aboard! Hope you enjoy your time here.
As for tools...you could seriously get a pretty good start with little more than 'household' items (other than adhesives and paints, which tend to be a bit more hobby-specific). A few to consider:
*single-edge razor blades or nail clippers to cut parts neatly from sprues
*rubber bands, clothespins or paper-holding clampy things to hold parts together while gluing/drying
*a good pair of tweezers -- my favorites are cross-lock needle-pointed ones -- for handling small parts
*a small assortment of sandpaper grades -- or emery boards used for nail care, an excellent alternative -- for removing stubs from parts once removed from the parts trees, cleaning up molding seams from parts, and for sanding glued seams on assembled parts
*a hobby knife of some sort -- like a basic #11 X-acto knife -- is useful not only for precision cutting, but also excellent for scraping the mold seams from parts
*depending on your age and eyesight...good general lighting, and some kind of magnification such as an 'Optivisor' (or the cheaper Harbor Freight knockoff version I use) will make things much easier
*as a first 'non-household' item, you might consider a good-sized 'cutting mat' for your main work surface. It'll cut down on furniture scars and things like glue/paint spills that are always troublesome to clean up
I think most of us started with just that kind of stuff. As you get more experience, you'll better figure out what upgrades you'd like. (Also, if you start looking through catalogs, websites and/or modeling magazines, you'll see...and probably yearn for...enough cool tools to float the GDP of a small country. It goes with the territory. 
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As folks above have indicated, feel free to ask questions. We're all enthusiastic...and love to yap...so you'll find a lot of advice if you ask. And sometimes if you don't ask. 
Most importantly...have FUN.
Cheers