Check some of the kit manufacturer websites.

Great Planes for example make their assembly manuals available for download in PDF.
Read through it, they usually have a quite a few building tips, warnings and don't be fooled-bys.
Might pick up a nack for telling where to use lite-ply, bass or balsa and grain direction for such things
as webs and sheeting. They sometimes even include basic plans for 2x4 hollow core door workbench.

I haven't had the guts to try scratch building yet, I have a set of plans
that it might happen with someday... [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

There are a couple of experienced builders in the neighborhood I might try to put the touch on
someday for a little look over my shoulder time. Try that. The resource isn't the club, but the
experience people in the club.

The closet I came so far t scratch building is when I was building a Goldberg Mirage 550.
They warn about being carefull not to build two right side fuselages...

Well after I built two right side fuselages I had a choice... Buy a batch of new parts from CG...
or go to the hobby shop, get some balsa and make my own replacement parts. It gave me an
appreciation for the ol'timers that hang out here and at the local fields who have scratch built from
the start.