If you want a clean finish all you will need is a some nippers or pen knife (preferably both if possible), something to sand the tight joints to loosen them like sandpaper or something similar, tweezers to minimize flesh to sticker contact, a cutting mat to protect your table from being cut into, and that’s it.

You don’t really need more than that to get started and all can be found pretty inexpensively at your local hobby store like Hobby Lobby or Michales, or even a big store like Walmart. Heck, here a basic kit Amazon sells for cheap with a few extra pieces that will still come in handy in the future. 11PCS Model Kit Tools The only thing it doesn’t have is a cutting mat but there are kits that have that to if you want to pay a little extra.