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Update on the GP35...

I decided to work on the number boards for the front and rear, so I went searching for the transparent window insert for the front cab....   I started last night and turned over my workbench and my desk to no avail.  What should have been an easy task just got tougher.  Plan B.

Since there's no cab headlight, I wasn't going to worry much about lighting up the number boards, figuring that there would be enough blowback from the nose light that it should wash into the cab and hit enough of the transparent number boards, but now that I can't find that piece, Plan B has to try to get at least some light onto the board.

So, I have an extra cab roof (alas, without the number board insert) to serve as a test bed.  Dug through the extra plastic parts and found some decking for a bridge.  Just so happens that the ties on that bridge are just the right width to fit inside the number board on the cab

   

Cut to approximate length, sanded the ends until they would slip in, and then ran a few holes through the middle to allow some light in.

   

Printed the road number on some sticker paper and cut to fit the boards and installed on the real deal.

   

Also cut a light window in the center of the two rear number boards with three holes drilled in each, 

   

and applied the same stickers there, and I'm really pretty happy with the way the number boards are lit (reduced the exposure quite a bit to get the number boards to show the light you see in real life).  Ready for decals and that blasted plow (if CMR ever gets it into the mail).