Douglas G

I think those are some of the best 2mm scale broad leaved trees I have seen. The openness of the branches so you can see through is very realistic and also the leaves are very convincing.

Great job!

I am looking at the Finetrax option at the moment as well, and sympathise with your quandary, Rob.

In the thread about Finetrax some time ago, I raised the question of whether the gaps at the crossovers were as wide as in Peco Code 55, and was told that this appearance was an optical illusion. Will modern N gauge wheels actually drop on a Finetrax point, as seems to be implied above? If not, there is no advantage to 2mm FS in this respect, and the main advantage of 2mm scale is the slightly finer flangeways. Am I right about that?

To me the issue with 2mm FS is that if you convert commercial N models, as opposed to building your own stock to 2mm scale, the wheels will still not be the correct scale gauge for the model, unlike with P4 conversions. Plus the cost of the replacement wheelsets, as you say Rob, is a major consideration.

One extra cost with Finetrax I was wondering about is if you have wagons with Peco plastic wheels. These may have to be replaced by finer flanged metal wheels to get good running, I think, especially the older solid, non-spoked wheels, which seem to have bigger flanges than the spoked ones.

Douglas