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Are we talking about paint schemes now? I say flat black with some nice fancy red accents... maybe flames, can't have enough flames in the shop... PAINTED FLAMES, NOT REAL ONES

Hang in there, micky. Those who favor burgundy are gaining on the mundane gray and black crowd.

mickyd wrote:Can you find an example? I searched unsuccessfully.

Something like this maybe?

Hey the idea of pin stripping might look really good, gold color????

Ed

heathicus wrote:Something like this maybe?

heathicus wrote:Something like this maybe?

Oh Yeah! add a calliope and join the circus!:D You may be on the road after youknowwho nails you with the 'baby girl'. Maybe the fire department will let you store it in their museum!

You might want to use something other than an etch a sketch control to paint it though! Also do the entire thing(not just one end).

Sorry justofftheboaticus, I could not resist! A really good 'example' though.

JPG40504 wrote:Oh Yeah! add a calliope and join the circus!:D You may be on the road after youknowwho nails you with the 'baby girl'. Maybe the fire department will let you store it in their museum!

You might want to use something other than an etch a sketch control to paint it though! Also do the entire thing(not just one end).

Sorry justofftheboaticus, I could not resist! A really good 'example' though.

No offense, I got a good laugh out of your post!

I too got the "circus" vibe from it! And the Etch-A-Sketch control to paint it (LOL!)... valid knock on my image editing skills! I just rebuilt my computer and don't have the image editing program I'm familiar with so I downloaded GIMP and I'm kind of lost. The pin striping isn't even the color I wanted. And this cheap optical mouse I have tends to jump around a lot when I try to move it slow.. (Excuses, excuses...) Anyway, both of those points are why I didn't do the whole thing. But I decided to go ahead and post it as a very rough "example" as you said.

heathicus wrote:Something like this maybe?

OK, now that just looks like it should be put behind a velvet rope in a museum somewhere...

heathicus wrote:Something like this maybe?

I just can't find the right words to express how I feel about the cream accent!!! I'll make sure I post it though when I think of it.

Sorry, MickyD. Took a little digging. Heathicus did a good example with the tools he had.

In the example below, notice the outlining on the base behind the flywheel. I don't care for "The Galloway" box or the stars on the flywheel.
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I picked the next example for the striping on the wheels and hubs
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This shows more of the striping all over.
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I think the key is to keep it thin. Example. on part 101-4 (where the way tubes rest when not in drill press mode) the outer edge on the casting is 1/4" thick (mine is cast iron, if you have aluminum it could be different. I don't have a exampe to check, yet ). You could do a beige stripe 1/16" wide down the center. Or do two 1/32" with the burgundy in between ( but that might get a little circusy).

You could always bring the LOYL in to this. From the pictures I've seen it looks like she has a good eye ( married you, didn't she? ) and that might be a way of smoothing her over for the newest baby.

P.S. None of the above machinery is mine. I just remember a Exposition engine at the Smithsonian years ago.
P.P.S. Remember, I'm the guy that thinks the aluminum Mark V headstock should be polished instead of painted.
P.P.P.S. Please remember that when I give marital advice that I am divorced........

Gotta go with the original gray!

Other colors will attract the attention of Shopsmith users, nothing beats a nice clean older unit that looks like it has never been used.