His 25-ft-long replica of the ocean liner “Queen Mary” took over 3 years to build with approx. 814,000 toothpicks.  16-ft-long British liner “Lusitania” used over 193,000 toothpicks and is on display at the American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore.  

Wayne lives on a small apartment in Chicago, so small that the boats he has built cannot fit in it anymore.  He has designed them to be reassembled in segments, so that he can move them to public venues.  He carefully researches the boats’ blueprints, studies photographs, to make them as accurate as possible. His current schooner "Cutty Sark" has to be on a lean, supported by toothpick boxes, as the ceilings aren’t tall enough.