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With so many model shops closed at the moment and no shows to attend, the opportunities for buying models and all the bits and pieces that go with them is somewhat more limited. Inevitably that means modellers are turning more and more to ordering things online instead. Many model shops already offer an online alternative…

I have have very little to report my blog entry last week. The new edition of the IPMS (UK) Magazine should be dropping onto your doorsteps at the moment so hopefully you’ll find something of interest inside it. Even if the articles may not be immediately appealing then it’s worth taking a look at them….

So now you know. There won’t be a Scale ModelWorld in 2020. For several months we continued to work towards the goal of running an event in November that despite all the restrictions we expected to have to deal with, would be worthy of being called Scale ModelWorld. It was clear it would be a…

It is perhaps inevitable that as other model shows are cancelled deeper and deeper into the year that the future of this year’s Scale ModelWorld continues to raise its head. At this point in time, Scale ModelWorld is still seven months away and from a practical perspective IPMS (UK) doesn’t need to make any final…

We all know that Covid 19 has had a disastrous impact on the model show circuit in 2020 and is likely to have a big impact on the shows in 2021 as well. It has also made a huge difference to the way we operate our many branch meetings and perhaps encouraged more of our…

It’s Easter weekend, but not like any other I’ve experienced. To a degree, the first week of lock-down didn’t impose on me quite as much as I expected. I was on leave so I hadn’t expected to be in the office anyway. However, even before that I was fairly certain that when I went back…