All us Flanker nuts, such as myself, are accutely aware of the horrible, inaccurate canopies on both the Gaincorp and Witty birds. After obtaining some excellent Flanker schematics, however, I discovered, much to my surprise, that the upper longitutinal contour, of Witty's canopy, is correct. It's the lower contour, where the canopy & windscreen meet the fuselage, the framing and the glass area that are incorrect on Witty's version.
An accurate fix, of Witty's canopy, would involve grinding down the canopy & windscreen, to their proper shape, and building up the fuselage surrounding the cockpit tub- far more work than I was interested in attempting. So, instead, I tried to see if I could do a make-shift correction by simply painting over the parts of the canopy/windscreen that should be fuselage. The pics below are the result of my experiment. Unfortunately, the FS35237 Medium Gray was not quite a match for Witty's gray.
