Tom Daniel Car Collection, *by Joe Porche*

Download sample Journal Articles.
Also see our **Journal Index of Issues**!

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## New Reviews

- ## Keeler's Kustoms '23 Competition Pickup

#### by Frank Landrus

*November 17, 2025*

### Background

Atlantis Model Company was founded in 2009 by the former owners of Megahobby.com, Peter Vetri and Rick DelFavero. Atlantis manufactures injection-molded plastic model kits and...

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- ## ICM- WWI Armored Vehicle Acrylic Paint Set

#### by Michael Reeves

*November 17, 2025*

ICM has been releasing quality kits, figure sets, and recently paints to support their vast library of releases. Today, we see a set dedicated to WWI Armored Vehicles. These are water-based...

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- ## Modern Carrier USN Paint Set

#### by Scott Hollingshead

*November 17, 2025*

In case you were not aware, last year Squadron joined up with Scale Colors to release a line of paints that include sets as well as individual colors. These paints are acrylic and are best thinned...

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- ## UH-60M Black Hawk

#### by Chris Vandegrift

*November 17, 2025*

What really drew me to this release was the Aussie option! The Australians started getting the UH-60M in 2023, and traditionally they use it for long-range search and rescue in the Outback and...

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- ## High Precision Sprue Cutter

#### by Floyd S. Werner Jr.

*November 15, 2025*

Tools-You can never have enough. You don’t need it until you need it. With the return of Squadron they are developing their own line of modeling products. In this case it is high quality sprue...

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## New Forum Posts

- ### The Mothman

*November 16, 2025*

In a rather surprise move IMHO a manufacturer has come up with a cryptid scale model. Earlier this year, Pegasus Models has released the Mothman.
- ### Hasegawa 1/48 A-4M Skyhawk VMA-214

*November 15, 2025*

This next build is the Hasegawa 1/48 scale A-4M Skyhawk. I chose this particular build for a couple of reasons. I have already built a few aircraft related to the “Blacksheep” Squadron and since... more »
- ### 1/48 CollectAire resin B-57B Canberra

*November 14, 2025*

This is the out-of-production CollectAire resin B-57B Canberra built OOTB. The starting point...... this is one of CA's better kits with hollow cast wings and fuselage and very smooth... more »
- ### 1/700 scale US Cold War SSNs

*November 8, 2025*

These are 1/700 scale resin kits produced by Ralph Ratcliffe during the 1990's. They represent the Sturgeon class SSN 637, the early 688 Los Angeles class, the later 688I (Improved) class,... more »
- ### SSBN 641 USS SIMON BOLIVAR

*November 8, 2025*

One of the submarines in the last class (Benjamin Franklin class) of the 41 Polaris/Poseidon ballistic missile submarines. In 1979, the Bolivar entered overhaul and conversion of her ballistic... more »
- ### USS Clamagore- a Guppy III modified submarine

*November 8, 2025*

Following WWII, the US had a large number of relatively new diesel fleet submarines. Although these were very successful in the Pacific War, the technology and development of the German Type XXI U-... more »

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