Ben,
I too agree with all that's been said regarding learning to fly. It's much more difficult than it looks, or might seem. IF you've had untold hours of time on various really fast paced video games, including aircraft type sims, then I'd say you have a leg up on things. BUT it's still highly unlikely that you could easily learn by yourself, without crashing a number of times.

And that's with a trainer type plane. The Guillow's kits, while a few people have sucessfully converted them to RC, are going to be extremely difficult to fly becasue they are small and have a very high wing loading when converted to RC.

The most successful conversions were done by replacing much of the Guillows 'heavy' wood with lighter contest grade balsa, and then using magnetic actuators on the control surfaces rather than servos. We're talking about a few of grams rather than a couple of ounces for servos. The same is true for the receivers used. There are extremely small Rx's available (smaller and lighter than the GWS 4 channel), but they're expensive. The last time I saw pricing on this stuff the Rx and a couple of magnetic actuators were running in the $125 range. I imagine those prices have come down significantly, but I'm trying to point out the lengths people were having to go in order to make those kits "fly" reliably.

If you want to see good references to converting these things, or for electric microflight in general, try EZone. The site specializes in electrics and has micro, foamie, and park flyer forums. All of which would provide valuable info on what's needed to do that conversion.

Good luck, Welcome to RCU, and above all, HAVE FUN!
Dennis-