RE: Pattern plane
Hello,
since it is just your second airplane, I would focus on a low wing ailleron trainer with a thick symmertical airfoil. That will do a good job to practice the basic pattern manouvers. You can be amised how much you can do with those models. Maybe the knife-edge manouvers are more difficult to fly.
If you master that plane, than I would start to think to something more pattern.
Just my oppinion