Pop helped me move the wings out of the shop and into a store room at the kennel so that I could free up room in the shop to start work on the fuselage. My kit is a quickbuild, meaning that a whole lot of the fuselage was constructed at the factory and then shipped to me. The instructions don't account for this - you just have to go through the instructions and plans like you were building the kit from scratch and figure out what they didn't do and complete those tasks. This allows me to check the work from the factory and also become acquainted with the part names and how they were put together. I'm spending a lot of time going over the plans and instructions but am not counting this as actual "build time".
Removed the floor and side panels as I went through the instructions and inspected Van's work
