Sit down with the plan and make up a flow chart of how to make an airplane from it. Also, if the plan does not have one, make up a materials list. First, this will allow you to spend many happy hours without much expense. Secondly, you will avoid many mistakes (but not all) and your actual building will go much faster. My usual thing is to build the stab and elevator first because this gives me a completed thing pretty quickly. Remember the old adage, "Measure twice, cut once."

Jim