Jim/James Lucas where are you now?

[ACL1504]

Some 18-20 years ago a Jim/James Lucas sold scratch built structures on Ebay. I never won one as the prices really went high as you will believe when I post a few photos.

When I built one of the Boiler Makers kits for Jimmy D., he also had a Jim Lucas build one. I don't know if this is the same Lucas or not.

One build went on Jimmy's Pennsy Middle Division. I was happy to see Jimmy used my build of Boiler Makers on his layout. The one Mr. Lucas built traveled with Jimmy for a year or so to the trade shows.

Anyway, I was curious if anyone has any of Mr. Lucas' structures or knows if he is still building.

Here are several photos of Mr. Lucas' scratch built Earl's Auto.

I copied the photos from the Ebay sales auction.

[ACL1504]

More in a few.

[ACL1504]

More to follow.

[ACL1504]

[ACL1504]

And, the final three of Earl's Auto.

[tom.boyd.125]

Tom,
I remember that modeler. Never purchased any of his builds but after checking one of my backup drives this morning, may have found photos of some of his past Ebay offerings. Let me post a few photos that was saved on my b/u drive as a future modeling reference and tell me if you think this is his work. Bid on his auctions too, but they all went for big bucks years ago, and never won one.  May have taken dozens of photos of his auctions because his builds were outstanding.
Tom

[ACL1504]

Tom,

Thanks for checking in. The top photo may be one of his but I'd need to see the entire structure or at least a full frontal look.  He really weathered the walls much more than the walls in the top photo. This next structure has less weathered walls than normal for his work.

Here is his Wilson's Milk structure.



Tom

[ACL1504]

How about this structure. What came first the chicken or the egg?

Lucas' Hotel Davenport with Finnigan's Bar.





Or George Sellios' Hotel Darby with Callahan's Bar?

[S&S RR]

Looks like some nice builds.  I wonder what happened to him.

[Zephyrus52246]

Impressive work.


Jeff

[ACL1504]

Looks like some nice builds.  I wonder what happened to him.

John,

Jim was/maybe still is a superior modeler. I have other photos of his work I'll be sharing over the next few weeks.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Impressive work.


Jeff

Jeff,

Thanks for stopping by. Wait 'til you see his others. Very impressive to say the least.

Tom

[tom.boyd.125]

 Tom (ACL),
  Figured out how to identify the work of the mystery structure builder. All of the photos that were ever posted on Ebay by him have a underscore 12 in the file name. Have over 100 different photo builds saved on my b/u drive. Check these photos out , and look at the file names, as I did not change the file name years ago when the photos were saved. The photos I posted yesterday are all his work. After you are done posting all the photos you have to show, I will check my photos to see if anything is missing. Also did not have a photo of Wilson's Milk found on my b/u drive, so might have missed some of his Ebay listings. Mike Engler just posted a photo with a link of a Master Creations build by him from several years ago in this thread too.
Thanks !
Tom

[Mike Engler]

http://modelersforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1973.0;attach=21675;image


I would say there is a good chance "Earl's Auto" and "Roscoe's" were built by the same modeler based on the siding treatment and the style of shingling in both.



Very accomplished structure builder.

[Mike Engler]

You guys have been looking for Mr. Lucas for a long time:



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