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Starting to look like an aircraft here. Fuselage closed up, wings and tail glued on, fins and canopies dry fit, engine pod just sitting there.
Gluing the fuselage together I got the front end nicely lined up, but didn't quite notice that I had a misalignment in the rear. A split second later and the superglue used had decided to harden up way past the point where trying to pry apart this quite brittle resin (even by resin standards) likely wasn't a good idea. So that's some more filler and sanding needed (luckily basically all hidden under the tail). The fuselage itself obviously needed a decent amount of that anyway, quite often I could go over the seam after it was joined up and pour on superglue like you'd normally brush on extra thin cement.
The offset canopy is inda neat, but it made it rather hard to tell if things were aligned right. Add in my own misalignment of the fuselage, and possibly a slight warping from manufacture too... Wings have bravely/foolishly just been superglued on despite being a flat surface butt joint, I did at least wipe the surfaces down with denatured alcohol and lacquer thinner first. Canopy was a pleasant surprise where it fits quite nicely just after my first rough trimming, though I'm not sure that really makes up for the nose which in return is just quite a bit too big (you can see in the photo how I've managed to slide it on a few mm past where it should fit). That's gonna be a real treat to fix. Oh, and you don't get any clear parts for the small windows just behind the nose (nor the small one underneath the fuselage), unless you feel like cutting some of the trimmed off bits from the vacuformed nose&canopy to fit. Though I'd probably just fill them with Kristal Klear even if parts had been included, so that's more of an observation than complaint really.
