The Isle of Wight Model Engineering Society is a long-established club (founded 1934) for those residents of this part of Britain whose main interests lie in making and operating working models.

The range of modelmaking interests in the Society is broad, ranging from large scale locomotives (road and rail) powered by steam or electricity, to quite small scale boats and road vehicles, working and static. Members also make workshop equipment, stationary engines and clocks.

The Society holds formal meetings on a monthly basis. The form of these meetings is usually to contain a feature or theme for the evening - a film or video show, a talk from a outside speaker on some relevant subject or a practical demonstration of modelmaking. All of these promote lively discussion and well attended meetings. The "Bits and Pieces" evenings, where members display some of their own successful projects or rank disasters, are regularly the most appreciated and best attended. As an occasional alternative in summer, a family orientated evening meeting is substituted, with barbecue facilities and day/night running on railways and pond to entertain the younger family members