I'm about to put together the back end of my Tamiya 1/48 F-14A Tomcat. The instructions have you remove a little fillet of plastic on each side of the beaver tail next to the fairings. I did so, but now see this gap between the fairing piece and the beaver tail:
My first instinct was to break out some plastic sheet and fill this gap back in, but seeing how everything else on this bird has just fallen together, I thought there's a chance this is supposed to be there. I've had a hard time getting pictures from just the right angle to show this area, but it