im 17 aswell m8 and yeah the money really doesnt role in when your at college....
anyways, my advice from experience, always buy second hand and as a rule buy off these forums.Lots of nice friendly ppl letting their equipment go at silly prices (half of retail :O) sumtimes if you buy many items at once of the same person they give you discounts
And as a rule try dont buy off ebay...
Again from experience i bought a JT Excellerator for £150 (spyder clone so not brilliant) off ebay....thought i was getting a good deal till i saw the same thing going on here for £80 inc postage :/
i remember thinking i couldve got an Angel LED for £150!
My advice, if you dig around
£150 should get you an Angel LED (reliable,fast,good looking
)
£60-80 for a 3k psi preset tank
£25 for some flex 7's (anti fog thermal lenses)
£25 for a Revvy (VL revolution @ 12bps)
and your sorted!