RE: First Kit suggestions
If you feel that way and you do have some help then you may as well buy one of the Top Flight Gold Edition kits of your choice except maybe the F4U. Very good instructions. I found the hardest part of the build is installing the retracts. The gold editions go together very well. It depends a lot on how well you can follow instructions. I know people that could build one for a first kit and I know people that will never be able to build one. A lot depends on yourself.
They aren't my first choice but it sounds like you want to build one anyway, go for it!!!