Body rounded, filled and sanded. I think! Every time I look I find some more places to sand. And the wood is very soft so it's easy to ding.
I'm planning on brushing on the finish and doing a wipe on varnish. My finish was the big letdown on my last build, so I'm planning on doing plenty of testing before I go ahead on the real thing. I'm following the Martin Koch suggestions in Building Electric Guitars. We'll see how we go.
Don't know what colour I'm going for yet, but I have the green vintage kluson tuners so I need something that won't clash with the green.