Custom Painter / Vendor ?

Jeff Sohn is his name. I believe few months ago he announced that he was taking a break from painting trains for a while. If you are looking for someone who can custom paint trains, there are several other members who will do a good, quality job.

Thank You for the reply.

He hasn't  done work for me yet but I am told that Lucas Liska [post above] is a very good Painter.  Over the past 6 years, before his taking a leave, Jeff Sohn has done several steam engines, a Wreck Derrick and Idler Car for me

There are some guys advertising in that other magazine who do it. If you want to pay for top work there is Harry Heike.

Rob

Jeff had mentioned that he wasn't any new projects...

Anyone else out there?  I'd like some pictures of their work. (Crooked decals are a pet-peeve, so none of those, please.)

Thanks,

Mario

I had a Williams GP38 repainted by a recommended painter "fancy website and all"

and when it was returned to me I felt like Brad Pitt when he opened the box in the movie Seven. " The result was worse than what he saw"

I have my work done by Christine Braden cbraden77@comcast.net

She is an Art Institute graduate, and does nice work.

I noticed the other day that at the bottom of the advertisement for the dealer, Ready-To-Roll, Miami, FL, they offer custom painting by "JIMBO".

I know nothing about this individual, have never had any custom work done by him.  But, I would assume others on The Forum do and, hopefully, will chime in with more specifics.

This thread asks a common question we receive at the store (LHS), most often re HO trains.   I've noted that at least one of our hobby's periodicals publishes from time-to-time a concentration of ads specific to a certain oft-requested service.  The one that comes to mind is 'Layout Design and Construction'.  It has been an excellent resource for us to reference to our customers when asked 'Do you know where/who...?'

I hope this sort of an advertisement compilation might occur someday soon re custom painting/finishing...Engines, cars, structures, different scales, backgrounds, etc.. 

I sometimes wonder if this might be a 'dying' service in this hobby for a variety of reasons??

KD

I think it really is a dying science.  Mostly because the world we live in now, the manufacturers have been doing an ok job providing not only the number of road numebrs per roadname, but more roadnames as well.

Not so much with the first issue of the TMCC-equipped RS-11s, one was all we got... hence the renumbering.  Once this is over, I will tell you what a pain it has been and how I will never be doing something this stupid again.

I do custom painting all the time . I can do just about any paint scheme , I make my own decals to . Just hit my name here and see my posts several examples of work.

my email is in my profile

Bernie

I am going to have some customization done to one of my Lionel scale engines by Matt Forsyth http://mattforsyth.com/ .  He is a bit backed up at the moment, but I think he is well worth the wait.  Really nice guy to speak to as well.  You do really nice work, Bernie! Really, really nice.  

Bernie, what method do you use to make your own decals?

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