^this

I am going through a nightmare of tying to glue a bunch of tail fins, fuel tanks, and landing gear on 1/700 Hornets and Super hornets from the Trumpeter 1/700 Nimitz. The effect of the clear canopy is nearly lost anyway at that scale, especially when nothing is inside

It doesn't glue as well as regular plastic and it is super hard to actually figure out the glue points/mating surfaces with clear parts that small

And masking the canopies at that scale is an undertaking in itself. I have resorted to masking liquid, but I have to still touch up the rough edges by hand anyway

on the flip side, the 1/350 Yorktown and 1/350 Nimitz I have are actually very nice because there are actually separate clear canopies for many of the aircraft (at least for the F-14s and all the WWII stuff) and the other parts regular plastic. The only ones that are all clear are typically ones like the helicopters since if would be much harder to have a separate clear pieces