Thanks Eric @eb801!
You can call the Venom a punchier looking Vamp, many of their subassemblies are lookalikes.
The Glencoe kit is absolutely on the basic side: no cockpit, not even cockpit walls, no wheel wells, closed unreal intakes were the main areas of concern.

Final scratchbuilds...

Based on the Classic Airframes instructions and also on actual FAV Venoms pics, I added the following scratchbuilt parts:

• A port fin pitot tube (stretched sprue):

  

  1. Pitot that needs some trimming...

• A wire antenna at each boom middle top (stretched sprue):

  

  1. Wire antennas

• A gunsight made from styrene with an acetate "glass";

  

  1. Gunsight

• Two seemingly pullout steps below each cockpit side a VHF antenna beside the starboard pullout step and four spent cartridge case chutes beside the guns:

  

  1. spent cartridge case chutes
  2. VHF antenna
  3. Pullout step??

Ready to attach the canopy!

Thanks, my friend @airbum!

A final note:

Our friend Tom Hering @TomHering provided valuable info about the history of the kit. Though Glencoe label it as “1/48”, it is the 1/59 old Lincoln kit, so I edited the article to account for this correction. The finished model looked so petite, to be honest, for 1/48, and I hadn’t put it beside my 1/48 Hobbycraft Vampire, so the difference in scales would be apparent.

I thus changed the 1/48 to 1/59 everywhere.Thanks Tom!