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Here is the cast iron engine base repainted.

I used a semi-gloss urethane.

I went to our local Sherwin Williams store. 
I brought a mid 1930s Jensen with me for color matching and I explained I've had trouble before with computers reading colors wrong. Some have come close but I have never been terribly pleased with computer color sampling.  The woman running this store has a very good eye and knows here products well. She brought me directly to a wall of color sample cards and quickly picked out 3 cards all similar. I think this one nailed it. She said she could mix it in a semi-gloss urethane and that was her recommendation.

Gil


Here it is resting on the original 1930s base I had copied.

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And on a small table..

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