A Few things worth mentioning...

First: See those plastic bags with the hardware in them? It's amazing how quickly that stuff can get lost once the bag is open. Do yourself a favor and get one of those zip-lock bags to put all of those parts in!

Next: Keep all the wood in the box! What i do is to lay the two box halves side by side. Then any time you need to sort through the pieces to find something, you take the pieces out of one box, and put it in the other. That way you always know where all of the wood is (Comes in handy if your shop gets as messy as mine!). Also if any of the small die-cut parts come out of their frames before you're ready for them, keep them in a separate zip-lock bag.

And finally, a word to those of you who have never built a kit, but want to try it some day...

Don't be overwhelmed by the picture that dbow posted showing all of the wood. It does look like a lot. But really, kit building is a simple step-by-step process and a lot of the wood you see there is stuff like wing sheeting, fuselage sides etc. It's really not very hard to do.