I was going to start masking the LaGG-3's canopy. Noticing some dust and fingerprints I decided clean them off with a quick swipe with a brush dipped in rubbing alcohol. This was a mistake (I love understated British humor :-) ). The canopy fogged, and I nearly panicked. Ok, I did panic. But then I calmed down and got to work fixing it.
The picture really doesn't show how bad it was.
About an hour to an hour and a half of sanding with 600, 4,000, and 12,000 grit sanding sticks and buffing with a cotton swab got it to this point. This was much better but still a little opaque.
Then a dip in Future got it clearer. I took the canopy back off to let it dry under cover for a full 24-48 hours.
I'll re-evaluate once the canopy is fully dry if a second coat of Future is needed.
In some ways this is funny, since historically some LaGG-3 pilots removed their canopies because the manufacturing quality of the Soviet perspex was so bad.
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