Fuselage halves glued together. The lower wing includes the rear of the radiator, which is blank styrene. I painted in black and cut a piece of fine mesh to glue onto it.
Wing struts were the right length, just the wrong angle - I cut a slot with a razor saw at the bottom of the front strut and inserted a wedge of scrap styrene which moved the top inwards. The piece of scrap will be trimmed and sanded when the glue dries
Rear centre section struts extended by gluing a section of appropriately sized contrail strut to the end and after it was dry, filled gaps and sanded to shape
Late in the day - decided to use the spats - here the insides of the spats have been ground out to allow the wheels to fit and the wheels and interiors have been painted and weathered
Elastic rigging thread glued to fuselage and lower wing, ready to pass through holes in the top wing. I've also replaced the aileron control rods with steel wire, which will also be fixed by gluing into holes in the underside of the top wing
There are a couple of panels in "The Blue Lotus" showing some Japanese aircraft. They are seen as silhouettes in the distance but are clearly single bay, sesquiplane biplanes. The book is set in 1931 but written in 1935 so it could feasibly be a Kawasaki Ki-10, which was introduced in 1935 and the silhouettes do have the splayed-out struts and look of the Ki-10. I've therefore chosen to depict the planes as an early Ki-10-I and am building the Avis kit, pretty well straight out of the box.
