Building Plastic Models with the International Plastic Modelers Society

The IPMS, International Plastic Modelers Society, is the world's largest club for builders of plastic models and they hold hundreds of model contests every year including the largest model show in the world in Telford England. This week we travel to one for their small regional shows to see some outstanding screwing around.
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[@karl7108]

Excellent story about history of plastic models. Thanks.

[@ericrosengren1661]

Enjoyed the history. Thanks for sharing!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Love the IPMS. What to get to the National.

[@LANDSEAAIRCANADA]

Excellent ! love those crazy car kit even built a few thanks for sharing.

[@kimfucku8074]

Garage-Mahal, love it!

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

Another brilliant Toy Man episode! So cool.. loved to put together model cars! I would always build the original version of the car.. Then use all the extra parts for the "Funny Car" version.. assemble THOSE parts into a strange Rat-Rod Dune Buggy! I think there is a little "Rat Fink" in all of us! Now... To find one of those models!! Thanks Dale! :D

[@earningcrowd3369]

love the historical part of this video

[@FasterTheDragster]

Fantastic tour and info, your a great narrator too! always fun and informative!

[@ToyManTelevision]

+Faster The Dragster Thanks! From the name I assume you are into drag racing? Have you looked at the race car shows? The Daytona Coup show is amazing. The cars are anyway.

[@tdfisk]

I just happened by your video and really enjoyed it. I very rarely compliment model videos because they usually have something that irritates me. The biggest irritation is when someone does a video and they've suddenly forgot how to talk. There is either pauses, excessively repeating a word and so forth. I have to say your video is perfect. You're very fluent, humorous and I love how you show the typical model builder. People usually call their accumulation of kits as their stash, that sounds too much like drugs. I have a walk in closet full of kits and I call it my treasure room. I have over 100 kits, I wonder how many more I can squeeze in. A big part of my enjoyment is ordering and then waiting with anticipation like a kid waiting for Christmas. I even check the UPS updates every day. When it gets here I spend a good hour savoring my new treasures. My sons and their friends think I'm a bit looney and I tell them that at 67 I've earned that right. Model building for me is much more than just a hobbie. Ten years ago I was diagnosed with rheumatoid and fibromyalgia and found out by accident that model building is the perfect physical therapy and mental therapy. In the 3 years I've been building this time, I've built around 70 models. My models are far away from perfect because of my disability, but I do pretty good considering. I've had to learn new ways to use my hands and though that's a real challenge it's a wonderful feeling to defeat at least some of my limitations.The thing that really surprised me after a long time away from building was all of these new companies making the most remarkable kits. I'm almost done with my Trumpeter 1/350 Guided Missile Destroyer, the most complex and delicate model I've built. I've learned new ways of handling real small parts. So being a glutton for punishment my next model is the Hobby Boss 1/700 USS Bataan LHD. I'm thinking I may have to trade in my magnifying headset with a lab microscope with this one. :-) After I have a pain flare up I go through a slump with model building. I look for videos that motivate me to jump back in and your video did that extremely well. I just wanted you to know that there are people like me who really appreciate your videos and they make a big difference in helping people. Thomas

[@halbarbour7805]

Is the plane on your avatar a P-47 Thunderbolt?

[@tdfisk]

Hal Barbour No, that's a US Navy A-1 Skyraider, the best ground support aircraft in the Vietnam War. I did build this model, but the picture isn't the one I built. It turned out really good. It's the Tamiya 1/48. Thomas

[@halbarbour7805]

Weren't two of these credited with killing two MiG's during the Vietnam war?

[@tdfisk]

Hal Barbour Yes, they sure were. The really stupid Mig pilots did the one thing that gave the Skyraiders the advantage, head-on attack. Twelve 50 cal. guns can rip anything to pieces. I fired the 50 cal. once and it scared the shit out of me. I couldn't even begin to comprehend 12 of them firing all at once. Thomas

[@ToyManTelevision]

td fisk THANKS!! I love making these, love meeting people, building models, screwing around. The key to being happy is to love what you do and do what you love. If it turns out well, even better. And I find if you really are doing what you love you will do it well. Even if you have limitations. The pain you feel is nothing compared to the pain of hating your life. My father built models on a small table in the living room. He helped my brother and I learn and love building models. We were both doing than the night he died. What a great thing he gave us! We both still build, and collect, and screw around. And we are happy. Very happy. I've been working on this weeks video on the ford tri Motor. Now I want to model one! And so it goes. Keep building. Keep feeling better. And when the pain gets to bad, build in your mind. LIFE IS GOOD!

[@Archtops]

Great video that I enjoyed very much! Thanks! Subscribed.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Welcome abord!

[@AlexModeling]

Garage.. Mahal??? ahahaha.. just loved it! love this video and enjoiyng your channel! thanks for this one!

[@ToyManTelevision]

+AlexModeling Need to get back to the shop project!! Garagemahal. It now has HVAC!! Slow project, but FUN.

[@ToyManTelevision]

+AlexModeling Did you see kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJebe3WPpZZ7qac

[@crazycat200knock4]

I love ww2 aircraft modelling!!! Is so fun :)

[@ToyManTelevision]

+Crazycat200 knock I love building models in general. WW2 stuff is cool, great time in aircraft history, works of art.

[@ericverpeten4249]

love this vido, thanks for sharing.

[@ToyManTelevision]

These guys are great. Building models is flat fun.

[@alstokesveteranfilmmaker913]

Yes, I admit it in public for the first time ever, as a London urban pre-teenage kid in the 1960s I made plastic kits too and, like most of my friends they were mainly aircraft of WW2 vintage. There was a reason for this; the kits came with not just a history of the particular aircraft but how they fitted into history in general. Although family members and our fathers had 'done their bit' in the war, very few spoke about it afterwards and especially not in front of us children. For example, I knew my father served in the RAF but not what he did - I was in my fifties before I found out; during the Battle of Britain he was based at Fighter Command HQ down 'The Hole' (deep bunker) where the Spits and Hurricanes were directed onto enemy aircraft. If I'd only known that when I was an eight-year-old school kid ... Thanks once again for a great vid' on another barely known subject. (Over Here, anyway) Keep 'em coming.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Working in the hole!!! WOW. I can't even imagine what those times were like. My Uncle joined the Army in 39 as he thought we would go to war. AND they would pay for flying lesions. So he was a pilot before Pearl Harbor and within 3 months of the US joining the fight (VERY LATE) they had made him an officer and he was flying multi engine. BUT he was there so early they didn't give him a bomber as they didn't have any, SO they made him pilot to a General. Never left the states. Until after the war when they moved him to Germany. Still working in the Inspector General's office. Became an air traffic controller back in the states and made it to Colonel before he died screwing around with his war buddies water skiing. So as I'm running off at the mouth.... His brother joined the same day, but joined the navy as he loved big engines. THey sent him to Princeton to learn electrics and diesel engines. He ended up working in the engine room of a destroyer in the South Pacific. After the war he went to work as a diesel-electric electrician for Penn Central Railroad out of Chicago. He could get me on the trains!!! So that was cool.....

[@alstokesveteranfilmmaker913]

Thanks for your swift response. I had an uncle who was in the London Fire Brigade during the Blitz - seventy-six uninterrupted nights area bombing by the Luftwaffe which caused around 9-thousand deaths, thinking they could bomb the population into defeat by lowering their morale. Oops! Wrong. Most of the rest of my uncles were in the Army or 'reserved occupation' making bombers and other military wonders for the war effort, a aunt was in the WAAFs on an Ack-Ack gun. I interviewed a former AA gunner in 1973 and this he told me, "We used to elevate the gun as far it would go and keep on firing away until told to cease fire. We had no chance of hitting anything but it din'alf give the civilians courage knowing we were there, fighting back." A teenage aunt was a fire watcher which had her standing on a factory roof, amid raging fires and falling bombs calling out the locations of new fires. She had a breakdown during this and was hospitalized ... and not released back into the World until the early 1980s. Such was the long ago ignorance of mental health issues in wartime England. Post war my Father went back to his old job at Ealing Film Studios, as a lighting electrician, until it closed down in 1956 and went to work at a lighting hire company which possessed a Chapman Camera Crane. In 1968 he and the crane went North Weald and Duxford airfields where the film "Battle of Britain" was being made. He also took his new 8mm camera with him so got a loads aircraft footage of the bombing scenes, some of it sat at the 'other end' of the crane! That was the same year I left school and started work at BBC Ealing Film Studios. Oh yeah, he once told me I got my very short name from an American P-51 pilot he'd made friends with during his time in the RAF. Cadillac of the skies! You might be able to find info about The Hole if try the internet: friendsof11group.co.uk/

[@petrofilmeurope]

You make very friendly and plesant videos, nice to watch and enjoy. (Greetings from Oslo)

[@ToyManTelevision]

Gee, and I thought it was cold here! Love to get out that way. At some point. (in the summer)

[@karl7108]

Wonderful hobby. Love it ! And ... well... hope I'll live long enough too, haha !

[@ToyManTelevision]

+Karl This week we start UN PACKING AT GARAGEMAHALL!!!! (Fun) Thanks for the comment.

[@karl7108]

Toy Man Television Best regards good friend !

[@jadenstookey7676]

I can't wait for the imps convention this year on September 16th I'm going to enter in my Revell b-17 "Chow Hound"

[@jadenstookey7676]

IPMS*

[@ToyManTelevision]

Wish we could make it!!

[@oldschooler75]

Ty for a great video, I would like to find out if IPMS does shows in my are on this planet we call home. Ty again!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Unless you are on Alpha Centauri 3 there is a chapter. The Centaurians have little interest as they have no hands and don't like much of anything. But all the other planets have chapters. Even Earth!

[@walter770]

I like your wit!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks! We do have some goofy fun!!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Check out kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJebe3WPpZZ7qac For more on Garage-mahall.

[@TomcatModelKits]

Very nice video, I wish we had IPMS where I live but everyone builds Gunpla so all of the competitions and shows are Gundam related.

[@ToyManTelevision]

What's Gunpla?

[@TomcatModelKits]

Model kits based on the Japanese anime Gundam

[@ToyManTelevision]

OH THAT STUFF!! see it at the shows.... Any model is cool, but I'm a car, train, space ship guy. Scale space shops, NASA, or WILD 50's. Love that stuff!! I've built several space ships for movies. My fave is a cross between a gothic cathedral, mormon temple and the submarine from 20,000 leagues under the sea. With a hint of steam punk! Oh, and a bee hive.

[@TomcatModelKits]

Nice! :)

[@ToyManTelevision]

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[@SuperBommer1]

Hahaha really enjoyed this from a fellow plastiholic all the way down in South Africa

[@ToyManTelevision]

Now thats out of the way!!!! Talk about down under!! Fun that people build models EVERYWHERE. Really getting big in China!!

[@SuperBommer1]

In Cape Town we have a club of over 50 modelers A local Buy Sell Models Facebook page that does not allow any business on it has more than 1300 members so its quite big and becoming popular with guys 25 plus that is just married.

[@ToyManTelevision]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the IPMS. As I have said, on 6 continents, those being the ones wit people on them.

[@SuperBommer1]

We had a gentleman from Poland at our last competition He has now been at an IPMS competition on every continent. You should have seen his scratch build polish helicopter From what I have seen of competitions the former eastern block countries have on avarage some of the most awesome entries in competitions.

[@ToyManTelevision]

We want to go the the telford show at some point, just to be where it began. AND enter a model (and loose). PS DO share our fun times with your club(s). Love to see people watching the show from all over the world!

[@Buck1954]

I entered one of my custom diesel trucks in the early 70's and won first place in my age group. The adults were freaked out. Two years later I entered I entered My International Truck, complete with mud, rust, and broken fixtures, and again won first place in the adult division. Now I just pissed off the other adults. Then life interrupted and I have all these incomplete models in boxes, some put together some bought for parts and mixed together. I'm thinking now, what in the hell am I going to do with this stuff.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Build!!! Life is short. Models are many.

[@Buck1954]

@@ToyManTelevision Eyes are blurry. Maybe when I get off this monitor, eh?

[@lindamazer958]

Would love to start model building. Is there a club in "The Villages" or Lady Lake area?

[@ToyManTelevision]

+Linda Mazer IPMS is everywhere! Google and I'm sure there is one there close.

[@doverandover61]

very entertaining i thought

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks!! We have a few other show on plastic models. Dod you see the model that never was?

[@doverandover61]

Not yet but I will ;-)

[@InternationalBritishModeler]

Great video with cool history about the birth of modeling and the I.P.M.S shows...I really enjoyed it! I've been a KZbin modeler for 22 months now - started my channel on March 28th, 2014 and began modeling two years ago in January 2014 after retiring, and, this was a pure accident coming across this video of yours...wished I'd seen it back when it was released and subbed you then! Anyway, I build military aircraft and have built 25 to date, now working on my 26th, the Revell 1/32 Junkers Ju 88A-1 Bomber- my second German Bomber. Feel free to take a look at any of my videos, too! This is a link to my video showing my "Portfolio of Model Builds for 2015" displayed in chronological order. My favorites are the 1/32 Arado AR196A-3, the 1/32 BF109E-3, the 1/32 Spitfire Mk.IIa and my last build of 2015- the 1/48 Heinkel He 111H-22 with V1 "Flying Bomb". If you watch it, I hope you like! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaWQhaJmn8ylqqM Cheers, Martin :

[@ToyManTelevision]

+International British Modeler Cools stuff. Love building models of ANYTHING!!. DId you see kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJebe3WPpZZ7qac

[@InternationalBritishModeler]

Toy Man Television Thanks for watching, much appreciated, and, thanks for the link to your "GarageMahal" video...I just watched it before making this reply! Thanks for sharing! Cheers, Martin : )

[@ToyManTelevision]

I love working on the place. Which is good. Lot's of work!!!

[@amazingscalemodelers1292]

Garagemahall. Funny. Oh, and yet so-o true.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Still missing somethings. Weird...

[@Malcolm701]

Unfortunately plastic is not a durable material, especially the delicate parts like ariels and wheels etc. These models need to be kept in glass cases to protect them from clumsy hands etc etc.

[@ToyManTelevision]

And glue always fails at some point. Brass soldered together is always best, but who can do it? Plastic is a joy to work with. But your model may not outlive you. I am rebuilding a truck I built in the 70's FOR THE SECOND TIME. (Sigh) At least it's FUN to do.

[@tomzaccone4740]

Why is this guy apologizing for military models?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Tom Zaccone Who is apologizing for military models?

[@blacksparow9575]

I think the models are great but not good for nature as they r of plastic totally non biodegradable n excess shit ............... But still these models r nice

[@ToyManTelevision]

If you took all the plastic models thrown away in a year it would fill perhaps 3 trash trucks. If you take all the carpet thrown out per year its a band 10 feet wide all the way around the earth. Plastic bottles even worse. Models anit no problem.