The Great Planes Easy Sport .40 is available in either ARF or kit form, and it is essentially an "ugly stik" variant with a bubble canopy on the wing. Great Planes kits, like Sig and Goldberg, offer detailed instructions and photos and are usually well suited for the beginning builder. The Rapture .40 kit is another good suggestion, as is the Four Star and Mid Star. Oh, and the Tiger 2/Tiger 60 kits. You could also think about the Lanier Fun Fly 40 kit.

Most any of these would seem to be better choices than the Duraplane Durastick kit. Planes that are specifically designed to be "crashable" usually don't fly anywhere near as well as planes that are simply designed to fly well.

You will also want to avoid the Balsa USA 1/4 scale Fokker DR-1 Triplane kit. That is more a project for sometime down the road.