Does anyone have the name of a good brand to use and a source for the type of filters that are used to make fir trees? Seems all of the box stores only have the thin 30 day kind or the plastic weave.
Thanks in advance
ratled
I get mine at Wal Mart. They are about 1" thick and blue with no frame around them. Don’t know the brand name.
I recently had to try about 3 Walmarts to find any. They had two and I bought them both. Last year I found them at a different WM. I don’t remember that there was a brand, but they are “natural fiber”. I asked a couple of clerks and they did not even know they had them. In the Walmarts I did find them, they were really hidden in the furnace filter section. Building the trees is easier than finding the filters.
I have seen them at WalMart and at Canadian Tire in Canada, so the brand, whatever its name, must have a reasonably wide distribution. Perhaps phone some big box stores that should sell that kind of thing and as a floor rep if they carry the blue natural fiber furnace filters. Will save some gas and aggravation. Agg…Aggro Jones! Look for a thread on Aggro trees in the search function, if you haven’t already seen it. He does good stuff, and posted a how-to nearly three years ago now.
Found some at my local Ace hardware store with their brand name. Clerk said it was natural fiber. Haven’t had a chance to try it yet. They are white.
Good luck,
What part of the country are you in? In the Pacific NW, McClendon’s Hardware sells the blue 1" thick furnace filter by the foot… works great.
Brian
Thanks guys!!! First Walmart had 'em 20" X 30" X 1" for $3.77 each. Working on version 2.0 now. I did see Arrgo’s post and a reallyinterting one on the Atlas forum.
thanks again
ratled
I got mine at Home Depot here in California. They’re natural fibre, dyed blue and about one inch thick. If I remember correctly, the measurements were about 18x24" More than enough to make a forest–I’m still using my flat of fibre after constructing about 70 or so trees. I used Argo’s technique for forming the trees, but substituted a thicker foliage material since I’m modeling Fir trees instead of pine. But the material works really well.
Tom
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Dis one here. I really don’t know the brand name of the filter, but you’ll recognize it when you see it. Dark blue, fiberous mat thing.
I was able to pick them up at a local hardware store. I posted a “How To” called “Tree Technique” this past week. I stain the blue filters “flat black”, with a spray can, cut out the rough circles for deciduous trees (or jagged circles for fir trees), and press them on brown stained wooden meat skewers (that are pressed into holes drilled into 3" deep styrofoam, for support during construction). I like to then squeeze glue in a circle and apply connifer colored clumps of SceniKing sponge foam. One can use a coffe bean grinder to grind up the green foam used by florists, or spray styrofoam green after it has been ground up. Bob Hahn