Paul Payne

Great collection, and even better paint! When you're done with yours would you paint some of mine?!?!?!.....

Looking better and better! If it isn't done for NNL's, put it on the primer projects table!

You nailed it!

Ah, the debates rage on! I don't think any other car has generated as much controversy regarding how many were actually made, the various bodies on which chassis, etc., etc., etc.! Le Patron's T46 was a scaled down Royale. After aquiring 2 Miller Indy racing cars, Bugatti began constructing DOHC engines. The T50 was essentially a T46 with a DOHC top end and supercharger (pardon- compresseur). Now- if the Royale had been able to be continued in production, wouldn't it be logical that the engine would have evolved in the same manner? Imagine- 774 cubic inches, dual overhead cams, and supercharged! Somebody has just got to build this, and let's face it, it would be somewhat cheaper in model form...... I'm thinking a body similar to the Esders roadster, or possibly a streamlined boat tail 2 passenger coupe. Let's see- Lindberd/Pyro Auburn boat tail rear body, 1940 Ford sedan body pie-cut and blended into the boat tail, veed windshield, pontoon fenders............ Seriously, your build is great- workmanship excellent, paint excellent, thought and research excellent- I am looking forward to seeing all your other Royale kits being built- And you can just dream about how much they would be worth in real life! Here are a couple pix of the Lindberg Royale I built a few years back:

Gray, This project is looking great! I love the Cosworth intake manifold- modify a part into something entirely different! What kit is your windshield frame from? Do you have pix of your DOHC Deuce, or a thread I can pick up somewhere else? I love DOHC engines..... Here's a tip for cutting angles on tubing- for 4 stacks, cut two pieces of tubing longer than the combined finished length. Now, near the center, make your angled cut, resulting in 2 tubes with the same angle at the top. Now comes the tricky part- repeat the angle cut on the second piece of tubing! After that, just trim them all to the final length. If you get a minute, drop in on my double deuce project in this forum- I should be updating it soon.....

I was 6 years old, in 1959. It was the AMT 3-in-1 boat kit which was re-issued around 1996, and of course I bought one! It will get built with a cedar cigar wrapper overlay on the hull and deck, using the dual cockpit runabout version which is how I first built it. I might add an Etzel's Offenhauser. This engine was derived from a marine engine Harry Miller designed in the early 20's. The original boat is long gone, but I still have the trailer, the only model that has survived from my early years.

Dirk, I'm on my home computer now and your pix came up fine. Nice work!

Thanks, Lyle, I appreciate!

John, I love it! How about some pix with it next to the maroon deuce you built awhile ago? That would be too cool! You use my favorite colors- maroon and blue!

I got the dreaded red x! Can you repost the pix? Thanx!

I love it! It's so hot it's cool, so cool it's hot! The wood grain is the most realistic I have ever seen! By the way, which re-release of the '50 ford p.u. had the corrected Ardun heads? Iwouldn't want to get the wrong kit....

My wife Betsy and I live in a 3 bedroom house. One extra bedroom is the guest room, the other is my model building and display room. My wife is a car nut, also her family. She scrubbed off her finger prints when young by sanding the spokes on a 1927 Chevy touring car, now in a collection in Italy. She doesn't mind at all if I display models around the house, but mostly they are in my studio. She has a jewelry making business and uses the front sun room for her studio, as well as the family room coffee table. Betsy also knits and the yarn is stowed in a copper boiler as well as several bags in the family room. She also sews and works with stained glass. After all this, you can see why she insisted I have my own hobby room to myself!

The last few years I have been concentrating on hot rod projects. Current is my double deuce project which has been posted here. A couple nights ago I put together some parts for a re-build of Monogram's Black Widow, which will be next.

I display them in clear styrene storage boxes (and dust STILL gets inside!) on shelves in my model room. Active projects live on my workbench until finished. Some have lived there for years......

I am a foundry tooling engineer at Urick Foundry in Erie, PA. We make high quality ductile iron industrial castings for many different customers, including our parent company, Ridge Tool Co. I design master patterns on SolidEdge, cut them on a cnc machine, provide gating layouts for our pattern shop, and begin the quoting process by creating a preliminary layout including the number of castings on the pattern plate, and basic (uncalculated) gating.

sweet!!!!!

Bill, glad to see you working on this one again! It's been a favorite of mine since you first posted pix. I like lakesters and yours with the Offy (also a favorite) is great! I think your scratchbuilding is top notch and I am really looking forward to this one being finished!

Thanks, Biscuitbuilder, can you include pix? Also thanks, Frank, ditto from me!

Somewhere in a forum there was a reply (I think from Biscuitbuilder) about him modifying the Revell 1932 Ford chassis back to stock. I responded begging him to produce it in resin. Can't find the thread or the responses to save my life! Any help appreciated!

You can get a deuce lower but the sparks are annoying.......

Biscuitbuilder, please shoot some resin copies of that stock frame! Some of us would love a stock Deuce frame as a start point, instead of the modified kit chassis, also how about a stock rear spring and front axle?

Here's some photos of the metal bodied version- I added a driving light and outside rear view mirror, used the racing windscreens, and left off the bumpers. The car is right on in scale- these were small cars, as were the D Jag and XK-SS. I only wish they had included wire wheels as a build option- I haven't found any that fit the tires.

Do you remember the Monogram metal body series? One was a 1953 Corvette- with a metal body. Now let's just lead poor Jairus back to his workbench and let him continue doing great things for our hobby........

Yep, that's the one!

I think everyone can keep adding models as they think of them- here's a few more: Larry Boothe's 1932 Ford coupe and 1961 Thunderbird custom- I saw the Deuce at NNL East a few years back when Larry had it on the primer projects table. He was there at the time and I had a chance to talk with him about it and he very generously held parts for me to photograph and pointed out various details- a very modest and super guy who was a joy to share time with! I remember a blue and white 1932 or 1934 Ford coupe with an amazing number of working features- super miniature engineering- I just don't remember the builder's name- sorry! Pryor Passorino created a number of super detailed models, but I haven't seen anything of his in several years- hope he is still building....