Not really sure what you mean "look it's age"
You going to repaint it in avacardo hammer finish the tip a bucket of gravel over it from 50 feet to simulate all the stone chips
Or file a groove in the pull start to simulate the wire cutting through the casting ?
Or grind all the tread off the tyres ?
Or punch holes in the sides of the right wheels ?
SO if you want hints on how to achieve a 1954 patina some here might be able to help.
If you want technical information then you are in the wrong place.
There would be lucky to be a bakers dozen Aussies on here & of them less than 1/2 would know what a model 5 looks like.
I would suggest that the
Outdoor King forum or the
Vintage mowers forum would be a more helpful place to visit.
Both of these require a $ 5.00 donation towards the cost of running the forum.
I am on both of them but don't post on outdoor king very often.
Th e bulk of the members here are from the USA so know lots about Lawnboys but SFA about Victas.
