Due to Covid-19 pandemic, this year 13th FNSS PlasticBattle Armor Modelling Show will be held ONLINE.

To participate in the competition, modelers can select the relevant competition category and upload pictures of their models on fnssplasticbattle.com between July 6th and September 7th 2020.

The organization which distinguishes itself being the only scale modeling competition held under the sponsorship of a defense company can be followed on fnssplasticbattle.com website.

Registration and Participation : 06 July – 07 September 2020

Judging : 10 – 13 September 2020

Announcement of Results : 16 September 2020

ATLAS TRAINLAND EVENT CANCELLED

Pascal Zandt and the folks at Interpro Travel Service are once again doing a military history enthusiast and modeler tailored tour of Europe. Their first "Tanks A Lot Tour" was in 2017 and was reportedly a great success. The new tour will happen in May of 2019 so if you are interested in traveling around to all the places most loved by historians and modelers this is your chance!

Jan Zdiarsky, Ph.D, who is one of the team at Eduard also runs the Museum of Air Battle over the Ore Mountains in the Czech Republic, who are holding a crowdfunding project with the aim to raise funds for their 20th anniversary of the museum.
Details on how to support this museum, if you wish, on keeping history alive is shown below.

FNSS 10th Plastic Battle Armor Model Show will be held on FNSS Facilities on Golbasi - Ankara - Turkey on 16-17 September 2017.

An exciting event coming to the National Capital Region of Canada, featuring Air Force display team from Canada and France.

Scale Model Club "Novi Sad" - IPMS Serbia invites you to take part in first online competition honoring lieutenant commander Aleksandar Berić.

Pascal Zandt has sent us news of a travel opportunity for a limited number of tank and history fanatics who would like to tour Europe and see sites of famed tank museums, battlefields, and the like.

Looking for another great show to attand? October 8th, 2016 check out the High Plains Con XXVII at the 4-H Building, Larimer County Fairgrounds.

The Free Time Fall Festival model contest will be held October 8th, 2016 again at Free Time Hobbies in Blue Ridge, GA. Starting at 9:00 AM

Darren Baker brings us news of two upcoming events at the Museum of Army Flying. Situated 5 miles from Andover, the museum is easily reached by car or public transport.

Luciano Satornetti and Darren Baker have sent us glimpses of some of the new kits on show at the Japan Model & Hobby Show 2015.

While this site is about ship modeling, I consider inspiration part of the modeling process (for myself, anyway). Coming out in 2016 is a film made by the Disney Company about one of maritime histories greatest rescue at sea stories.

Founded in 1948, the Nautical Research Guild is a Federally approved nonprofit educational organization with an international membership of historians, ship model makers, artists and laypersons with a common interest in the history, beauty and technical sophistication of ships and their models. This October 22nd - 24th they are having a conference in Mystic Connecticut that includes a private tour of Mystic Seaport.

IPMS Hellas is proud to announce its 34th Annual Exhibition & Contest, which is going to be held in the Hellinikon Olympic Hockey Centre, in Athens, between the 1st and the 4th of October 2015.

The 21st AMPS 2015 International Convention is quickly approaching. April 30 to May 02, 2015 at the WW2 Victory Museum, Auburn IN…and Vallejo will be there!! Todd Michalak gives up a rundown of what to expect from this year’s show and Vallejo’s part at the show.

Wespe Models will be present at AMPS International Convention,
Apr 30- 02 May, 2015, WW2 Victory Museum, Auburn IN.

The Miniature Armoured Fighting Vehicles Association (MAFVA) will hold its 50th anniversary UK Nationals show at IWM Duxford again this year, on Father's Day!

Based on response to a small contest in store, Hobby Center is having its first Ottawa Scale Auto Contest on September 14, 2014.

After a year hiatus, the California Show put on by SCAHMS is back for 2014. The show is going to be at a new venue this year, but not far from it's old home.

Thanks to David L. Veres for details of how Testors will be showcasing their extensive range of products at Nurnberg's Toy Fair at the end of this month:

The Airbrush Company has announced they will host the first NOAH UNIVERSITY event in the UK!

Shesto Ltd. have sent us details of their attendance at this year's Nürnberg International Toy Fair:

STEAM WRECKING CRANE DEMO AT NEVADA RAILWAY SYMPOSIUM

Fri., Sept. 21, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Report on the SCAHMS Modeling Seminar July 28th
By Penny Meyer

The SCAHMS all-day seminar and modeling day was a great success and we will be doing more of this sort of thing. We are a modeling club and I think it is wonderful that we are making movements to get us all working together and having fun. Please join us and help us make a regular schedule of getting together and glueing and painting things.

Our friend John Rosengrant was called away to work on a film location so he was very sorry to not be able to join us. He has said that he will re-schedule his workshop later in the year so please keep tuned in for the announcements.
When John announced that he could not make it, Bill Horan stepped in and offered to break his day into 2 sections, one of painting and one of sculpting. Thank-you so much for doing this Bill!
Our instructors were David Whitford and Lars Liljeblad in the Airbrush Area, Bill Horan and Penny Meyer for the Painting Area and Bill Horan for the Sculpting Area.

Bill Dunkle, one of our long time friends and supporters, came all the way from Phoenix to spend the morning session with us. He and Aaron Lovejoy from San Diego drove the furthest to come for instruction and we certainly appreciate their efforts to be able to join us. Bill D. and Aaron were joined by Steven Lloyd and Jim Mendoza in the painter’s area.

Bill Horan then provided us with a great demonstration of how he paints a 54mm head. Bill then answered a lot of questions and provided a critique of some work each person brought with them, to help them improve the look of their figures.

After lunch, Bill gave a demonstration of how he sculpts a figure with A&B putty.
Across the room we had a great airbrush work area set-up by Lars Liljeblad and David Whitford. Michael Butman, Jim Hill and Victoria Geis played with the equipment and had fun. It was Michael’s first time using an airbrush He really enjoyed himself and it inspired me to look into getting my airbrush set up at home. Aaron joined the airbrush group after Bill Horan retired for the day. It really was great fun to watch.
Stay tuned for updates on another SCAHMS workshop coming soon!

The 2012 California Show may be over, but for a select few it was their time to bask in the spotlight. There were some truly stunning entries this year from all over the globe, notably the Best in Show winner by Riccardo Ruberti; a 54mm vignette entitled "La carica dello squadrone Keren a Kassala" (The charge of the squadron Keren in Kassala).

Not a new product this time, but a great opportunity. If you will be in the Burbank, CA area in April here is your chance to learn at the Monsterpalooza.

Nevada Northern Railway, treasured National Historic Landmark in Ely, Nevada, has announced their schedule of events for 2012! This incredible railroad is the subject of several photo features at this site.

As well as exhibiting their comprehensive ranges of modelling tools of almost every description at this year's Spielwarenmesse International Toy Fair, Shesto Ltd. will be holding master-classes to showcase the Aztec and Spraycraft airbrushes.

Gateway Chapter IPMS will present its Invitational model contest and swap meet on Sat., Sept. 10, 2011 at Hitters' Choice Cages, 534 Workman Road, Eureka, MO 63025.

Nevada Northern Railway is having a special Memorial Day weekend.

Herpa Tag Der Offenen Tür Open House.

For a downloadable list of the 2011 California Show Awards, click "READ MORE"

Bovington Tank Museum send us news of Tank Fest 2011 and events at the museum in February.

This years Tank Fest is scheduled for June 25th - 26th. Tickets are now available.

The 2011 AMPS International Convention is scheduled for 6-9 April, at the Hospitality House in Fredericksburg, VA. This is the largest armor modeling event in North America and draws participants from all over the world.

We've finished the revision of the AMPS contest rules and asked our web-master to publishing them in the Show and Convention portion of the AMPS web-site (www.amps-armor.org). They should be available shortly.

If you are planning on attending the 2011 SCAHMS California Show in Orange you may want to book your rooms now. The show is going to be March 18th and 19th this year. If you have never attended this event take a look at the photos from last years show to see what you have been missing.

August 4-7 2010 IPMS-USA National Convention is in Phoenix, Arizona.

Eduard takes time to say hello from Brno. Great day, lot of visitors and excellent models there. This exhibition has amazing 1200 models in the competition...!

If you love trains and chocolate, this is for you!

Details have just been sent to us of the Military Vehicle Preservation Society's annual Convention.

Historic living Nevada Northern Railway Museum is hosting their Memorial Day Weekend open house Saturday, May 29 through Monday, May 31. Amongst the attractions are double-headed steam excursion trains, speeder & velocipede rides, steam crane demonstrations, Barbecue, and a host of other thrilling events!

Saturday, July 17, 2010, is the day of the 1st Annual Fine Scale Model Show for the Tri-Cities in northeastern Tennessee.

Some News of an interesting event. Ian Hanratty of Friendship Models s has just mailed me with details of a different kind of Model Show.

Hot on the heels of Part 1 comes the second of Hobby Link Japan's reports from the Tokyo Model Show.

HobbyLink Japan have released the first installment of their Video Podcasts of this year's Tokyo Hobby Show.

"Fireball", the 1:6th scale radio controlled P-47M built by Dave Gianakos and Bob Frey, was presented to the Valiant Air Command Museum in Titusville, Florida recently.

The History Channel announces their upcoming series Battle 360: USS Enterprise. The ten-week series premiers Friday, February 29 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Battle 360 will follows the Enterprise and its crews from Pearl Harbor to the end of World War II. With the sophistication of a 360-coordination between the carrier, the destroyers, the aircraft dominating the skies above and the submarines blanketing the deep, BATTLE 360 puts viewers into the action like never before using the latest technology and cutting-edge computer graphic animation. This series will follow the Enterprise and its men from the start of the war through to the last battle. As the war went on, the ship changed, the men changed, and the battles were never the same.