2025 IPMS/USA Nationals pictures and award results.

[seadude]

Pictures and award results from the August 2025 IPMS/USA National Model Convention in Hampton, Virginia.

Regular 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place winners

https://ipmsusa.org/sites/default/files/article/2025nationalsawardwinners.pdf

Junior and Best Of winners.

https://ipmsusa.org/sites/default/files/article/2025nationalsawardsceremony.pdf

Picture galleries of almost all the models featured at the IPMS/USA 2025 Nationals.

https://www.svsmgallery.com/Top-level/Contests/IPMSUSA2025?fbclid=IwY2xjawMIRwBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrGiuaRHs-nfILghuLyjHAAhrczvm5DgFm-R6a6GB9XnJqvp5doREcolKk3R_aem_ivqG5oWo55lel5dObhS-nQ

Dates and locations for the next IPMS Nationals:
Fort Wayne, Indiana, August 5-8, 2026
Huntsville, Alabama, July 14-17, 2027

[PR19_Kit]

That lot's going to take an AGE to get through! Thanks for the links Seadude.

I must say I find the plethora of classes at the US nationals very confusing, it's bad enough at the UK Nationals at Telford, but IPMS-USA seem to have a class for every individual entry! 

[Rheged]

Thank you for the pix.  I'm leaving this post bookmarked until I have a couple of hours spare so that I can view them with the attention they deserve.

[NARSES2]

Many thanks for those links 

I'll wait for the dark winter nights me thinks   

[seadude]

That lot's going to take an AGE to get through! Thanks for the links Seadude.

I must say I find the plethora of classes at the US nationals very confusing, it's bad enough at the UK Nationals at Telford, but IPMS-USA seem to have a class for every individual entry! 

Yeah, it's getting to be so bad, that staying for a 3 (or more) hours awards show and listening to all the awards requires a lot of stamina.........and caffine to stay awake.
If you think the IPMS is bad with so many categories and classes, then here's a sheet below from a local contest in my area. It seems like almost every year they keep adding a new category which makes the awards presentation at the end of the show that much more longer. 

[PR19_Kit]

Hah! You think that's bad? IPMS UK have all of those classes, and then subdivide them into 'out of the box', modified and scratchbuilt sub classes! 

[buzzbomb]

Looking forward to going through those.


Oh there is an entire thread by itself on how Show Categories "evolve" from simple divisions like Out of the Box and Modified for Aircraft/AFV/Cars.. etc. Been on the organising side of shows for many years and have seen how the interest groups lobby as apparently their particular bit of the hobby should be separated from an extremely similar bit of the hobby, because their subset of the subject "should not be compared against [insert another subset of models of that genre]"

Oh well.. happens everywhere, I am really just glad folks are still stepping up to organise shows where people can actually go to mingle with your peers and see what they are producing compared with just viewing photos on the internet.

[Old Wombat]

I was surprised to see they categorise 1/48 aircraft as "large scale", at the local show (I don't know about Melbourne) they're under the "medium scale" category, with 1/35 & larger being in the "large scale".

[Rick Lowe]

Thanks, I look forward to perusing at leisure... when I get some.

[Rick Lowe]

Wow there are a lot of photos - even in just the aircraft section. I'll have a look at the others when I have a day or so to spare!
Thanks for sharing those, some great models there.

Some models I've not seen built very often, others not at all.

And a Kiwi A-4, too!