Firstly, hello to everyone here on Simviation forums.
I have spent a couple of hours scanning these forums this evening to try and find a solution to my SP2 problems with textures.
I found the semi-solution for the props, but found nothing about the canopy glass texture problem, except that it exists.
As I found a solution to this problem on my newly acquired An-26 by Vladimir Zhyhulskiy (excellent model) I thought I'd share it.
It was as simple as copying the glass texture from the Chipmunk v3 model and pasting it in the relevant texture file for the An-26 and renaming it to 'GLASmask' (after first deleting the original file).
That's it!
Personally I don't care much about the prop blade textures (they're not that bad) - I can't see them from the cockpit, and that's where I fly from, so who cares what they look like! I use the HS748 sound file - it's much better than the King Air ones that Vlad uses and he does say that we should find our own ones. ;)