Hello there.. Newbie here from Lincolnshire, UK

Welcome David. It is very wonderful to have you join us all here.

I'll also suggest that you may want to get your feet wet with a couple of more basic kits. At least until your comfortable with the fundamentals of modeling. Stick around here and your skills will develop quickly and marvelously. No better place to find help and learn.

Joe

O it is fun, and a little frustrating, but thats all part of the fun

Thank you for the warm welcome everyone. Just had a nice surprise yesterday, looking around a local charity shop, found a Red Arrows Hawk 1:72 airfix for a £2. Excellent! Bought the B-17 Memphis Belle 1:72 Revell from my local Hobbycraft. It's still a work in progress, bought it's something to take my time over, and enjoy over a long time. Best thing about this hobby, I suppose, you can't rush anything. So I have taken it out of the box, stuck a couple of things together. Put it back in the box... took it out again... put it back... No rush.. Ha ha. I haven't even started with the painting yet... from looking at all your expert posts on this forum, it's an art form in itself. Looks like fun though.

Welcome to the forums!

Welcome to the Forums David!  Glad to have you aboard!

That's some wish list.  My  (for what it's worth) is to start out slow and work your way up as your skills increase (and they will very quickly if you stick around here). Not really a good idea to buy very expensive kits only to get disappointed at the results. Been there and done that until coming here and learning a LOT. Make sure to post pics so the members can see how you're doing and how to help you with any questions/problems that you might have. 

I've been building for 69 of my 75 years and enjoyed every minute of it (well almost every minute, there was that time back in..........................).  I think you get the idea.

Hang in there and enjoy.

Jim  

Welcome aboard,Great Wall makes a great 1/48  Mig 29 

Welcome David! You have a great looking wish list there. Love the excitement you show for the hobby. As for the 5 Level kit. You can always give it a shot and put it on the back burner if it gets to be too much. But there are lots of folks here that are more then willing to help out if you have questions. My skill level shot up exponentially when I started here on the forums. Superior builders here all will crazy cool skill sets! Welcome aboard! Eagle90

Welcome aboard.

Welcome to the Forums!