Thanks gentlemen.
First of all, I need to make a correction to my previous post (now edited). Having looked deeper into the lever on the right hand side of the cockpit, I realized that the Hasegawa detail is, in fact correct. Rather than representing the hydraulic hand pump which is not included in the kit, this part is supposed to be part of the seat support frame and the lever is for adjusting the height of the seat. See detail here from the Mushroom publication:
The reference photos that I was looking at had the seat removed revealing just the hand pump, hence my mistake. Oddly, only the right hand seat frame was provided in the kit so I may go ahead and add the left frame to keep things kosher. It's a simple add and so is the hand pump.
Last night I want ahead and dry-fitted the major bits together to make sure things will fit properly. I must say that Eduard did a fantastic job with their resin parts. There's not a single part in their complex engine plug that messes up with the fit so I'm very happy with that. That blue pipe did manage to fall out when I did this.
It appears that there will be a gap where the rear of the wing meets the fuselage bottom but that is easily fixed.
The casting block for the Brassin engine plug does not need to be removed. It misses everything.
The insides of the wing root mouldings have very large ejector pin marks (red arrow below) on both sides that need to be removed as there are PE ribs to be added here.
Playing with the blue pipe. Maybe it goes like this? Need to look at some more references....
Here's something that needs fixing in this kit. The elevators provided have moulded-in horn balances (yellow arrows below) that were added in late series production C.202's. The affected series is from the Breda-produced Series XI s/n MM. 9602 and after so the balances should not be there for my model.
This area will need to be puttied and rescribed to reflect the correct arrangement.
Thanks again for taking a peek. I may swing by with more later today.