RE: First-time kit to build?
If you are looking for a good kit for your first build the hands down winner has to be the Sig Something Extra. It is one of the best engineered easiest to build kits that I have ever built. I have built 3 of them so far and the last one that I did I was able to have it framed out in a weekend. A joke I like to make about this kit is you open the box, throw in a bottle of glue, close the top, shake the box, open the box, and remove the finished plane. Seriously though, you can't go wrong with this kit. The instruction manual is very complete and descriptive with lots of pictures. And all of the parts are laser cut so they almost just fall out of their sheets.
And to top it all off, when you are finished you have a plane that is just a total blast to fly!!!
Hope this helps
Ken