The IPMS Vancouver 53nd Annual SCALE MODEL FEST 2025

Name: The IPMS Vancouver 53nd Annual SCALE MODEL FEST 2025
Start: 2025-10-11T09:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-11T16:30:00-07:00
Location: IPMS Vancouver

Schedule

Sat Oct 11 2025 at 09:00 am to 04:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

IPMS Vancouver | Burnaby, BC

IPMS Vancouver’s Scale Model Fest formerly called the "FALL SHOW" is a scale model competition and swap meet event. It takes place on the Saturday of the October Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend.
This year's theme "Birds of Prey" and Korea. 2025 marks the 75 year anniversary of the start of the Korean War on June 25 1950.
The Show is held at the Bonsor Recreation Complex in Burnaby, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
9:00 am to 12:00 pm (noon): exhibitor registration
3:00 - 4:00 pm: Judging - the main show may room is closed to everyone but judges between for final judging and ribbon placement.
Admission: Tickets are available at the door only.
$5 CDN (17 and Older); FREE (16 and Under)
Contest Registration: from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon
$15 CDN (17 and Older}
$5 CDN (16 and Under)
Vendor Tables will be available for booking around the first week of April, please message us to get on to the mailing list to be informed when tables are available for booking.
The event is not limited to IPMS members. Anyone can come and view the show. Additionally, anyone can enter a kit to be judged, the objective is for the best kit in a category to win, not the best kit built by an IPMS member.
· This is the event of the year for modellers in the greater Vancouver area. The show attracts modellers from Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Recent Shows have had around 470 kits entered in dozen’s of trophy or ribbon categories.
· Several other modelling clubs are involved, sponsoring trophies, door prizes, and volunteering to judge or just helping out.
· Most of the hobby shops in the lower mainland contribute to the show, sponsoring trophies or donating door prizes. Several manufacturers and suppliers also contribute.
· There is a vendor room with tables set up in flea market fashion.
· Door prizes, largely donated by hobby shops and suppliers to the industry, are given out during the day.
· At the end of the day, awards and special prizes are handed out and the winning models are photographed for the clubs archives.
Additional Info here:
https://www.ipmsvancouver.ca/fallshow
Download Show Rules from here:
https://www.ipmsvancouver.ca/s/Rules-Show.doc