Airfix Folland Gnat build - Part Two

Continuing with the build I completed painting the ejection seats and cockpit panel details and then started the process of putting the cockpit together so I could join the fuselage halves.

I was pleased with how a little careful painting picked out the details in the panels and the seats looked good.

I still found I had to file the Pavla parts down in order to get the fuselage halves to mate. In the end I still had a small gap ahead of the nose wheel that I will need to deal with before moving on.

Installing the wheel wells and main undercarriage legs at this point also made handling the model tricky but I didn't see a way around it.