RE: Good beginner kit
If you are looking to learn to build, maybe you might look at a Sig Kadet. They take more work, but they are worth every muniute.
Depending on your size limits for your shop and car for transport there is the larger Kadet Senior, or the smaller Seniorita I built. Being mostly stick construction, you will have to really build it ALL yourself. Other kits, such as the Sig LT40, or LT25 which have solid side fuselage are faster to build. The wings are basically the same effort. All these mentioned are excelent trainers and fun to build and report very good flying.