diff --git a/lib/model-builder.js b/lib/model-builder.js
index 4a8aaee4..3de4a64a 100644
--- a/lib/model-builder.js
+++ b/lib/model-builder.js
@@ -256,8 +256,18 @@ ModelBuilder.prototype.define = function defineClass(className, properties, sett
   ModelClass.setter = {};
 
   for (var p in properties) {
-    // Remove properties that reverted by the subclass
-    if (properties[p] === null || properties[p] === false) {
+    // e.g excludePropertyList = ['id'] -  base properties listed in excludePropertyList will be excluded from the model.
+    // excludeBaseProperties is introduced in SOAP model generation only for now and below logic
+    // handles excludeBaseProperties. Generated SOAP model has base as 'Model' which means 'id' property gets added
+    // automatically and 'id' property shouldn't be there for SOAP models. idInjection = false will not work
+    // for SOAP generator case, since base 'Model' has already id property. 'id: false' at the property level will not
+    // work either for SOAP generator case since generators use ModelDefinition.create to create property in the model
+    // dynamically, that execution path has strict validation where doesn't accept 'id: false' in a property.
+    // See https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-workspace/issues/486 for some more details.
+    var excludePropertyList = settings['excludeBaseProperties'];
+    // Remove properties that reverted by the subclass of the property from excludePropertyList
+    if (properties[p] === null || properties[p] === false ||
+      (excludePropertyList != null && excludePropertyList.indexOf(p) != -1)) {
       // Hide the base property
       delete properties[p];
     }
diff --git a/test/exclude-base-props.test.js b/test/exclude-base-props.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..14064093
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/exclude-base-props.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+// Copyright IBM Corp. 2013,2016. All Rights Reserved.
+// Node module: loopback-datasource-juggler
+// This file is licensed under the MIT License.
+// License text available at https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
+
+// This test written in mocha+should.js
+'use strict';
+var should = require('./init.js');
+var assert = require('assert');
+
+var jdb = require('../');
+var ModelBuilder = jdb.ModelBuilder;
+
+describe('exclude properties ', function() {
+  it('from base model', function(done) {
+    var ds = new ModelBuilder();
+    // create a base model User which has name and password properties. id property gets
+    // internally created for the User Model
+    var User = ds.define('User', {name: String, password: String});
+    var properties = User.definition.properties;
+    // User should have id, name & password properties
+    assert(('id' in properties)  && ('password' in properties) && ('name' in properties),
+      'User should have id, name & password properties');
+    // Create sub model Customer with vip as property. id property gets automatically created here as well.
+    // Customer will inherit name, password and id from base User model.
+    // With excludeBaseProperties, 'password' and 'id' gets excluded from base User model
+    // With idInjection: false - id property of sub Model Customer gets excluded. At the end
+    // User will have these 2 properties: name (inherited from User model) and vip (from customer Model).
+    var Customer = User.extend('Customer', {vip: {type: String}},
+      {idInjection: false, excludeBaseProperties: ['password', 'id']});
+    // Customer should have these properties: name(from UserModel) & vip
+    properties = Customer.definition.properties;
+    assert(('name' in properties) && ('vip' in properties),
+      'Customer should have name and vip properties');
+    // id or password properties should not be found in the properties list
+    assert(!(('id' in properties) || ('password' in properties)),
+      'Customer should not have id or password properties');
+    done();
+  });
+});