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

 

[Chris B]

Managing to get a little bench time this morning between Dr and Physio appointments. 
After cleaning the grille surround up I noted that the photo etched grille I have is for the Revell 32 and the early Monogram grilles are a little different dimension wise. I pulled out a Revell model I have and confirmed that the grille fits nicely.
rather than use the Revell grille surround I decided to widen the Monogram one to suit.

First of I cut the grille shell in half perfectly in the middle at the top and inserted a piece of styrene sheet in the split making sure that the surround was flat on the mat and that the styrene also sat flat on the mat. This way the surround remained square, I glued this in with Tamyia thin cement.

 Once it was dry I trimmed back the styrene to a closer shape and checked the Grille fit, it looked good so I continued on and cut the bottom of the surround and inserted and glued a a piece of styrene sheet into the bottom of the surround

 

 

[Chris B]

I found a suitable radiator in my parts box originally from an old release Monogram 53 Chev. It was mounded complete with Rad core support and horns, I cut the core support and horns away from the radiator and through them back in the parts box as those horns could come in handy at a latter date. 

It was too wide so i cut the width down a little and made a frame from styrene so that I could slide two pieces of the photo etch radiator face into it spaced apart with a suitable wide strips of styrene. A little more detailing, adding the inlet and outlets to the top and bottom tanks and as well as the filler neck and radiator cap. I will also add some thin strips of styrene around the bottom of the top tank and top of the bottom tank to mimic the flanges that the tanks are soldered into. I may also reshape the top tank a little to get ride of the bump where the original top rad hose fitting would attach.

The grille surround is now the correct dimensions for the grille to fit neatly I will add the crank tube to the apron and some styrene tubes glued to the rear of the apron that will correspond with some wire pins glue to the front of the chassis cross member so as to mount the grille and surround to the chassis I'm going to do something similar with pins glued into the bottom of the radiator bottom tank that will slide into holes drilled into the top of the same cross member.

 

[David G.]

Nice work on the radiator Chris.

David G.

[Chris B]

11 hours ago, David G. said:

Nice work on the radiator Chris.

David G.

Thanks David

[Chris B]

Radiator a lot closer now Just the filler neck and radiator cap to fit now. If glued a pin to the bottom of the radiator to locate it in the correct place. 
That big Hemi is a bit of a squeeze between the cowl and radiator but it fits

 

[David G.]

It looks good. Do you have plans for a cooling fan?

David G. 

[Chris B]

4 hours ago, David G. said:

It looks good. Do you have plans for a cooling fan?

David G. 

I have been thinking about it there is not enough room behind the radiator although after this photo was taken i trial fitted the grille suround and found that I need to move the radiator forward as it is too far away from the surround I haven't yet found a suitable electric fan I did think that I could fit a blow through fan in front of the radiator behind the grille if I can find something to fit

[Chris B]

Pretty happy with how the radiator came out, what a difference a bit of paint makes

Just to change the subject a bit 52 years ago I built what has always been my favorite model Tom Daniels Quicksilver. At some stage in that 52 years the model disappeared off the face of the earth, I have parts of it in my parts stash and I have always hoped that someday I would stumble across it packed away in a box that I haven't opened in a long time. I recently found a built Monogram 32 Ford roaster that I built as a teenager packed away in a box that I hadn't opened since I moved into this house 25 years ago.
I have been searching the internet for at least 20 years in the hope I would find one for sale and when recently putting the question out there on a Facebook model forum I belong to some had a slightly tired built up model that they were willing to part with 

I have big plans to restore this model in the near future with a little bit of a modern twist but staying true to the original model

[Dtimmerman89]

On 12/7/2025 at 12:04 PM, Chris B said:

I have been thinking about it there is not enough room behind the radiator although after this photo was taken i trial fitted the grille suround and found that I need to move the radiator forward as it is too far away from the surround I haven't yet found a suitable electric fan I did think that I could fit a blow through fan in front of the radiator behind the grille if I can find something to fit

I have been 3d printing fans and they look spectacular behind the mesh. Super fine details like that really pop on an already highly detailed kit like the one you've currently got going. I could refer you to an online shop for some but they're all based in the US and I am certain shipping prices would be out of the question. 

[Chris B]

1 hour ago, Dtimmerman89 said:

I have been 3d printing fans and they look spectacular behind the mesh. Super fine details like that really pop on an already highly detailed kit like the one you've currently got going. I could refer you to an online shop for some but they're all based in the US and I am certain shipping prices would be out of the question. 

That would be great I do buy a lot already from the states and accept that shipping is gona cosr

[Dtimmerman89]

I have a file for this exact print that you can purchase from Matt @

https://www.mcvproducts.com/product-page/2pcs-radiator-electric-fan

The resolution and quality is top notch. I am using a pair of these on my Moebius/ Model King 66 F100 build. 

[Dtimmerman89]

Matt makes great stuff with very reasonable prices, you may as well load up on stock since you're paying for shipping. 

[Kanada Kustoms]

Great looking build!

[Chris B]

8 hours ago, Dtimmerman89 said:

Matt makes great stuff with very reasonable prices, you may as well load up on stock since you're paying for shipping. 

I gave just realized that I am aware of him I watch a lot of YouTube model car channels and one of the ones I watch pushes him in every video So I went and checked his website out

[Chris B]

5 hours ago, Kanada Kustoms said:

Great looking build!

Thankyou 

[Dtimmerman89]

20 minutes ago, Chris B said:

I gave just realized that I am aware of him I watch a lot of YouTube model car channels and one of the ones I watch pushes him in every video So I went and checked his website out

Matt has some awesome stuff available.

There's some great talent on yt. I'd love to have my own channel but money and time to dedicate to it is extremely lacking atm.

[Chris B]

1 hour ago, Dtimmerman89 said:

Matt has some awesome stuff available.

There's some great talent on yt. I'd love to have my own channel but money and time to dedicate to it is extremely lacking atm.

I've often thought about a YouTube channel aswell but I don't have the time I've found some great ones though