RE: Suggestions for first build
Sounds to me like you're in much the same positon I was this time last year, though I had more building experience with building perhaps. I loved getting going again with GP's PT-40 and the flying experience with the high wing. I ended up building both and A and B wing version (high and low degrees of dihedral. Still fly it a lot and even think of building a third version with even less di-hedral. Great Planes and Sig are my favorite new builder kits. Great Planes instructions can't be beat. BOL Blue