Please apologize, this may be a stupid question... but I havent found a clear answer so far.
I have reached the state of issue #20 where I will be nailing planks for the first time.

What is irritating me are the images in Tomicks build diary
http://forum.model-space...s&m=12659#post12659
and in the magazine. It looks like one is NOT pushing the brass nails all the way through the plank and rather using them like pins. Are the beeing removed later on after the glue has set or am I supposed to cut of the heads of the nails in the end?

Sorry again, but this is still my very first wooden ship and I don't wanna screw it up.

THX Timm

Mr Q, you have a choice and it depends on the finish and result you are going for, be it painted or natural.

If going the painted route, the pins can be part inserted and then removed once the glue is dry and any remaining dimples in the wood filled.
Or the pins can be part inserted and the heads snipped off, though leaving the pin shanks in means your sanding of the hull is boing to need to be very good as obviously metal sands at a different rate to wood, where a number of shanks may be slightly raised and visible beneath paint, though if your going the natural route, the visibilty of pin shank heads may be a desired feature.

With some ingenious clamping you can of course secure the planking without having to pin at all and just use glue, and therefore no pin dimples to fill but its a longer process than the planking being held by pins.