Thanks Jim, and yes, I'm very pleased with how they dealt with it.
Not a lot of progress today as I've been faffing with other things, and forgot to take photos, but I got the booms/tailplane/rudders fitted. Here they are just dry fitted, glue seems almost unnecessary!
But glue them up I did, and I squirted a bit of primer over the sanded seams just to make sure they were ok.
Fitted the drop tanks together and wondered how I'd be able to know the right from left of the stabilising brackets once cut from the sprue.
Tamiya was ahead of me
I painted up all of the landing gear and the insides of the bay doors, and while I had the silver paint out I thought I'd have a go at a bare metal finish for one of the tanks.
A coat of Mr Surfacer first
Then a couple of thin but wet coats of silver.
I don't think I've captured it well in the picture and it'll get a bit of a polish once fully cured, but it looks pretty good in reality. Not sure if the tanks were ever bare metal in service but I know the aircraft sometimes was and it'll add a bit of variety.
I've also decided to add the pilot figure and started painting him today, but you definitely don't want to see pictures of that just yet