Hate to edit this a little bit but today I had a catastrophe which turned out to be a good thing, the front section of the canopy fell off while I was walking with her to the display case, and while inspecting it (and double checking with the photo) I noticed that the paint bled off onto the front section of the canopy...so I thought here goes nothing, grabbed the scalpel and thought of reviving a little trick that dad showed me on thicker canopies. I tried it on the scrap canopy first and it worked well.
Its just a tip for other members to hopefully apply to their builds if one day needed.
1. Scrape off the portion of the canopy section where the paint has bled off, along with a little bit more of the clear section, this gives a uniform scrape.
2. re-apply any cockpit paint if needed (I didn't need any edited so I skipped this step
3. Dab a little gloss coat (in my case Future) and you're done.
The before,
With the section highlighted
The after:
All in all I'm very pleased with it.
and as I was doing that, the front pilots canopy section fell off too, so I fixed it to be more inline with the rear. Am very satisfied with how it all turned out
Although Formula 560 failed me a bit, I learned that you can apply Tamiya Extra Light cement (the Green cap) and not cloud the canopy, again test on scrap canopy section before hand but it worked wonders and all the pieces are melted together now so they can't move
Thanks all
for this one final update