As a teenager, he built model car hot rods and made modifications to the kits — suicide doors before those were available on kits, custom upholstered seats and consoles — anything to make his model cars one-of-a-kind.

Over the years, Wayne forgot about his love of model cars and put his meticulous talent to build and craft things to work in a high-end custom workroom where movie-set designers would bring their unique designs to him knowing he could find a way to bring their ideas to reality.