Hello,
I'm about to start with the hobby, planning to buy my first car very soon. In the months until then I'm going to research on the net equipment and techniques needed. This is by far not easy.
I was very surprised how difficult it is to find reliable and well founded information so far. (And I have plenty of experience finding information I need online.) My plan is to start a couple of threads asking detailed beginner questions and then consolidate the results in a thread documenting developing a basic entry kit.