Brought many of the parts for the project home – it’s much easier for me to work in my shop, where I have all of the tools and ventilation that I need to work efficiently.
Spent a couple of hours soldering wires and EC3 connectors – these are little gold bullet type connectors – to the Electronic Speed Controls (ESCs) and motors.  Lots of fiddly cutting, soldering, and twisting of wires, but I made good progress, finishing all 8 of the ESCs and enough motors for one of the ELEV-8s.  I may just push through and try and get the rest of the motors wired up, as once this task is completed I can set to work assembling the airframe.
Still waiting on the batteries, video transmitter and POV camera – hopefully that stuff will show up next week some time.