Okay... I just did an inventory of the kit contents. Took over an hour. LOTS of sheets/parts in that box. My legs are sore.
I notice all the wood is cut with a router rather than laser, which is fine. A few times I thought there were parts missing but found the parts on that sheet loose in a bag. Of course the acid etch parts are coming in a separate shipment, hopefully within the week.
This kit has a zillion wood parts but makes no attempt to provide all the metal hardware. Even the axle and some of the LG parts will have to be provided by me. I think there will be some other "builder provided" parts as well, once I get into it.
The cowl, as mentioned before is nicely done, complete with little bumps to indicate rivets. I will probably aluminum foil this part for a bright look. My photo of it looks funny because the static electricity on it picked up a lot of sawdust in my shop. Maybe it is time to vacuum?
On Weds. I will make copies of a few of the drawings to build over. The drawings, by the way, are really nicely done, not like your usual fuzzy thick-lined hand-drawn plan drawings with the wood grain shown on every shaggy part. The details are obviously very well thought out and carefully delineated. These drawings are masterpieces and I don't want to cut them up anymore than necessary. I may draw over them with some roll vellum if commercial prints are not accurate to size.
There are lots of decisions to make before I get going, like how to do the aileron servos. On the drawing they are powered by a single standard size servo mounted in the fuselage driving pushrods and bell cranks. The upper wing ailerons are connected by a thin pushrod in a tube (from side to side) and connected to the lower ones with 1mm wire rod. This is a very scale way to do it but I might consider twin mini servos in the lower wing instead. Frank Sopwith did that on the CD Scaledesigns prototype and that's how I did my VK Camel too.