It’s Black. Satin Black.
The weather is turning ugly once again and that is bringing my restoration progress to a screeching halt. I need to spray but cool damp air is nearly the worst environment for that effort. I don’t want my hard work to go into reverse so I’m moving all the parts back into the house. (With the house on the market, this is a bit of a trick since I can’t leave them handing around and some of the parts of big or heavy or both!)
With the base frame in the house along with the a-frame and a few of the arbor stands, I just could not resit any longer - I had to click off a couple of pictures.
Back on April 8th, Carl read the post on polishing and commented, “You sure that’s the same clock we picked up?” The following picture should just add to his skepticism <grin>.
The front of the base frame looks so clean now that the spare holes are filled. The same goes for the a-frame but it needs some of those holes <grin>.
I preferred the British Raching Green
Looking great. When that’s done you can come finish painting my house
If the frame had had any sort of detail to it (cast edges etc.) or if it had not been rough cast, I probably would have gone with two colors - dark green and black accents. But with only one color, I think it would have looked odd no matter what color I chose. Once the polished bronze train is installed, it will look a bit like this -> http://www.my-time-machines.net/Dcp00664-rotated.jpg
Perhaps the next one will be green.