Abrams, Wow how did this happen? All us so called experts chime in with great suggestions, a Goldberg tiger, a Sig 4- star, a stick, a Cub, and the consensus pick of the "experts" was a Sig 4-Star 120 was the ideal choice. So you pick an Extra 300? You know, maybe that's not as crazy as it first seems. Last year we had a young teenage newbee in one of my clubs decide to do his first kit build after just learning to fly and only two or three ARF's. He chose a great Planes extra 300, the 40 size not the 60 your'e looking at but still the same plane. Guess what, he was successful. He did a great job building and covering it, and best of all.....IT FLEW! He had a build thread on here and a search should pull it up if you want to see what he ran into. If a teen can do it so can you. To paraphrase someone else here on RCU, to build a kit "all you do is glue all the sticks together, then sand off everything that doesn't look like an airplane!". Great Planes kits are nice with very good instructions. Best of luck.