Dear Cam, I thoroughly enjoy my Slow Stick It's easy to fly as well as easy to assemble. I bought a 3 channel Hitec single stick. Buy the FM radio for about $85 complete with 2 HS50 servos and a feather receiver. I also bought two of the batteries recommended by GWS and the recommended speed control. Two batteries $23.00 apiece, speed control $22.00, since he airplane is complete for $35.00. A few bucks for shipping or sales tax and you have a very fun-fly airplane.
Some day you will want to build and fly a 1/4 scale warbird but that is certainly no place to start. Stick with the Slow Stick (pun intended)