So glad I saw this! I want to work up the nerve to paint a machine or two! All my current vintage machines are in excellent condition, however, but every time I see a "dog" machine when I'm out and about I think about buying it and stripping it down to paint it. I'm just so scared I'll mess it up. I would love to have a fire engine red machine as well as a pretty pastel pink machine with "diamonds" on it! And then maybe a sunshine yellow one...and a turquoise one. Oh, lawsy, where would I put them? My little 10x11 sewing room is overflowing with the 25 machines I currently have! All but one is a vintage machine, and my modern machine is the cheap Brother XL-5130 I bought from Walmart about 8 years ago! (but it sews just fine for banging around at quilting project days!)