Ultra Scale

Ultra Scale 1/4” O Scale Buildings/ Freight Car Kits & Detail Parts

08/31/2025

Northern Pacific Round Roof Re**er and AT&SF B-56 Boxcar in production along with a couple other cars.

02/14/2025

Just about getting the casting area/ shop ready for production. I will be casting by the weekend. I have a 7’ table rubber mold area in my kitchen set up as well. (temperature controlled for curing etc.) The large cabinet (550 #’s) to the left of the autoclaves is a converted high pressure (25-35 psi) large production kitchen steamer. These are obsolete now as they were high energy consumers and more than a bit dangerous in the hands of a chef pushing the pace! Their huge watertight door style cabinet doors could be spun out just as the pressure bar valves were released and they could spew steam out all the door sides, scalding whoever was near. I personally loved using them as they were extremely fast and you could speed up production greatly. I’ll use them the same way but with compressed air and they are large enough to accommodate the buildings as well.

Our friends at PBL have completed a large run of injection molded parts for the kits. They are available now on hangmanc...

01/30/2025

Our friends at PBL have completed a large run of injection molded parts for the kits. They are available now on [email protected] . The initial car kits and building kits are also in process finally !! I will drop more as soon as I have them a bit closer as I will only sell items once complete, no waiting on items !!! They won’t be listed until they are ready to ship.

10/28/2024

Good to see Ultra Scale 2.0 detail parts on projects that others are working on. This is one of a pair of scratch built livestock cars that Ben Popper is building.

08/04/2024

Kit #602 NP 28000 Series War Emergency Boxcar/ Master Patterns by Gene Diemling. This will be released after the ART Re**er and Flatcar . I’ve decided to do limited runs of 50 after speaking to othe manufacturers as they have provided some insight on their production runs.

07/01/2024

This ART Re**er will be the 1st release of Ultra Scale 2.0 Line along with the 50 ton AAR 53’6” War Emergency Flatcar (no load). Cast from Original Master Patterns by Pat Duffin and Gene Deimling. Late September/ early October production. I’m still chasing a few components to complete the pre- production. These will limited runs of 50 cars each to gauge demand on the future release of the # of kits produced. I will not list for sale until cars are 100% ready to ship. No advanced orders or waiting for production. Price tbd. These will be released as the originals were with no trucks or couplers as there are many choices between O scale/P48. The instruction manuals will be reworked with step by step color images for ease of construction for all skill sets of modelers. A few Building kits will follow in winter of 24/25.

03/01/2024

Summer of 2024 / kits will slowly start to roll back out . It will take me sometime as these all need new molds and pilot builds. I’m fortunate to be able to re-release these amazing models that so many amazing modeler’s contributed to Mikes O’Connell’s original Ultra Scale Line of kits.

12/04/2023

Looking forward to traveling , what shows would be the best ones to attend to bring Ultra Scale out in person a few times a year? We plan on attending the NNGC as long as it’s active (Sept) any other ideas ? Thanks Jess

1. March Meet Chicago
2. NNGC Sept
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08/21/2023

A couple new products added to the Ultra Scale detail parts . Some 8 rung ladders and some 7/ 6 rung brass ladders in limited quantities, basically sell until out on the available brass ladders.

08/16/2023

Part of my trip last week was to follow up on a few items with Mike O’Connell to complete the transfer of items from the Ultra Scale Line . I also made sure I spent some time studying Mike P48 layout and the production methods he’s employed to build such a large layout. It’s just amazing and the cast resin roadbed is a game changer in building handlaid track when over 1,100 ft of mainline alone is involved. Mike craftsmanship is absolutely amazing.

08/10/2023

Spent the day with Mike O’Connell to get a few items I didn’t have room for on my last trip,and to pick his brain on a few things. One of the tasks was getting images of the remaining cars that needed to be photographed that are all Pilot builds of the Ultra Scale kits. Stunning models and weathered just right.

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