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Anyone do this yet? What did you use?

You mean like this.

No, like WW2 Fighter style.

You need an aircraft canopy.
Lucky for you there is a thriving market in after-market third-party vac-formed acetate canopies out there (the ones that come as standard in model kits do not satisfy the diehard rivet-counters (traditional hard-core scale modellers). Check with a decent-to-good dedicated model store (not, for the love of pete, a mediocre games store). Model stores tend to have a better range of that stuff.

Depending on the aircraft, and the vintage (time period) your scale might be different for the needed canopy.
I did have a 1/72 scale Mirage 2000 canopy that seemed to fit the piranha model I had (frak knows where it is now, though) - but a WW2 prop-driven antique might be too small.

There is a method for making your own custom vac-formed canopies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS8ETVtKpCA

The video is just the first one I found on Google.

The method can be used for small scale kits. You can read about it in aircraft modelling books.

Someone has done it, but can't search now for a pic.