Big Blue has inspired some purchases

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You may remember the Intermountain chassis/Athearn Blue Box dummy shell kludged SD40-2 I successfully put together a few months ago is this thread.  I wasn't satisfied with the lighting of the front number boards on that unit - the LED I put in for the front headlight was overpowering the clear boards and pushing light around the edges of the black stickers with white numbers on them pasted to the front of the boards.

Decided to paint the backside of the number boards to tone down the light through them.  In order to do that, I pulled the shell off of the loco and had to remove my light boxes around the front headlight in order to get paint on the back side of those boards.  Cautiously, I painted them white first....  Still too much light around the edges, so a second coat was with black paint.  Seemed to dim those boards right up.  Refastened the LED and the light box, put Humpty Dumpty back together, and wha lha...  Much happier.