This is the state of my model activities this time of the year:
It does improve the visibility to work in the sunshine 
I felt a bit inspired yesterday and began serving my Broadway Limited SW-7.
It had been showing some poor power pick up in the leading bogie, so I disassembled the locomotive as best as I could 
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I washed out as much oil as I could from the gearboxes, as it seemed to be the probable reason for the problem.
While it was disassembled, I took the chance to weather it as well 
It was supposed to look used but not to death… U.S. RR´s during WW2 usually wasn´t much into cleaning the locomotives, and not particularly Port-switchers…
It was marked for NYC, but I wanted to have it in my RR’s markings: M-K & E.
I erased the text with a fiberglass brush and then painted a layer of black (Vallejo Model Air) to completely remove all traces of the text.
I assembled the shell and masked all the windows with Humbrol Maskol.
I then mixed a color of 50-50 black and gray / black. Then I used that in order t