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The Wood Trick pump jack Kit has shown up, and construction is well under way.
  I did not really know what color to go with, we still have a few pump jacks operational in our Michigan woods, the ones I have seen on public land while bird hunting have been Forest green in color I suppose to blend in with the forest.
  In the end I decided to try black, still experimenting with shoe polish the paste type black Kiwi shoe polish gives a gray color on blonde plywood. The color in photo is liquid black shoe polish in a bottle with foam applicator, it performs more like a penetrating stain and gave a flat black look, next I gave a coat of light tan paste shoe polish and this has given me a semi-gloss black. I have left the burnt laser edges raw for now, but could go around the model at the end and blacken them with a cotton swab dipped in the liquid black.
  I am building the model stock as a wind-up rubber powered unit for now, but hope to power it differently after I see how it goes stock.


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