Huntsville Plastic Modelers Society (HPMS) is one of the Southeast’s longstanding scale-modeling clubs and the IPMS/USA chapter representing Huntsville, Alabama and the surrounding Rocket City region. For nearly five decades, the club has brought modelers together to share their work, exchange techniques and ideas, encourage builders of all experience levels, and celebrate virtually every corner of the hobby, from aircraft, armor, automobiles, ships, figures, dioramas, and military subjects to science fiction, fantasy, spacecraft, and everything in between. In 2025, HPMS reached an exciting new milestone when its proposal was unanimously approved to host the 2027 IPMS/USA National Convention, bringing the biggest annual gathering in American IPMS scale modeling to Huntsville. The 2027 IPMS/USA National Convention will take place July 14–17, 2027 at Huntsville’s Von Braun Center, welcoming modelers from across the United States and around the world for four days of incredible models, competition, vendors, seminars, workshops, tours, fellowship, and everything that makes the IPMS Nationals one of the hobby’s must-attend events. Before the modeling world heads to the Rocket City in July, however, IPMS Huntsville is making a special stop at ModelCon EagleQuest! Members of the Huntsville club will be at the show specifically to promote the upcoming 2027 IPMS/USA National Convention, answer questions, share information about their plans, and help EagleQuest attendees start making their own plans for Huntsville. HPMS has already begun its countdown to the Nationals and has been offering modelers previews of what they have planned for 2027. Be sure to stop by their table at ModelCon EagleQuest, meet the people who will be welcoming the modeling community to Huntsville just a few months later, learn more about the convention, and find out what you can look forward to when the IPMS/USA National Convention comes to the Rocket City in July 2027.