I'm in Meridian, MS but I don't think that I would be of any help because I'm a newbie too and I just got my Empennage Kit in Yesterday. My crate came in perfect not a ding on the box. Open it up and everything is Duct taped together. So if you had the idea about leaving the Blue film on the parts while you work with them, good luck. The Duct tape rips all the film off when trying to get them out of the box, but I guess I would rather deal with the Duct tape then to have dented parts. I started Inventory last night and got everything done except of the big bag of the small parts. That?s going to take a while.