Interurban Era

Custom scale models & model railroad layouts built for you

Rolling Stock: Selected works

I’ve been building scale models professionally for clients since I was 16 years old. Over the years I’ve made some pretty fun things that I never would have otherwise thanks to the specific passions of my clients. Here’s some of my favorite projects over the years from 2006 through today.

A collection of ALTA rolling stock sits in a storage box, 2024. Every single piece has been custom made by me.
BNSF car with custom hand-painted graffiti in HO scale. I was one of the first modelers to do graffiti by hand, completed 2008.
Before & After: The Stock Ma&Pa 4-4-0 poses with its heavily kitbashed counterpart, ALTA 2015, made from the same model. The boiler was cut down, dozens of superdetail parts added, and rewired entirely from the stock model. Built and rebuilt over many years, from 2015-2024, with more improvements to come!
Heavily kitbashed, and featuring a custom scratchbuilt long hood, this CSXT GP35 “Slug” was one of the most incredible kitbashes I’ve ever done. It began as an HO scale Kato GP35, which I completed circa 2014.

Granite Creek & Rattlesnake Gulch 4-4-0 “Lucky” #13 is a Baldwin 8-18C locomotive made in 1/20.3 (Garden) Scale by Bachmann. I completely disassembled it to custom paint it, designed custom decals for it, and then weathered it to match other locomotives of the era. The cab features a museums quality faux-woodgrained mahogany and white oak finish.

An NdeM RS-1 kitbashed into the late variant with correct round radiator fan, modernized stack, and bicycle. It was the subject of an RMC article covering how I built it and a video on my channel. Completed 2024.

Well over 79 hours of work went into meticulously rebuilding a MMI On30 K-27 into an OR&L K-28. Designed & 3D printed many parts for this locomotive, notable a new smokebox, oil bunker, headlights, and a locomotive-specific number plate. I also custom designed the pinstripe decals. Then it got a Tsu-220 sound decoder installed.
This Tidewater Associated Oil Company tank car began life as an entirely different F scale car by AMS. I designed accurate Tidewater decals from scratch and then repainted, lettered, & weathered.
This is the dramatically lit crew of the MASSIVE F scale (1/20.3) K-27 Mikado above. These were 3D printed figures I matched outfits of early color photography of engine crew in the 1940s.
One of my favorite F scale projects was weathering a pair of these AMS stock cars, matching 1960’s Rio Grande photos for my clients’ freelance railroad. Zoom in to appreciate the wood grain I painted!
One of my favorite weathering techniques is doing a realistic chipped and worn wood finish. Zoom in to see all the painted detail I added!
Repainting and superdetailing this little On30 Heisler was a joy. Further town the page you can see the weathering I did to the pilot. The details like the canvas water bag really evoke that narrow gauge vibe.
This car started life as a yellow DRGW reefer and was completely repainted, lettered, and weathered by me. This is an F scale AMS car.
A series of photos I did back in 2008 showing the process of re-creating a real piece of graffiti on an HO scale Genesis 60′ DD boxcar.
An F scale (1/20.3) 2-8-0 poses with my HO scale ALTA 4-4-0. This was a custom painting/lettering/weathering project for a client.
A closeup of #25’s tender, showing off the weathered wood coal extension boards and worn tender deck.
A trio of custom diesel projects pose on my scratchbuilt causeway. A Santa Fe F7A, an Alta FT, and an NdeM RS-1.
From 2008-2014 I offered custom built ALCO/GE-IR boxcab locomotives. I used (and improved) the original MDC shell, and then used a 3D printed frame and cast metal truck sideframes. Some were built on Bachmann 70 tonner chassis, others had NWSL Stanton drives.
A BLMA HO scale reefer painted up with graffiti that was hand painted using acrylic paint and India ink.
One of my own ALTA RSD-5’s, custom painted, decaled, and weathered matching 1967 photos of real RSD-5’s. Began as a C&NW unit from Atlas.
N scale Sacramento Northern F3, custom painted, decaled, and weathered to match prototype photos. Began as an undec Kato F3.
More hand-painted graffiti done my me, matching a real Railbox painted up with the “SPACE” moniker. Done w/ acrylic paint & ink.
An HO scale bulkhead flat, with heavily dented ends and weathered matching a prototype photo of the exact type of car.
On30 Bachmann Heisler I painted, weathered, and designed custom decals for. The number plate is a PSC brass part.
Heavily kitbashed Bachmann HO scale 4-4-0 into Yosemite 22. 3D printed cab, copious amounts of brass detail parts & custom decals.