Weeellll we had a little boo boo.........ok maybe a big Faux Pas.......sigh, essentially glued the nose cannon base instead of the nose MG base into the nose.....
Nothing else to do but man up and pull out the power tools, At first A cut off saw, and after a swipes with a scalpel I figured I would shortly be cutting my thumb in half I chucked up a milling tool to finish things off.
The surprising thing is that even though I had flooded the thing the day before with Tamiya's Extra Thin, by working the knife blade I was able remove some of the plastic from the slots which saved a lot of work getting things to line up.
One thing to watch for is if the front bulkhead, to which the air bottles are glued, is glued in vertically, it will not clear the cannon exit holes, so I glued mine in at an angle. I'm not doing anything more then I need to to mount the guns as I'm not opening this area up.
Going back to the short run analogy, the joint between the nose and the fuselage needs a bit of cleaning up, the lip on the nose that slots into the groove in the fuselage needed to be trued up with a knife as it was pretty crude and the groove in the fuselage was a bit uneven, but with a bit of care all fit very well
The top cover is also a bit on the short side, one could sand down the nose to suit but I think it would be better to add a shim to the back.
It's also slightly high at the fuselage joint, given the thin plastic at this point I will probably sand the bottom off a touch