Scratchbuilding by Peter Vanvliet

Pennsylvania Railroad FM class 40-foot flat car scratchbuilt out of styrene with board-by-board wood decking. Follow this link to read the full story about how this model was built.

Pennsylvania Railroad GLa class twin-bay hopper scratchbuilt out of styrene. The model was hand-painted. Follow this link to read the full story about how this model was built.

Pennsylvania Railroad H21a class quad-bay hopper scratchbuilt out of styrene. Follow this link to read the full story about how this model was built.

A freelanced structure representing a small factory built from ABS, styrene, and plastic brick-pattern sheet material. Includes a Mike Fyten staircase kit, interior and exterior SMD LEDs, and parts from the "junk" drawer.

This is a freelanced lumber storage shed (modeled after one found on well-known HO-scale modeler Gil Freitag's layout). Includes interior SMD LEDs. Built entirely out of strip wood, except the roof, which was made of out two sheets of styrene (to provide the foundation), and manually corrugated heavy-duty aluminum foil for the sheets.

This was Peter's first-ever effort at anything in S-scale. It is a scratchbuilt model based on the Pennsylvania Railroad section house, PRR plan #59326. It is entirely made out of sheet styrene. Peter was in the process of switching scales from N- to S-scale at the time, so all of the detailing parts are N-scale (chimney, pipes, lights, exterior details, etc.), except for the door and windows, which were S-scale parts. This photo was taken with the model integrated into Peter's layout at the time.