I made and planted a bunch of puff ball trees today:
A hundred down, only a couple thousand to go. [:D]
Here’s an earlier scene of WS trees, and furnance filter pines:
Nick
The colors look really nice…but the trees around the tunnel are all the same shape. The ones in the 2nd pic look really nice. If you can reshape the ones around the tunnel, I think it might be more realistic. Just a thought.
That rock around the tunnel entrance looks very sharp, you did nice work there.
If you’re like me, you cover the whole area in basic scenery first, then gradually detail it over the course of several months. If that’s the plan, you are well on your way. Some things you might try, (I “audition” scores of different looks before actually gluing one down or painting for final effect), giving the front row trees actual trunks, in some cases but not all, and varying the size of a few trees. Then for final detailing, you might pluck some small bits of color from one tree, and add them to another tree of a different color. Even in a forest of all the same trees, there is color variation from tree to tree, and even from branch to branch, especially in the fall.
I suspect you are very much relieved to have that area covered with trees, a big improvement over a painted surface. Don’t get too bummed over the bazillions of trees still to go, make a portable tree factory that you can put away and haul out as needed, and knock off a few batches when the spirit moves you. A little cheating, some extra cliffs, a building or two, a grassy glade here and there, water features, etc, and the trees will be done before you know it.
Looking good, keep it coming.
Thanks for the comments.
In the hilly/mountainous regions of the Mid-Atlantic, you rarely see tree trunks. Even right down a track level.
For some reason pictures tend to make all the puff balls look the same, but I did vary the height and width of the trees.
Nick