April 1969 Archive Feature

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Inside the April 1969 Seattle Times feature

This six-page Seattle Times Sunday Pictorial feature, published April 13, 1969, introduces the International Plastic Modelers Society's Seattle chapter and its emphasis on historically accurate scale models. Lois M. Fisk describes the chapter as the first American IPMS branch, follows members researching markings and construction details, and visits a meeting at Seattle's Museum of Science and Industry.

Photographs by Al Fisk, Bob Spring, and Ira Spring show club members and their work, including a Japanese Zero, World War I bombers, a Finnish Air Force collection, a Mistel combination, an F-105D, a B-25, a Boeing P-26, Japanese aircraft, and converted military miniatures. John Greer, Bill Weaver, Jim Schubert, Norm Filer, Jerry Nilles, and John Neiswanger appear in a valuable early portrait of the chapter and the standards its modelers were developing.