For us, a big part of getting ready was setting up our workspace, getting materials and finding the right tools. It would be nice if we could just sell all the tools at the end of the project, I am sure it would bring in enough cash to do a nice panel...  yah sure, that will never happen. I get the impression that a project is just an excuse to acquire more cool tools
Please tour Our Factory you will see what I mean about tools.

Vacuum Bagging
One thing that we started doing much later on in our building was a form of low cost, low vacuum, vacuum bagging. For lack of a better term we call it LoVac. Check it out