Hmmmm...., the Dauntless from Halinski! A very good choice. I have this model on my to do pile as well and I fully agree with you, the pages are packed with parts and they are seemingly all over the place. It's good to properly study the pages in advance and funny to notice that you also set up an Excel sheet to bring order in the parts chaos, and equally important, to check if the part concerned is also indicated in an assembly drawing (which is not always the case...). There's a mismatch somewhere in the canopy numbers I remember.
Good luck with your build, I will definitely follow your progress. By the way, a very detailed report of the build of this model is available on Kartonbau.de:
https://www.kartonbau.de/forum/thema...33/#post354982
Regards,
Erik