"and how DO you glue two fuselage halves together neatly??"
You clean up the two halves so they fit together as neatly as possible.
Assemble them together dry and press some sticky tape (Scotch Magic Tape is good) firmly around the join lengthwise, which will hold the two sides together.
Next, split the tape along the join with a sharp knife (Swann Morton scalpel is best).
This gives you two halves nicely masked so should the glue ooze out of the join, it'll end up on the tape and not on the plastic.
If all goes well this leaves only a wafer thin glue line to clean up.
I've just ordered some 1/144 Hurricane kits made by a Japanese manufacturer Sweet. Apparently, these are state of the art kits for this scale I'd love to see more 1/144 kits for the 1930-1940 period of the RAF, but don't hold out much hope as it's a somewhat specialist interest. 1/72 I'd find hard to store.
Mark.