I have built several planes from short kits, but all were covered with iron on covering. I am looking for recommendations on what would be a good first plane to build that is covered with sheeting and painted? I don’t want to buy prebuilt as my teenage son and I enjoy the build time together. We are in no way experts and learn new things with each build. This next one we will even cut ourselves “with a short kit if available” in the closet just in case.

would like something with retracts maybe as we have never done retracts before.

Thanks in advance for the advice. We want to work our way up to a scale jet.