The IPMS UK's 50th Anniversary Show Scale Modelworld 2013 will be held on the weekend of the 9th and 10th of November. Many of our modelling friends from all over the world will be attending this very special event at the International Exhibition Centre at Telford UK.
It's humble beginnings were from when a small group of plastic modellers met in the upstairs room of a London pub in 1963 to form the British Plastic Modellers Society. Word got out very quickly that this society was forming and interest from abroad prompted a quick change of name to the International Plastic Modellers Society as we now know it. Soon after, during 1964, IPMS USA was formed and their 50th will soon be celebrated at their convention in 2014. From these beginnings, IPMS has grown to be the largest scale modelling society in the world, benefitting now from many worldwide branches and friendships made over the years. So 2013 and 2014 are special years for the society as both the UK and USA branches formed the foundation upon which the society has developed into what it is now