Add-on accessories for models

Howdy,

I'm preparing to build an aircraft (don't know which of the 15 kits in my closet I'll start with; what a terrible dilemma) using accessories for the first time (i.e. cockpit add-ons).

My question is this: Example -- say I'm building a F4U-1A in 1/48 scale from Tamiya. I want to use a more detailed cockpit add-on, but all I could find was a cockpit for a 1/48 scale F4U-1A made for Hasagawa (or Revell, Monogram, etc). Would it still work???

Bottom line: if the scale and model of aircraft matches, but the manufacturer the add-on was designed for is different, can I use that??

Thanks for the assistance,

AFIntel (TSgt USAF)