Custom Models

CUSTOM MODELS

Custom Models We build custom one-of-a-kind models and dioramas to our customers specifiactions. We specialize in models of historic structures, heavy industry, and military subjects. If you have a project that you might want to have us build, please send us a note. Custom models are hand built by us in our workshop. The cost and schedule are dependent on the project. Most projects involve research, computer drafting time, materials, assembly and shipping. We bill by the hour for those services, plus laser cutting time. We have done projects ranging from one hundred to several thousand dollars.

Go to our contact page to send us a note about your project idea.

EXAMPLES OF SOME OF THE MODELS WE HAVE BUILT

Alkem Scale Models

Fine scale kits for model railroaders

What is Alkem Scale Models?

Alkem Scale Models is a small kit design and manufacturing company specializing in fine scale, highly-detailed and prototypically-basedkits and detail parts for model railroaders and other hobbyists. Our kits use computer aided design and usually include photoetched brass and or laser cut wood, acrylic and bristol board parts. They are designed and engineered for ease of assembly and scale accuracy. Our metal parts are etched to aerospace-medical quality by an ISO 9001 registered firm. We also have precision casting and electronic fabricators in our network of subcontractors.

It is really a misnomer to call them craftsman kits, as most of the hard work of measuring and cutting is accurately done by the laser or etching process. Our kits do not include big piles of strip wood. Instead, almost all of our parts are cut to size, ready to be glued, sanded and finished. For example our coal dock kits use precision cut acrylic parts. All the builder has to do is glue the parts together, and in some caces, fill in seam lines.

415 E Alexandria Ave, Alexandria, VA, 22310