Sunset Models Catalog Club Mid November Update

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Nov 19

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Introducing the Sunset Models Catalog Club

A Premium, Limited-Run Print Catalog + Your Chance at a Golden Ticket

For the first time ever, Sunset Models is offering something our collectors and loyal customers have been requesting for years, a high-quality printed catalog showcasing our upcoming O Scale, HO Scale, and HOn3 releases. And today, we’re excited to officially launch the Sunset Models 2026 Catalog Club: an annual membership designed to elevate your experience and give you something truly special in return.

The 2026 Catalog will still be available online digitally as well and is scheduled to be released in late December. The exact date will be determined and announced in the next week.

What You Get as a Catalog Club Member

Membership includes:

✔ TWO beautifully printed, full-color Sunset Models catalogs, one in the Winter and one in Summer — mailed to you FIRST

Your catalog ships 2 business days before the public online release, giving you a possible sneak peek (if USPS wants to play nice) into new announcements, production updates, and future projects before anyone else sees them.

✔ The chance to receive a Golden Ticket

Randomly inserted into Catalog Club orders is a Golden Ticket — redeemable for ONE FREE Golden Gate Depot O Scale Aluminum Passenger Car. OR four FREE Plastic HO/HOn3 passenger cars. Only Catalog Club members are eligible.

Why Does the Catalog Cost Money?

We want to be transparent:

Producing a high-quality, full-color, collectible print catalog is expensive. Between printing, packaging, and postage, the cost is substantial. Instead of absorbing that cost into model pricing (which would raise prices for everyone), we created the Catalog Club as a way to:

Let the people who want a premium printed catalog support its production
Keep product prices stable for the wider customer base
Revive the legacy of the paper catalog
Add fun value (like the Golden Ticket) that makes the experience memorable

Your membership fee directly supports the creation and mailing of a physical catalog, not a cheap pamphlet, not a folded flyer, but a 50+ page collectors-quality landscape booklet worthy of the models we build TWICE a year.

Why Join?

Because Sunset Models is in a renaissance era, with new projects, new tooling, new partnerships, and some of the most ambitious brass locomotive runs we’ve ever undertaken. The Catalog Club lets you:

Be the first to know what’s coming
Physically hold something beautiful and collectible
Participate in a program that helps keeps the legacy of a model railroading paper catlog
Potentially win something big with the Golden Ticket
This is not a re-occuring payment, each year will have its own offering announced towards the end of the previous year like we are doing now.