IPMS NENY Scale Modeling Group
IPMS-NENY is based in the greater Capital District area of New York and has been a Chartered Chapter of IPMS/USA since 1970. We are an exceptionally informal and friendly group with a wide range of modeling interests and IPMS membership is not required.
Tim Burke Named IPMS-USA 2025 Member of the Year at the Nationals Award Ceremony!
A thirty-year IPMS-NENY member, Tim has proven to be a visionary and guiding force of the Chapter always championing the Chapter through public displays of models in historical context, arranging outings to local hobby shops and coordinating museum tours of interest to our members.
But more importantly, Tim’s zeal to keep IPMS NENY together and functioning as a chapter was critical in the days of the Pandemic when in-person meetings were unsafe. With his facile grasp of Internet technology, he instituted and hosted (and continues to host) Zoom meetings for IPMS NENY. These meetings kept us “together though apart” and even greatly expanded our ability to include IPMS members from other chapters and even other nations. Tim’s credentials as an academic librarian enabled him to recruit for these meetings an array of speakers who are authors, experts and leaders in military, aviation and naval history.
Tim’s appointment to the Board of Trustees of the Empire State Aerosciences Museum in Schenectady created more opportunities for IPMS NENY to volunteer and contribute as a club, and enhances recruitment of new modelers for membership in the Chapter. With Tim’s influence, we have been able to obtain the use of a perfect new space for our in-person meetings at the Museum.
A productive and award-winning armor, aircraft, and ship modeler, Tim is a generous and articulate teacher of his manifest modeling skills, leading to Tim’s appointment as Chief Judge for IPMS-NENY-hosted contests.
Tim demonstrates the myriad talents and unflagging enthusiasm necessary to take this IPMS chapter and, thereby, help take IPMS Region 1, into the future.
Congratulations, Tim, and thank you for all you do for the Chapter and its members!
A thirty-year IPMS-NENY member, Tim has proven to be a visionary and guiding force of the Chapter always championing the Chapter through public displays of models in historical context, arranging outings to local hobby shops and coordinating museum tours of interest to our members.
But more importantly, Tim’s zeal to keep IPMS NENY together and functioning as a chapter was critical in the days of the Pandemic when in-person meetings were unsafe. With his facile grasp of Internet technology, he instituted and hosted (and continues to host) Zoom meetings for IPMS NENY. These meetings kept us “together though apart” and even greatly expanded our ability to include IPMS members from other chapters and even other nations. Tim’s credentials as an academic librarian enabled him to recruit for these meetings an array of speakers who are authors, experts and leaders in military, aviation and naval history.
Tim’s appointment to the Board of Trustees of the Empire State Aerosciences Museum in Schenectady created more opportunities for IPMS NENY to volunteer and contribute as a club, and enhances recruitment of new modelers for membership in the Chapter. With Tim’s influence, we have been able to obtain the use of a perfect new space for our in-person meetings at the Museum.
A productive and award-winning armor, aircraft, and ship modeler, Tim is a generous and articulate teacher of his manifest modeling skills, leading to Tim’s appointment as Chief Judge for IPMS-NENY-hosted contests.
Tim demonstrates the myriad talents and unflagging enthusiasm necessary to take this IPMS chapter and, thereby, help take IPMS Region 1, into the future.
Congratulations, Tim, and thank you for all you do for the Chapter and its members!
NENY meetings offer the best of both worlds with monthly in-person meetings AND Zoom meetings!
In person meetings returned post-pandemic alongside our successful Zoom format. Enjoy the best of virtual and in person meeting formats as we continue to meet twice a month, once in person and once via Zoom, so now you can participate no matter where you live:
Join us for either or both meetings!
Visit the Meetings page for upcoming meeting dates and a sampling of what's been shared at past meetings to whet your modeling appetite.
Visit the Contact page for details about how to attend.
- Via Zoom on the first Thursday of the month, at 7 pm ET
- In person on the third Thursday of the month at the Empire State Aerosciences Museum in Glenville, NY, at 7 pm ET
Join us for either or both meetings!
Visit the Meetings page for upcoming meeting dates and a sampling of what's been shared at past meetings to whet your modeling appetite.
Visit the Contact page for details about how to attend.
From the More Distant Past
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Noreastcon 2023 Held Saturday, April 29
Noreastcon returned to New York's Albany area for 2023, hosted by IPMS-NENY! The support we received from attendees, seminar presenters, vendors, our raffle table crew,volunteers, and outside sponsors all helped make the show a success. We've posted the contest results and slideshows of the entries. Visit the Noreastcon 2023 page for the contest results and slideshows. |
IPMS NENY member Art Loder named IPMS/USA 2022 Person of the Year!
At the IPMS 2022 Nationals Awards Presentation, our own "Great White Father" Art Loder was named IPMS/USA Person of the Year in recognition of his tireless recruitment efforts for the hobby, his unquenchable enthusiasm for the craft of scale modeling, and his 50+ years of leadership of IPMS NENY.
Art has been the creator and leader of IPMS NENY for over 50 years. He has continuously motivated and nurtured and inspired it’s members to build, to research and learn, to teach, to organize conventions to meet and share knowledge and skills with other modelers and to judge contests with skill and integrity. We owe individual and collective thanks for Art's generosity of spirit in sharing his knowledge, enthusiasm, and encouragement!
Read the full text of the encomium submitted in support of Art's nomination.
Read the definition of encomium.
Art has been the creator and leader of IPMS NENY for over 50 years. He has continuously motivated and nurtured and inspired it’s members to build, to research and learn, to teach, to organize conventions to meet and share knowledge and skills with other modelers and to judge contests with skill and integrity. We owe individual and collective thanks for Art's generosity of spirit in sharing his knowledge, enthusiasm, and encouragement!
Read the full text of the encomium submitted in support of Art's nomination.
Read the definition of encomium.
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Noreastcon@50 in 2022
It was a great show and we thank everyone who attended, sponsored, and volunteered to make it happen! $500 Donated to UNICEF Ukrainian Relief for Children Fund Twenty percent of the proceeds from the Noreastcon@50 raffle were earmarked for Ukrainian relief and we added funds from the IPMS-NENY club treasury to make a donation of $500 to UNICEF earmarked for Ukrainian children. We appreciate everyone who supported the raffle and the show for helping make this donation possible. |
Visit the Noreastcon@50 pages to see the stats, access the contest results, and slideshows of the models on display.
More to See
Visit the member galleries!
Check out photos of our members' latest projects on our meetings page.
Visit our How-to pages for informative tips, techniques, and presentations.
Check out photos of our members' latest projects on our meetings page.
Visit our How-to pages for informative tips, techniques, and presentations.