Ok, I got started on the 1/48 Eduard MiG-21R. If you haven't built the 1/48 Eduard MiG-21 series, just pick up one of the kits. The engineering is beautiful.
But there is one caveat. Eduard provides no fewer than FIVE different instrument panel options (standard raised detail, flat faced to take a decal, and several clear panels, some of which are for different versions). So, there are THREE options for the instrument panel on this kit, but nothing for the cockpit sidewalls.
It seems when Eduard made the kit, they only allowed for the PE panels to replicate the sidewalls. On this particular kit, a weekend edition without the PE, Eduard helpfully suggests "Plastic" be used. It's not a huge deal, but it's an annoying oversight from an otherwise stellar kit. They do the same thing with their Bf-109E-7 when it comes to the tropical filter, by the way. They give a plastic box tube for the filter that has no vent detail, which is meant to take a PE part, but then they packaged it in a weekend edition without PE, leaving you with a bare, underscale part if you don't find a way to handle it.
Anyway, rant over. I used the decals as templates, cut the sidewalls out of Evergreen sheet, primed, painted with Mr. Paint MiG Cockpit Turquoise, then applied the decals.
-BD-