Red BARon,
If you're a newbie to flight the last thing you want to be starting out with is a "stick and tissue"
plane. You're better off with something like an RTF slow stick or a foamy model. Much more forgiving.
Don't waste your time building a plane that will crush itself and your hopes on it's first not so perfect landing. Wait till you have some air time before trying this.
But on that note, I did the P38 Lightning, Needed a looooooong runway for take off, and as long as it was going WOT it would fly, something about the way Guillows designs the wing, more so for esthetic's, then for flight. And yes you need to make the plane as light as possible, and as little drag as possible.
Welcome to the Addiction.
BJ