Tail fin
I was looking for this and couldn’t find it in the box! Had to refer to the instructions only to discover that this whole area of the instructions that should deal with the fin is missing from the sheet ☹ bizarre. Hunting around for suitable parts, it becomes clear that the fin is made up of several parts and does, helpfully, offer the option for a fin with or without the rectangular receiver protruding from the front and rear edges near the fin tip.
You can see the fin now attached and the fit is pretty good with just a small gap that looks very realistic beneath the rudder.
Enter photoetch
Upper trailing edge spoilers are supplied as separate PE parts – the aim is that these can be displayed deployed but I haven’t seen a photo showing that in reality so they need to go onto the model closed up. The fit isn’t too bad but I had to shave a small amount off the front of the locating tabs to get them to sit nice and flush with the upper wing surface.
Notice that I’m using the very nice PE cutting mat from Pinnacle Modelling Supplies – this was recently reviewed in SMN – here.
