Thanks, everyone, for the compliments & for the tips and suggestions along the way.
This will likely be the last update for this thread as the mill is complete. I may do a touch more weathering, and I need to clean-up the spackle around the windows, but it's all done and fully operational. I'll do a second post with the video, but will start with some pics in this one.
Here's the mill with the lights running and the wheel complete/attached. Looking in from the wheel side:
...and from the loading side:
a look at the "grinding stone" itself:
Here's a close-up of the wheel with the "bolts" and "steel" plate installed:
The environment around the mill is not complete, but here's how the mill will be situated:
