You may be in for more challenge than you expect with the progression you describe.

Personally, I was making what I considered useable takeoffs and landings when I left engines behind and took up gravity power. When I returned to conventional power a couple years later, I'd thouroughly adjusted to greasing a glider in on its belly... and all that stuff hanging under the regular airplane really got in the way. I nearly ripped the undercarriage off of a couple of other people's planes and a power plane approach still doesn't look quite right to me.

For a scale plane, the T-Craft should be very docile, but I'd still consider some time on a trainer type trainer first if it was me. (I assume you have no access to instrucion? You don't mention what kind of gliders you've flown, but the powered plane will be a handful compared to, say, an RES ship.)