Thanks vey much chaps, it's really appreciated.
Michael, thanks for the compliment, but the detail is all from the kit - I just painted it and high-lighted a few things.
Been looking at photos and plans of the NF.12 cockpit, and I've discovered why there was a little interference around the top of the instrument panel. Classic Airframes have this raked at an angle, around 35 to 45 degrees, which I had to increase slightly to get it to fit, and the lower panel is angled forward, into the cockpit, to clear the front of the nose wheel housing,
Photos show the panel slightly raked, but not much from the vertical, so it would have been better to lengthen the cut-outs on the side walls, and move the panel back, toward the seat slightly.
The front cockpit assembly appears to be ever so slightly too far forward, maybe by about 1 to 2 mm, so this hasn't helped the fit.
Too late now, and not a real problem, as it looks acceptable enough, and can only just be seen when the closed canopy Is in place.
Anyway, I went to the pub, had a couple or three, then came home and fell into bed, to sleep for England !
I did
not attempt to do any modeling !
But earlier today, I got the fuselage joined, which went together better than expected. This was joined in stages, starting at the tail, and the large open space on the bottom, where the wing fits. helped by allowing pressure to be exerted from the inside, to align mainly the upper joint and eliminate, or at least vastly reduce, the possibility of a 'step' in the joint, bearing in mind there are no locating pins to aid alignment.
I had intended to use strips of plastic, cemented inside the fuselage halves, to help align the halves, but these couldn't be fixed in such a way to make even contact on each side, and didn't help much, so after trialing the first strip, I abandoned this idea, and worked as described above.
There's a very small gap at the extreme rear tip of the fin 'bullet' fairing, where a nodule of excess plastic was removed from the inner face, but this can easily be filled when the fairing filets are added.
The joint immediately in front of the cockpit has been un-glued for now, to aid fit and alignment of the nose section when fitted.
Trial fitting shows the probability of a small 'step' in the joint at this area, first noticed when initially 'dry-fitting' the parts and now confirmed,so a small 'filler' strip will be added, and sanded back once the joint has set.
I'm currently working on that at the moment, and hope to get that completed very soon, and move on to the engines and wings.
Pics blow show the state of play to date, along with that small tail-end gap, indicated by the red arrow.