Companion Clubs

Current Companion Clubs of the ACT Scale Modellers’ Society:

South Australia Plastic Modellers’ Association

International Plastic Modellers’ Society Queensland

Illawarra Plastic Modellers’ Association

International Plastic Modellers’ Society Ottawa

International Plastic Modellers’ Society Farnborough

Companion Club memorandum of understanding:

A Companion Club is a form of informal social agreement between two or more geographically distant model societies /clubs/associations for the sole purpose of promoting, sharing and supporting the hobby of scale modelling in our local areas. With the shared goal of: “The hobby is stronger together.”

This is in no way the formalising of any formal modelling body. This initiative is to recognise informal assistance and friendship that has been happening for some years.

The sole reason for this is to formalise a friendship between two model societies/clubs/associations to provide a useful forum and to exchange ideas on how we both operate our societies/clubs/associations and or our major annual events.

In addition to this, we will promote each other’s events through our social media pages and websites, and encourage people when visiting each location to drop in and visit each other’s meetings and events. It will also maintain a formal avenue of communication between the two Companion Clubs that will endeavour to outlast current and ongoing committee members.

Concept/Objectives:

• Posting flyers for each other's events on our websites and social media pages

•  Advertising our sister club status on our websites and social media pages

• Maintaining emails for committee members annually

• Sponsoring a category at each other’s major annual event

• Conducting online social activities, such as group builds/blitz builds

• Catching up as required for online catch-up meetings to discuss ideas, trends and or obstacles

Links to the ACT Scale Modellers’ Society's current Companion Clubs can be seen below:

South Australia Plastic Modellers’ Association – www.sapma.com.au

International Plastic Modellers’ Society Queensland – www.ipmsqld.org.au

Illawarra Plastic Modellers’ Association – www.ipmamodels.net

International Plastic Modellers’ Society Ottawa - www.ipmsottawa.com

International Plastic Modellers’ Society Farnborough - www.ipms-farnborough.co.uk