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I recently purchased a Lionel animated windmill and I don't like part of the color scheme.

 

The vanes are white plastic and the platform is black plastic embossed to look like wood planks.  Black wood?

 

I'll probably paint the platform a shade of brown to look more like wood, but not sure about the vanes.  Some windmills have metal blades.

 

I thought the vanes might look better painted a metal color (aluminum, etc). Perhaps making them look rusted is appropriate, but I have yet to master "rusting" to look real.

 

Comments are appreciated.

 

Bill

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Originally Posted by TURTLE 2:

Bill, This is how I painted mine. The problem I think I am having is the weight of the paint on the blades keeps it from operating well. Of course these vibrating types are hard to operate anyway. I plan to motorize it at some point.

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Turtle2, thanks.  I see you chose to make the vanes wooden.  Looks good.  I will have to decide whether to go with wood vanes or metal.

 

Bill

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