A suggestion? Screw trying to match the original textures. The forward cockpit 'loop' structure, and its tiny window, should be lowered, so that the pilot looks directly forward through the 'top' panel. On the original, the cockpit 'droops' a bit more than on the new model: given the ridiculous size of the 'nose' window panel, its obviously not where the pilot is supposed to be looking.
Remember the pilot seat is probably reclined 30 degrees or so. I figure he's seated almost at the 'back' of the cockpick area, reclined, looking forward through the drooped part of the main window, giving him much better visibility than being sat straight up way down in the hull looking through a peephole. Maybe the tiny window is for landing or something
