Um well, hey welcome first!......now when I returned after 25 years, I built a basic old monogram SBD and just brush painted it like I used to do.........then I subscribed to FSM and that's when I started saving articles, searching the web for all the latest techniques, new paints, kit reviews, and reading the forums, asking the dumb questions and everybody is pretty helpful here. I just don't post that much that much.
Sometimes overwhelming to see the work that shows up on these posts, but wow too!
If I were you, I'd review a bunch of the posts in the model car section and see what's going on.......Take your best shot, see what works, see what mistakes you make and go from there.....
Matt