PerR

Thank you for your answer! I have watched the flyer from Slaters, and I like the details and the size of the sheets. I guess «Dressed stone» is the most suitable for building-walls? I find the sheets quite thin, but I guess I need to build the structures with thicker plain cards and then cover them with the Slaters afterwards? Is Slaters the brand with the best detailed products in 2 mm?

Thank you for your answer! I have seen the Ratio products, and I have bought some of them. They are not for sale here, but can be ordered from the UK. I think the Ratio-sheets for the wall are more likely to use for retaining walls etc than buildings. I might be wrong, but I get the impression that the stones are to big for house walls. The slates from Ratio are in quit small sheets, and I am looking for wider sheets to cover more roof in one piece.

I live in Norway and I am planning to model a small layout based on the Scottish west-coast region in N gauge. I can not find any available embossed plastikard in 2 mm useful for stonebuildings/-structures in Norwegian model-shops. I therefore have to order it from UK. Based on the webpictures, I can not figure what brands/ types of embossed plastikard are the best and most realistic for stone buildings. Are there any recommandations on what brands and types are the most detailed and realistic...? I also need the same type of recommandation for plastikard for slates to the roof of the buildings...?

Yes, and I look at the first pic in post 1, and count the fields in the truss bridge. I count 7-8 fields in the part of the bridge overhanging the canal it self. One field is about 2 meters if the bridge is 35 meters in total, and that makes the part of the bridge over the canal about 15 meters.

Then it is the overhang you need space for; 25 m = 32,89 cm in scale. If you, as you mentioned, compremize on the total lenght of the bridge and shorten it by max 4 meters, and model the canal in the prototypical angle to the railway, you will manage to be marginally within the width of the board.

The 35 meters is that the total of the bridge or just the overhang on the canal? On the pictures I see the the turntable underneath the bridge. If the total of the bridge is 35 m, then the turntable is about 10 m from the end and the overhang on the canal «only» 25 m. Then you will need space to turn the overhang on 25 m and not the entyre 35 m. Or am I missing something here…? The canal is also in an angle to the railway. This will be to your favour if you model the bridge with a view from the loch-side. It is a beautiful place you have chozen - good luck and best wishes!