Have you heard of the songs, "We will rock you", "We are the champions", "Bohemian Rhapsody", or "Best Friend". These are only a few of their songs, but they had many, many #1 hits.

OMG, haven't heard of Queen????
They are only the best band ever...and also known for their inventive album covers and for being one of the innovators of the music video.

with the best frontman ever...Freddie Mercury
Sorry, I get carried away when it comes to Queen!

The cover of the Miracle was where I got my inspiration.

LOL, just to get this topic back on topic, I'm posting a spur gear that I used rust to coat it with, ran the rust in Noise > Spread a couple times, selected the gear and inverted and cropped the rust layer. Set the rust layer to Darken mode.

The original gear and the rusted one are together in the same image.

wow, it looks like you are going to be in the gear business "0". Those are soooooo cool. All you need now is a steel lathe and you can make some real ones.

Looks really good, although the rust is maybe coating the gear a bit too evenly. Did you also make the gear?

LOL, no, I didn't make the gear. Original gear image here.

Figured I'd give this a try with text.

Nice one, Mike!
There are so many great old tutorials on Gimp Chat.

Very nice, Mike.