If you are a modeling affectionate safely has seen these initials in more than an opportunity, which correspond with the term INTERNATIONAL PLASTIC MODELLERS SOCIETY. The first IPMS group was established in the United Kingdom in 1963, created originally as the British Plastic Modellers Society, a group without profit purposes interested in the development and promotion of the plastic modeling, which distinguishes to other groups of modellers interested in other branches of the modeling like, for example, RC, model trains or wooden ships.
Immediately after the creation of the original IPMS other groups appeared in different countries, specially in Europe and then in the USA. Little later this groups arose in Latin America and in the rest of the world. We prune to affirm that in the majority of the countries exists at least an IPMS group, each of them adapted to the uses and customs of its region, giving priority to the concept of hobby as entertainment.
The activity of these groups is characterized by the meetings of the members and by the execution of regional, national and up to international conventions with modellers of all latitudes exhibiting his models, taking part in contests, promoting the activity and, fundamentally, establishing bows of fellowship with other colleagues.
In Argentina, the first IPMS was founded in the city of Bahía Blanca in 1984 and then, in 1985, the IPMS Mar del Plata was founded, being at present the most former group in activity in the country. Across the years in the whole Argentina new groups have arisen, each one holds to its possibilities and criteria, in agreement to the original spirit of this activity. All of them realize every year a regional convention, and the organization of the national annual convention is rotary.

As we narrate in the previous paragraph, the IPMS Mar del Plata continues its activity and is close to celebrate its 25 anniversary. The following ones are only some of the members, many of them are founder members or with more than twenty years in the group. We invite you to navigate this web and see the models that they build.

Every Friday at 8:30 P.M. the IPMS Mar del Plata members meets at Cultural Center Osvaldo Soriano located at 3108 25 de Mayo St., thanks to the space yielded by this entity that could see the importance that bears this activity not only in its modeling aspect but also like diffusive of historical and cultural knowledges.
In the above mentioned meetings the members, between other things, exhibit his models to his friends and interchange ideas and opinions related to this entertainment. Also are always welcome the new modelers interested in be inserting in the world of the plastic models and in to be able to learn and to share experiences with other persons with the same interests.
And certainly never lacks the opportunity to enjoy other moments out of the weekly meetings, savouring a barbecue…

We invite you to join the IPMS Mar del Plata.