Although the comment about an instruction booklet was tongue in cheek, as it turns out there is written instructions in the form of a PDF.
http://fr.zone-secure.net/11829/124085/#page=1
The PDF is helpful, but the instruction videos are better. Please keep in mind as you read through this, i am a first time builder, and what my be common knowledge to you is new knowledge to me. If what i do is crazy, just go ahead and laugh, that is the merciful part of the internet, I can't hear you. I can read your helpful suggestions, however.
As suggested in the main build video I started by building the power pod first.
Packaging of this kit is clever. Everything you need to build the airplane is package in the shrink wrapped package. Cutouts in the foam board hold the firewall and velcro. Sticks, straw and wire are taped to the foam board and everything is shrink wrapped together.
When looking for a part to assemble you need to look at both sides sometime to clearly ID the part. They look different.
Front of fuselage board.
Back
The Assembly of the pod was pretty straight forward. Punch the pod out of main board, remove the, strips and glue.
There was one small problem. I have limited experience with glue guns. I have used them once or twice over a lifetime, a long time ago. My wife, the retired Kindergarten teacher who used them all the time in her career, laughed at me, very long and loud when I burned myself, several times-slow learner. She warned me when the Grand-daughter comes over, I can not use those words. Darn that glue gets hot.
The kit includes two firewalls, a three holer an a four holer. The four holer was installed in the Tiny Trainer video, so that is what was used.
Things were going pretty smooth at this point, burns aside.
The Motor comes with three lengths of screws and a small ball tip allen wrench. A nice touch, the ball head wrench.
The flight test Power Pack A (Minis) list an allen wrench in the list of parts on the store website. The picture online of the Pack does not show the allen wrench. In the Assembly video a long handle allen wrench is shown in the power Pack. I did not get a long handled allen wrench in my kit. As things progressed in this step, I very much wish that long handled allen wrench was included.
That small allen wrench included in the motor kit was difficult for my large arthritic hands to operated in the close quarter of the assembled engine pod. Before I do another kit, if i do, i will have one of those long wrenches.
To mount the motor I used the medium length screws. There are two larger motor mount holes in the firewall and two smaller holes. There are also four motor mount holes in the back of the motor. So I need to use four screws-right? Wrong!. After much trial and error, fumbling and dropping and some more of those blue words, I am not allowed to use around the grand daughter, i discovered only two screws are required to mount the motor. The second pair of smaller holes in the firewall do not aligned with the holes in the motor.
I tried to find the part in the video that tells which way the prop get mounted. Writing forward or writing to firewall? Bushing installed on shaft first then prop? I could use advice here.
So this is where I am right now. This took me about about an hour and a half to build. I was taking pictures as i went and editing them on the computer and reshooting the pictures until good. The issue of mounting the motor probably took 45 minutes by itself. I am doing this build on the dining room table. I had to make several trips to the shop looking for my set of metric allen wrenches and revisit to find a pair of miniature long needle nose pliers. Plus crawling around on the floor looking for screws that went flying. Working over carpet helps
It takes longer to do things when you don't know what you are doing.
Next step fuselage.