IPMS-Seattle is the Seattle Chapter of the International Plastic Modelers Society. We were the first* IPMS Chapter in the United States.
We are a group of approximately 140+ model builders who meet once a month, have a fun time socializing, sharing with one another what we are working on, what we have completed in the past, what we plan to complete in the future, and sharing techniques used to achieve final results.
The goal of most members is to improve their modeling skills and to mentor others. Through learning from the successes of other members, teaching what they have discovered while building their own models to others, or simply by building models more frequently and learning-by-doing, members constantly learn new techniques and improve existing ones, all the while developing their own mastery of model building.
*Possibly more precisely, we "tied" for first with Texas as the first Chapter.
IPMS-Seattle meets the Second Saturday of every month (until July when it becomes the second Sunday) at the North Bellevue Community Center. Meetings start at 12:30PM and run until around 3:30PM.
Meetings are held at the North Bellevue Community Center:
4063 148th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA, 98009
(425)452-7681
4063 148th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA
98009
To join IPMS-Seattle, either click here, show up at a regularly scheduled meeting, or contact one of our Club Officers. If you would like, bring some model projects along with you to a meeting - we love to see completed models or works in progress!
Although the club is a chapter of the International Plastic Modeler Society, first and foremost it is about the skill of modeling. If you are a Model Railroad fan, for instance, and build models from balsa, bass wood, and paper mâché, in the end it is all about the skill of modeling, of making a scale representation of an object or event, and making it come to life!
