Thanks everyone. I spent some quality time yesterday and today finishing off the wings and other odds and sods so here's a step by step.
The next thing to do on the flaps is to create the rounded leading edges. For this, I split some styrene tube in half along the length and then CA glued them to the flap. It's important to keep them flush to the top surface as the bottom surface will tuck into the wing and will not be seen.
Next, the edges of the wing cut-out need to be filed and scraped down to a knife edge so that the flaps, when inserted, come to an almost flush edge.
The wings are then installed onto the fuselage before the flaps are put on. The reason for that is that I wanted to allow easy adjustment of the upper wing surface at the wing root. Had I glued the flaps in first, it would have stiffened the wing too much. Once the wings were glued on and set, the flaps were then installed.
The other thing I had to do before gluing the wings on was to fix the non-existent oil cooler exit duct.
Sheet styrene to the rescue...
Another thing this kit got wrong was the engine cowl panel detailing. The long piano hinge stops too short and needed to be extended. A piece of stretched sprue did the trick and this will be filed down and serrated with a knife to simulate the hinge extension.
While in the mood, I got on with cutting out the leading edge slats. My photo-etched saws are essential for this. After digging a groove with an x-acto blade, the saws are used to deepen the cut until through, and then the cut is continued to the intersecting cuts.
Thin styrene card is CA glued into the opening and small, thick bits of card glued on to support the slats.
The trailing edge of the slats are scraped and filed to a knife edge before CA gluing them to the supports.
And this is how she looks now. The seams have been painted with left over dark grey cockpit colour.
I'm beginning to wonder what the colour of the top surface camo should be and am open to suggestions from our LW experts.