Hey thanks for the link to Paul Johnson's site. A ton of great information there!

Here's an update: I went to my first club meeting last night and met up with a very experienced pilot & builder. It turns out he lives close to where I live and he is going to "take-me-under-his-wing" and help me learn to fly my trainer and I've got someone to help me in the building department as well when I start building something. We didn't have much time to B.S. last night at the meeting, but he gave me his card and told me to contact him in the next week or so and he said he'll be "building-like-crazy" this winter. Can't wait to get my plane in the air with him buddy-box training me and I feel like I've got a go-to-guy to turn to for advice on my first build project. I'm not sure yet what that is going to be, but I'll pick his brain on the matter and then get a kit going. The Sig Somethin'-Extra sure seems like a good place to start.

The other really great thing about the meeting last night is one of the "ol-timers" brought in a whole slew of large pictures of his life's work building scale model airplanes. THere must have been 20 or so different planes and man, his stuff was truely amazing and very inspiring. I wish I would have caught his name...

Thanks again everyone for the feedback.