How do you paint machine guns sticking out or canopies?

Why not paint the gun completely, place in the canopy. Then, attach the canopy and mask the glass panels and the gun and continue on to painting the frame work? This may take some patients and acuracy in masking but should give you the result you are looking for.

I do that and a couple of things happen, if I do a camo with the canopy included the gun ends up painted and when I touch up the gun it falls off inside the cockpit and it's gone.  What kind of glue do you use to glue the gun to a clear canopy?

Thanks,

Bill

billy2cold

I do that and a couple of things happen, if I do a camo with the canopy included the gun ends up painted and when I touch up the gun it falls off inside the cockpit and it's gone.  What kind of glue do you use to glue the gun to a clear canopy?

Thanks,

Bill

I would use epoxy.  The other choice is the micro-glaze or similar, which is a weaker glue and may, as you say, come loose.