As I mentioned earlier, most of my modelling is in On30. So here is one of my many pojects in that scale and gauge.

Two Shay! Part 1:

As my On30 layout is a logging layout, I naturally have a shay on my line, infact I have two (hence the title). One of these was a second hand model with DCC sound and the other is just DCC fitted.

One of my purchases from yesterdays visit to the Warley show was a Backwoods Miniatures dress up Kit for the Bachmann Shay. The plan is to share the parts between the two shays.

Here is how the shays looked before I started:

Number 3 is the second hand shay with sound and number 1 is DCC fitted.

As number 3 was second hand, it was missing a few parts here and there; one of these was the top part of the stack/funnel making it way to short.

No worry as the dress up kit included 3 stacks!

I thought this wood burner stack would be the best as they were common on logging engines, and that it looks pretty good too.

As per instructions, 2mm of the origional stack was cut off the bottom to glue the new stack onto it. The screw it was attached with was also glued in place so the stack can be twisted into the smokebox.

Its starting to look more like a 'backwoods' shay already!

Until next time,

Max