I hear ya Wayne, not planning on making a habit of it!
Been busy constructing wings and other sub-assemblies. The way I deal with seams on most things is to run Tamiya Extra Thin through the seam a section at a time and quickly clamp the parts firmly so that a thin line of molten plastic is squeezed out of the seam. Don't touch it!
It's left to dry for several hours and then the back of a hobby knife is used to gently remove the bulk of the squeezed out plastic.
Any residual squeezed out plastic is sanded off and the join polished with various grades of sandpaper and panel lines that cross the join re-scribed. Et voila, no seams and no filler needed
Helps when the kit is well-engineered like this one is.
I used this method to assemble various other sub-assemblies with no problems.
Although this phase is a bit tedious, I have to tip my hat to Tamiya again. Everything fits perfectly, and they have even supplied extra PE detail for the flaps which also conforms perfectly to the assemblies and surface detail. This is by far the best engineered kit I have ever built.
Thanks for dropping by guys.