Thank you!
All the pieces have been sanded, of course, till they get smooth; I use sandpaper of different grits for this purpose.
Yes, the aging process is related to the entire model but with different gradations, depending upon the part the I'm treating. For instance deks have been treated in a very light mode otherwise they get dark. You also have to consider the essence you are working with: cherry wood is lovely to work with, it allows to do whatever you want, meanwhile maple is completely different, must be very careful with it.
Anyway my taste is to be very discreet with aging because when it is too much evident, although you make a professional treatment, it looks false.
For finishing I always use oil and wax only because with synthetic varnish it looks like plastic material and I hate plastic
About nails, you have to refer to reality and calculate the scale: in reality diameter nails was between 2 and 3 cm.; they were of different type depending upon the part to be nailed, so in 1:48 scale diameter should be between 0.4 - 0.6.
Anyway, the most important suggest is the following: albeit you can find high quality kits, none of them is perfect and detailed as they should be, so if you want to make a quality model, it is mandatory to help yourself with some good modelship monographies; thereafter you will find that monographies too are not always correct, so often you are requested to add a bit of yourself while modeling and to do this you have to know your subject.
