Traded 3 Atkins Quick Cuisine Muffin Mixes for it. There enough here to make several hundred 12-15" trees.
But the twisted wire trunk looks nothing like a fir tree. How do I fix that?
Have a Redwood grove planned 24" trees with 1 1/2 trunks. Heck might even put in a drive-through tree.
Modelling clay. Then paint brown, add additional highlights as desired - for foreground trees, more detail is needed. For ones way at the back, probably not worth the effort, no one will see them.
–Randy
That’s what my wife said. Please don’t tell her I admitted she was right. [:-^]
I’m happier I was right… if it involves any sort of artistic talent, it’s not for me. But I seem to recall reading about using modelling clay in one or more of the books I have.
–Randy
For pines made from plastic Christmas trees, you’ll want to apply a little green spray paint and foam after trimming the branches.Ideally this will disguise the twisted-wire center sufficiently–and the base will be inserted into a hole in your layout and covered with glue. If a tree is mostly trunk, clay can be used to disguise wire-based trees…in fact one old technique is to twist bits of wire into a treelike shape, cover with clay, scribe in bark, paint it gray (Look outside! Most tree bark is GRAY, not brown!) and add foliage.