I vaguely recall having read that when the Hawker Typhoon cage type
> canopy was cut down and replaced with a bubble canopy the same type
> bubble canopy was also used to convert the Thunderbolt. =A0Is this
> correct? =A0If so it will be worth my while to do the same to the old
> 1/32 Revell Typhoon and Thunderbolt. =A0They are cheap and big enough to
> cut up and modify.
Hate to "burst your bubble", but this seems highly unlikely. The canopies might be somewhat similar, or even identical, but if so, this is purely coincidence. Both aircraft were converted to "bubble" canopies as engineered, production-line design revisions, not some kind of chainsaw field modification with leftover canopies. Thunderbolts were built in the US by Republic; Typhoons were built in England by Hawker. I doubt that they collaborated on the canopy design. Check your drawings before you go firing up your 1/32-scale Husqvarna - maybe they're close enough that it won't matter. I suspect the Typhoon has a more slender fuselage (and therefore narrower canopy) than the T-bolt, though.
John