Conventional wisdom (and numerous YouTube videos) dictates that the first thing to do is read the manual thoroughly then sort every part out into little piles, prior to attempting to build anything. However under pressure from my assistant we search out the parts for the figures first. He wants to find Anakin Skywalker (he is new school). After a careful explanation of how Obi-Wan, Luke and Leia fit in and that we are not going to find Anakin in the box he is content to settle for assembling the five figures that are actually supplied.
This gives us the opportunity to familiarise ourselves with the 5195 (five thousand + !) pieces that make up the kit. I really don't want this stuff all over the study so our technique will be to only open the bags we need to assemble each sub-component. Knowing my assistant won't stand for making some boring sub-structure parts we dive straight into building the radar dish assembly. The slight spanner to this plan is that there is no logical sorting to the packets e.g.; unlike other Lego kits all the related parts for the Falcon are spread all across the kit somewhere.
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