AMT 1932 Ford Phaeton

[David G.]

I'm glad to know that your surgery went well Chris. It must be nice being back at the bench.

Driveshafts I usually paint for a steel or black rusty iron color. But that depends on what you want your build to look like.

Didn't some of the cars of that era use some kind of leather torque tube as a driveshaft?

David G.

[Chris B]

19 hours ago, David G. said:

I'm glad to know that your surgery went well Chris. It must be nice being back at the bench.

Driveshafts I usually paint for a steel or black rusty iron color. But that depends on what you want your build to look like.

Didn't some of the cars of that era use some kind of leather torque tube as a driveshaft?

David G.

Thanks David

Yes some early vehicle did have leather boots on the driveshaft. I originally planed on painting the driveshaft tube (Bear in mind it is only a tube not the driveshaft as the driveshaft runs inside the external tube which acts as a locating device and is attached to the end of the gearbox with a ball and socket arrangement) aluminum color and then I saw a full sized vehicle with a similar diff arrangement and the nugget was the only aluminum part, Now I'm not sure how I want it to look.

[Chris B]

On 11/7/2025 at 2:35 AM, oldnslow said:

Good to hear your surgery went well . Now , back to business on the 32 😎 , looking good .

 

On 11/6/2025 at 9:28 PM, Kanada Kustoms said:

Cool build… Lots of great details!

Thanks Guys

[Chris B]

Well while I've been of work recovering I ordered a few goodies for this and another model namely a photo etched radiator face and I already had a grille put aside.

The radiator is molded as part of the grille surround on this kit so I got out the scriber and scribed around the inside of the grille shell.

And sanded down the back until I reached the scribe

With a little bit of smoothing and some more material removed from the top back to more simulate a better surround thickness this should be good