Talk given as part of the European XFEL Users' Meeting 2015. Topics include: solvation dynamics using the FXE instrument; fundamental timescales; combine complementary structural tools; simultaneous techniques at the FXE instrument; Axis Strategy (pink and monochromatic); overall design of FXE instrument; optics bench and sample environment; von Hamos delivered to XFEL; next component: Flat Sheet Jet (1-100 um); optics branch and sample.