I think I may have asked this long ago here, but I can't find it if I did. I just can't seem to visualize a confident way of doing this. I've got an Electra kit that I need to get at sometime but the canopy (glass) install has me nervous. For those not familiar with the Electra, it has essentially the same cockpit/canopy design as a Smoothie, a clear one piece windscreen with windows that wrap around to the sides with a solid painted "roof".
The "glass" is simply a plastic one piece wraparound of the necessary shape to land correctly into position. The goal of course is to end up with the cockpit side glass on the same level as the fuselage sides when finished. It seems tough for me to describe exactly, but what I mean is that when finished you could essentially lay a straightedge along the side glass rearward to the fuselage and it would have an uninterrupted smooth transition with the glass being at the same height as the fuselage. I see this on finished models all the time, but can't figure out how it's done so that later on there is no cracking of seams or blended areas. I can easily install, fill and blend the "glass" into the fuse, but I can't get over thinking the transition area ends up so thin that it will be very likely to crack or split. So anyway, how is this done so you don't have any problems with cracking?