P43/P47 Canopy query

The P-43 was a much smaller airframe, but who knows.  I have them both in 1/48, I'll take a look.

The Classic Airframes canopy is about 15% smaller in every dimension compared to the Tamiya canopy.  the framing is the same on the windscreen and sliding part, but the aft windows are completely different.

Thanks for the reply John. I'm not worried about the aft windows so much, but if the canopy itself is the same size, then using a modified P47 canopy instead of the vacform canopy in the kit becomes a possibility. It makes sense that in wartime if the P47 was basically just a bigger and better Lancer in many respects, they might have simply continued using the Lancer canopy to save time and costs. Apart from the aft windows, they look almost identical, but I don't have the drawings or any other way to check the relative dimensions. It would be great if they were.

Yeah it would be nice.  Are you working with the Classic Airframes kit?  Based on my comparison of the parts, the Tamiya parts would not fit, much too large.

Yes, it's the 1/48 Classic Airframes. It was always going to be a longshot, but worth a try

I used a Falcon vac canopy meant for a razorback P-47 on this old RAREplanes P-43 Lancer (1/72 scale, of course!):