Association of Professional Model Makers (APMM)

12/21/2025

The APMM has ceased operations as of this month. The website was taken down a couple weeks ago. Thank you for your involvement and interest. Good luck to all the model makers out there!

05/02/2025

You have a cool tool or miracle material or clever hack you use to make models, don't you. We want to know about it/them! Post it here, or email it to [email protected]. We need the name and where to get it. A picture is helpful. If you hacked it, or use it for something other than its usual purpose, please explain.

All these amazing time/effort savers will be presented at our conference in Denver AND we'll share then on our site if you can't make it. Show us what you got! Thanks!!

04/07/2025

11/27/2024

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122143310546327232&set=a.122109143576327232

The 1939 New York World's Fair featured the iconic General Motors "Futurama" pavilion. Designed by Norman Bel Geddes, this exhibit presented a vision of a future metropolis with sleek skyscrapers and automated highways. The detailed scale model captivated millions, showcasing forward-thinking concepts in urban planning and transportation.
Photographer unknown, 1939

10/22/2024

As you almost effortlessly slip into your robot or superhero armor costume this Halloween, take a moment to think about the hard-working actors and stunt people who had to spend hours suiting up, endure 8+ hours of heat and near-immobility, and often harmful or at least painful falls for months on end whil shooting a movie. More on the struggle here: https://apmm.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=5&club_id=22501&item_id=106782&

10/01/2024

Our meet-up with a video on an alternative form of spray painting is up! If you want to spray paint, but don't have a paint gun, a compressor, or a paint booth check it out!

APMM member Jennifer Shorb demonstrates the Apollo Sprayers portable and tankless low-pressure painting system and shows us why it's a versatile and capable ...

09/16/2024

Missed the Making a Model Shop Meetup!? Head over to www.Youtube.com/ to see the replay which just went live!!

07/27/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogu5s6-8w1c&t=4s
Hey spray painters! Would you like to be able to apply any kind of paint without overspray, blowback, a compressor or a paint booth? APMM member Jen Shorb got her hands on an Apollo Sprayers HVLP System and gave us a demo. Watch her paint the safe-for-work and non-copyrighted parts of Dr. Manhattan's anatomy. See how the very low nozzle air flow makes painting a breeze!

Join Jen Shorb of Protek Models, LLC, as she presents a comprehensive guide to setting up and using Apollo Sprayers HVLP painting equipment. Filmed for the A...

07/10/2024

Experimenting today. Electroforming copper over a 3D printed part, sprayed with conductive graphite coating. Copper is "growing" from the copper handling wire out across the surface, very slowly. What you see is after an hour in the bath. Supposedly the copper shell can be grown up to 1mm thick over the course of 12 hours or so. Anyone else had cause to electroform metal onto printed parts for model projects in the past?

06/07/2024

APMM model makers create models from the scratchest of scratch. Built from blocks of plastic, metal and wood stock, which are cut using table saws and CNC machines, primed and painted like a car with spray guns, etc. But many of us got our start assembling kits. Where will the future professional model makers come from???

06/03/2024

Model Maker Meetup Monday!

Head over to our YouTube channel to watch an inspiring and informative Model Maker Meetup with Nell Corkin as she talks about her career as a fine scale miniaturist! The meetup was recorded on December 7th, 2022.

For this meetup, we speak with Nell Corkin, a fine-scale miniaturist who began her career building models and effects in Hollywood, eventually choosing to le...

05/30/2024

Some model makers make stuff and then blow it up in the parking lot, some make stuff and blow it up on their workstations. What kind of model maker would you rather be? CGI is definitely getting used more and more, but practical effects are making a comeback!
https://collider.com/movies-practical-effects-good/