Hi all,
I want to model some fresh growth birch trees growing through cutover land. The trees would be small in real life (less than 4" trunk diameter) and I’m not particularly sure how to get something like that in scale that looks like paperbirch still. My initial thought was maybe using paperbirch armatures that are scaled for N scale?
If anyone has any advice it’d be appreciated.
Thanks!
Here’s a YouTube piece about how to identify paper birch that might be useful in IDing alternative constructions:
Hi there. I live in an area where there are many birch trees, both white and yellow birch. When they are small, their bark doesn’t look very different from those of other decidious trees. The bark is still grayish and becomes more white (or yellowish for yellow birch) as they mature. At our MR club, we have a few mature white birch trees (HO scale). They were made before my time, but you can see that the bark was painted white, with tiny black dots painted on them. They look quite good.
Simon
My trees are a constant work in progress. I use wire for my HO trees and they don’t look too bad. I have now grown Sea Foam and suspect they will be even better when I get around to trying birch trees.
Here are some pics of early efforts just using wire. I dip the trunks in Mold Builder to hide the wire, however in N scale you may not need to do that as the wire will be so fine.
Check out Boomer Diorama. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3W0l38SLJw&t=772s
Looks real good, Brent.
Rich
I suppose those on my N scale layout would be Young Birch Giganta Trees. Those are quite big.
