Body panel spacing. How big is too big?

OK, so to test fit the Frankenstein parts for my 74 Duster project I set the doors with decent 3/16-1/4 in gaps. The fenders have similar decent gaps to the doors.

Sorry for the poor quality pics and everything being different colors and just roughed in.

First pic shows the door to fender gap as being decent

Next is a pic of the cowl-fender-hood gaps. It looks bad where they all come together.

I want to slide the hood back and the fenders forward a bit, but then the fenders will stick out past the front edge of the hood.

A body man a know thinks it's OK having a larger gap hood to cowl than the others.

I'm not sure I'm digging that.....