I glued on the nose and the intake.
It doesn't look like that much progress, but the intake to fuselage joint wasn't great and it took a lot of work to make it disappear (red arrows)
If they would have placed this joint a half inch to the rear at the forward end of the main gear bay like the old Monogram kit did there would have made for a lot less work involved.
Filled and sanded the joint on the bottom of the wings, did a neutral gray wash on the white gear bay interiors and installed the ventral fins and wing tip rocket rails
Also filled and sanded the ugly upper wing to fuselage joint and glued on the tail
I always seem to be making more work for myself.
While looking at some pictures of the canopy (First 2 pictures Source: the internet) I could see that there is some sort of black gasket running around the edge of the plexiglass.
To make this work I first masked the canopy about 1MM in from the line of the frame and sprayed it black, then masked over that 1mm and will paint it with the camo color. In the third picture all that masking has been done ( 2 hours over 2 days) and the canopy sections glued to the fuselage. I must say that this is one of the nicest fitting enjected molded canopies I've ever dealt with.