Howdy David,
Welcome to the forum, we are glad a found us!. I think you will find quite abit of help here, some directly on this forum and some in the form of links to other sites with information.
But for friendly people to post your thoughts and your model photos and get feedback you are in the right place.
I am going to give you a general link that covers tips for all types of models, a site that I just found out, recently added this site to their list of "forum links". The Link I am giving you has tips about most anything you could want for all types of models (Except card models, although I got them to post a link to that forum also). So, here ya go,
http://www.craigcentral.com/modelmain.asp look over this site and then be sure to come back here. We have a search feature at the top of the page that you can use for specific information, just type in what you are looking for and it with show it to you.
And while you are here, let us know what types of models you are interested in, then we can be abit more specific with helping you.
Have a good day,
Greg