Yeah some good advice there. I too am a realtive newb to all this but I will suggest that if you are at all serious about conquering nose-in hovering then I couldn;t recommend a flight sim like realflight more than enough! In less than a month on the sim I have got the all hovering aspects sorted out, forward flight, rolls and loops. Now of course this is all on the sim and I too gutless at this point to try it for real but I am still gobsmacked at how fast I have advanced just from the sim alone.
Everyone will tell you that nose-in hover is probably the hardest of the basics to master but all I can suggest is persist, persist, persist! Try and really push yourself out of your boundries. I basically started forward flight as soon as I could reasonably hold a tail-in hover and whilst it was dam hard and very frustrating, practising figure 8's constantly pretty much trains your brain to the ever changing orientation of the heli. I just kept doing it & doing it and before long you will be nose-in hovering and not even realise you're actually doing it. The other thing that helped was once in control of a tail-in hover I started practising piroettes and this too will make you adjust to the orientation pretty quick smart. It will all eventually come naturally as your brain becomes a customed to the different orientations of the heli and the way the controls change. That fact that you are capable of FF and firgure 8s means that you are not far off mastering nose-in hovering. It takes time but you need extreme patience thats all.