Next, I removed the flash from the roof's windows. These were relatively easy to remove. The body of the roof, however, on the bottom of one side there was a substantial amount of very thick flash. It took a lot of filing and elbow grease to remove that and make it look like the other side. It is hard to describe, but compare both sides and, if it is there on your model, you'll see the difference.

I added the various details to the roof. I first installed the roof walks, including one grab bar on each end. The kit's instructions don't mention those grab bars, but there were holes for them in the brass roof walk ends. Next, I formed and installed the roof top grab irons. The last detail was the smoke stack. I also drilled out the tubes of the smoke stack to make them look more realistic. I thought about it for a while, but I decided not to install the typical PRR antenna. I wasn't convinced I could build them nice and straight. I may add them in the future. The PRR didn't start installing the Trainphone system on N5c cabin cars until 1946, and by 1957 only about a third of them had the system installed. There were only certain mainline sections where the system was used. The next photo shows the roof airbrushed. I mixed about 50/50 Floquil "Grimy Black" and "Engine Black".

After I had painted the roof, I was looking at the brass sprue and noticed the leftover brass window inserts. Oops!!! I had forgotten to install them before painting the roof. This first photo shows the parts installed from the inside.

This photo shows what the window frames look like from the outside. A subsequent airbrushing session took care of painting those. I also painted the inside of the roof at that time.