It looks good! 
A small tip regarding the engine half tubes: Pre-shape them by rolling them over a big rod, tube or pen. Then first glue the inner flap down to the fuselage base. Use a thin rod to press down the flap while glue is curing. Space is very narrow there. Then put some glue on the outer flap and carefully push the outer half under the notch of the half circle formers. Constantly press the flap down with a thin rod while adjusting the position of the engine tube with your thumb to achieve a flush finish. Do not press down the half tube itself because that would lead to warping.
And in general: NEVER EVER print a kit using "shrink to fit" or via the Windows picture viewer. The parts won't match the scale any longer and as you noticed won't fit as intended. Even if the pages are the same size the printer will spoil them. Don't worry, take it as a learning experience. Please continue, even with mismatching parts this build will prepare you for the next one. Print the pages using the Gimp: Load the images and print them as they are. Gimp will preserve the resolution (203 dpi) and make sure that the parts are correctly scaled. The pages are designed for A4 size, so if you are printing on letter size paper you'll have to rescale them. Do that with the Gimp, too. The easiest way is to raise the resolution while keeping the canvas size. A resize to 210 dpi should suffice.
A small tip regarding the engine half tubes: Pre-shape them by rolling them over a big rod, tube or pen. Then first glue the inner flap down to the fuselage base. Use a thin rod to press down the flap while glue is curing. Space is very narrow there. Then put some glue on the outer flap and carefully push the outer half under the notch of the half circle formers. Constantly press the flap down with a thin rod while adjusting the position of the engine tube with your thumb to achieve a flush finish. Do not press down the half tube itself because that would lead to warping.
And in general: NEVER EVER print a kit using "shrink to fit" or via the Windows picture viewer. The parts won't match the scale any longer and as you noticed won't fit as intended. Even if the pages are the same size the printer will spoil them. Don't worry, take it as a learning experience. Please continue, even with mismatching parts this build will prepare you for the next one. Print the pages using the Gimp: Load the images and print them as they are. Gimp will preserve the resolution (203 dpi) and make sure that the parts are correctly scaled. The pages are designed for A4 size, so if you are printing on letter size paper you'll have to rescale them. Do that with the Gimp, too. The easiest way is to raise the resolution while keeping the canvas size. A resize to 210 dpi should suffice.
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