Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

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As the black patch-out paint was drying, I decided to attack the number boards.  I recently had great success generating these using my inkjet printer on top of CD-label stickers.  However, that was for white boards.  These are black with white letters.  However, I figured if I printed white letters on a black background using Microsof Powerpoint, printed them out, cut them to the same size as the boards and then glued them over the existing boards, that would look a heck of a lot nicer than me trying to do something like rub individual numbers from a dry transfer.  Although I've done that in the past, the numbers never have the right spacing and linear look.

To fit the Alco number boards, I used Arial 6-pt as my font, cut them to size and glued them on with Aleene's tacky glue.  

   

Hypothetically, the Stewart number boards can get pushed out of the headlight holes, but that's only IF the previous owner hasn't put a little superglue on the assemblies.  My front headlight assembly came out just fine, but in the rear I ended up breaking off the number boards from the clear headlight assembly.  They didn't shatter or chip, so I was able to reinstall them with some patience and a small screwdriver.  Popped the front board back in the model, and here we are:

       

The tight shots on the paintouts show a bit of overpaint over the diamonds and at the edges of the cab, and I'd be distressed about that on other projects and would attempt to clean up those lines, but on this project?  Perfect!  I'm looking for shoddy paint work for a change!