I'm a brand new kit builder too, so there will be much more helpful posts by the great ppl in here who have helped me so much. But as far as my experience so far as a beginner kit builder, the sheeting process was indeed the hardest part. I wet down the thin balsa sheets to bend. It seemed to bend really easily. The leading edge sheeting was by far the most frustrating, as you can see documented with pics in my thread "Brand New Kit builder-The Wonder Build". I used yellow glue throughout the build because it's so much stronger than CA, but it is also a lot slower so I used dollar store clamps to hold the sheeting in place.

One helpful method I've found, is using both CA and yellow glue on the same piece. For instance, use CA at intermittant places, and yellow glue between, so it glues down fast, but also has the yellow glue bonding it solid.

THe BIGGEST tip I can say, as a beginner, is to make sure the ribs fit perfectly and evenly onto the wing spar, by sanding the notches in the ribs that fit unevenly and don't fit right down onto the spar perfectly, ,so that the sheeting goes down flatter and easier. I didn't do this important step, and I struggled all the way through sheeting, using T-pins and clamps to hold it down. In the end I still had a big gap on the top side leading edge, which I filled with wood glue and sanded down. That worked nicely.