LGB's new 'high end'* Shay IS 1/20.3 scale after all!

[tac foley]

I did three of their Jackson-Sharpe passenger car conversions for a pal to take back to US with him. At around £300 for the conversion kit, plus £250 for the car, and about fifty hours careful and painstaking effort on my part, they were never going to be a money-spinner for RG.

They looked nice, but..............................Holeeeeeeeeeeeee etc.

Life was too short for me to do any more, and he took them, and three kits, back stateside when he left.

 

[tac foley]

Bump.

I can't help but notice a marked lack of response from our phantom Shay builder and his four incredible models. Anybody heard from him?

 

[PhilP]

He's probably busy building another one?


PhilP.

 

[Chris Vernell]

He's probably busy building another one?


PhilP.

Or he has defected to Heislers

 

[tac foley]

VERY busy - there's about five years' work for a professional model builder right there.

 

[David Price]

There were commercially built models (from Japan and South Korea?) available in this scale sometime ago - several were for sale through the West Side forum group a while back (I didn't download images of them).

And for scratch-built accurate replicas of the West Side (locomotives, rolling stock and buildings) you probably cannot go past Bob Poli's Fn3 layout: