I've since done a little bit of light sanding and cleaned up the panel lines as well as some of the more obvious blemishes then touched up the paint.  Doing invasion stripes on this (glutton for punishment) so I've started taping the stripes and will be painting them on this morning. i was happy to see my Tamiya 1cm masking tape was almost the perfect width for 1/48 stripes on this which made it an easier process than expected.