PAINT, a kind of bronze that goes on looking old.
ALLOY to that this image: self-moving plow, tanks, gauges, steam.
FORTY acres and a steam plow!
FIBER for a story seems thin, but the image lingers..

VOWEL, bought in a game show, connective, melodic
BLUNT, forthright or dull, which is it?
STOKE, fire building, coal shoveling, furnace filling,
SHADY: relief in summer or actions in hiding.