Thanks Evan! Yeah, read that, what a load of........!!
The 'restoration' is now complete! It's not perfect, but then the model is 25 years old, and has more paint on it than my front door, but it looks pretty tidy and bright now, and I'm reasonably happy with it. The main thing is, the exercise in using home-produced decals turned out better than I expected, and has provided some good pointers for the future.
After much deliberation, and some experiments with the canooy from the 'new' Matchbox kit, I decided to revert to the scratch-built canopy I made when the model was first built, fixed in the open position.
PIC 1. Shows the scratch-built canopy, made from plastic sheet, strip, stretched sprue and clear sheet, and consisting of 38 separate parts. I've just noticed that I've forgotten to fit a canopy restraining wire, so I'll do that soon, along with some touch- up and tidy - up here and there.
PICS 2 to 8 are general views of how the model now looks, as Werk Nummer 1990, 'Black13', flown by Oblt. Helmut Tiedmann, Staffelkapitan of 2/JG 3 in August, 1940.
Thank you all once again for your interest and kind comments, and now, I'll get on with a similar restoration on the Typhoon.