Chevelle, Get a Proctor kit to start off with. They are very well engineered and will give you the building skills to design your own models. Do one of the Neiuports or the Eindecker. The Eindecker has wing warping for roll control and lots of rigging and turnbuckles. The initail cost of the kits is not cheap but include almost everything you need to build it. The Eindecker has all the turnbuckles, Williams wheels and Spandau machinegun. Plus its a monoplane so you only have to build one wing. Four-stroke engines are the way to go. A Saito 1.50 would fly the Eindecker just fine. Don