Framing the birdcage?
 

How and what material is best for making the frames for the canopies on WW2 birds? I see people cut the canopy frames from the Plexiglas areas of canopies supplied with kits and wonder why.
TIA.

Are you planning to make a sliding canopy? Thats really the only reason you would have to build a frame. If your planning to glue and screw the canopy in place as a whole, then theres no need. Then, you would just paint the frame thats embossed into the canopy. If you are actually going for the sliding canopy, which i must warn you, is alot more work that one would think, then theres a couple ways to go about it.

Thanks for the answer Steve, the desire is to have a 3D effect, the model is large enough to show it off whether or not the canopy slides. Even if I secure the canopy in place (not sliding) I plan on separating the windscreen from the rest of the canopy to achieve a two piece look.

But yes, I've been thinking about a sliding canopy even after watching some youtube videos of the guy struggling with his Corsair canopy.:eek:

Youd be surprised at how good you could get it to look by painting it. Which warbird are you building. Due to geometry some are harder than others to have a sliding canopy.

A Platt Zero.