welcome to the medium! I also started with the digital navy models.
I found the printed models by JSC very nice and not to complicated to build, in particular their smaller ships in 1/400 (and I always copy the models to build in card stoke in case I mess up; I still has the original).
1:400 - JSC (International webstore)
And our fellow Lou Coatney has a number of simple and free models (that you can dress up with the digital navy secondary weapons).
HMS Hardy H87 H-class destroyer leader - free! :-)
Lou Coatney's Military and Naval History Games, Writings, and Models
One of the beauties of paper modeling is that you chose your favorite scale and then enlarge or reduce to whatever you need. So digital has that advantage over printed.