Yup, unpacking the bags into bins would be a good one. Another would be to never, ever, buy someone else's previously started, ah, headache. Yeah, that's it. Very long story short, I ended up tossing virtually everything in trash that was previously done. Entire empennage ended up in the trash. Wings got de-skinned and re-riveted. Had to save the spars as they were matched to the fus; otherwise, I would have trashed the wings too. The parts looked OK when I bought the kit, but my standards changed as I went along. I started with the fuselage and after that was done, I looked at the previously built parts more critically than I did originally and found all kinds of problems...
Heinrich Gerhardt
RV-6, 100 hours on a now-awesome airplane!