Well, I have been both cursed and blessed with a long running but not particularly serious case of Covid. Cursed because I'm not going anywhere or doing anything, blessed because no one is bothering me about work. 
Back to back 10 hour days model building is unheard of for me.
so here are some updates:
I got the fuselage put together. (I forgot to snap a pic) It was tricky but I just worked it a little at a time, and eventually I got all that freaky twisting to go away. I used extra thin glue initially along with clamps. Once the glued areas were holding well, I slathered the back side of the joints with super glue. May not make a difference, but it did ease my mind...
Next was the wing assemblies. By now I've come to take nothing for granted with this kit.
There is some kind of fine flash around virtually every part and it will mess you up. Also alignment pins are not your friend. Dry fitting the upper and lower wing sections revealed if the issues were not addressed, there would be a significant step at the joint...
I scraped the upper wing areas with an exacto in order to remove the excess plastic. The towers for the alignment pegs were also in the way so I snipped those off too. Then a thorough sanding job to thin the lower section plastic resulted in a nice stepless transition in between the two pieces.
Next, it was time to put the fuselage and wings together. Another bewildering situation. Kinetic, if you're gonna put "helpful" pegs on the inner wing edges, please make sure they are narrower than the notches they are supposed to clip into on the fuselage...
After playing around with these things for about 5 minutes, I took a pair of side cutters to them. The concept of L shaped peg and notch connections seemed like a good idea, but the areas they were going into were already too tight because of the landing gear bays. This, along with all the flash, and the pegs being too wide for the molded in notches made a more traditional wing attachment seem the right way to go...
So here is where it sits
