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Chilling wort to lager pitch temperatures (mine is at 5 Celsius), is challenging. There are numerous ways of doing this. Many will involve ice cubes in water. I was lucky enough getting hold of a Cornelius Maxi 310 from ebay for about £90 (in 2010). The resulting setup ended up being a...

For lager a cold fermentation schedule does wonders (8-10C). Pending on a few factors, like oxygen at pitch, vitality, cell count, fermenter shape, pressure, OG, the primary fermentation should be complete within two weeks max. Usually the temperature is a bell curve with a slight plateau...

I am from "abroad" (Bavaria). Radler is Helles + Lemonade. How comfortable are you in making either? I doubt that a kit will get you there when it comes to Helles ;)

A classis approach is 90% Pilsner Malt with 10% Vienna. Ensure your dry yeast has good viability. I use liquid yeast, pitch at 5-6 Celsius and Ferment at 9 Celsius with Imperial Harvest mostly.