1:35 Dlažební kostky velké - žula

A street on which every wheel can be heard

Granite paving belonged to a European town as naturally as street lighting. The large stone was the basic format of main thoroughfares and approach roads: it carried the weight of trucks, stood up to frost and salt, and when repairs were needed it could be lifted out and laid back. Under the tracks of an armored vehicle it gleams differently from concrete, and it is exactly that difference that makes a scene legible.

How much area you will cover

The contents of the package are enough for roughly fifteen by ten centimeters. In 1:35 that corresponds to a strip of real roadway measuring approximately five and a quarter by three and a half meters, that is, one traffic lane with a piece of sidewalk, or the whole width of a narrow old-town lane.

The size of an individual stone

The large format measured around sixteen centimeters along an edge in reality, which in reduction comes out at roughly five millimeters. That is still a size the fingers can manage, but tweezers pay off when laying all the same: the rows have to keep their direction, otherwise the eye sees at once that the paving has slipped somewhere. It is laid into a thin layer of filler or glue, which fills the joints and at the same time lifts the individual pieces to slightly different heights - unevenness is what gives the surface life.

The coloring of granite

Granite is not gray in a single tone. Light and dark grains alternate in it, years of traffic polish it smooth, and dust collects between the joints. A base gray coat is therefore only the beginning; it is stippling and thin glazes that finally turn it into stone.