The Fuselage Kit has arrived!

After being delayed one week by the bad weather in the Midwest the fuselage came it today. I had nobody to help as my best friends Randy and René were away but just as we were carying the box I and the driver, my neighbor Richard barged in, warned of the presence of the truck by his dog. The crate is "just" over 200 pounds, not a big deal for 3 guys.
By mid morning the unpacking was well under way:

The fuselage kit is neatly organized into 10 subkits that are wrapped as bundles plus a dozen individual parts, mostly skins and bulkhead frames.
There is also an impressive amount of hardware as the fuselage contains lots of mechanical components and plumbing for gas and hydraulics.

By late afternoon I started making the inventory, starting with the hardware. There are dozens of little bags neatly sorted with bag numbers, however most bags contains several kind of parts and, of course you have to guess which is what as the individual parts like screws, nuts, nutplates and washers are to small to be individually labelled.
I transfered all bag contents into the drawers of a couple of organizers.


Here is where I stand after spending a second day sorting the hardware and labelling the drawers:

A few bags were containg large parts that did not fit in the drawers and ended up in the six bins above the organizers.
For you new builders, this will give you an idea of the amount of drawers you need for the full plane building process. About a half of the drawers were used by the first two kits (empennage and wings)
Some of the drawers have partitions and hold the content of two bags when the bags have few parts.

I plan to spend a few more hours tomorrow inventorying the subkits.

This is the storage occupied by the fuselage kit. There is surprisingly little on the shelves although some subkits are hidden by the tailcone. I think that parts will spread when I unwrap the 10 subkits. All skins are on the top shelf as well as the rear window of the cockpit and are not very visible on the picture.