For those of you that want a lot of pine trees on your layout, but don’t want to spend a lot of money, check your local Hobby Lobby in their Christmas decoration department. They have bags of HO and N scale trees for like a $1.29 each. Each bag contains about eight or ten trees depending on their size. Each tree has a round wooden base that can be easily removed. For those that want a winter scene, you’re in luck because they’re already frocked with snow, but for those of you that don’t, you can always spray paint them with olive drab green paint, at least that’s what I did and they turned out great!.
I haven’t tried them yet but you can see them on his pics. Very nice looking and EXTREMELY inexpensive. I think you can make a whole slew of trees for just $1.29.
I made some Aggro trees and they are simple and easy to make, the only difference is i could not find the same filter matt so i used a fibre plant hanging basket liner instead, worked for me.
Thanks Tom, but that’s just a little too much work for me… Not only that, but I’m an N scaler, and to try and make N scale trees is murder!. Like my old saying goes - only if I have to. However, I have to admit though that the AggroJones trees look really great.
Any fiberglass filter for home AC will work, will be blue or grey, looks like stringy spun fiberglass.
What is so trick with these trees is the variation one can build. Looking at Western Pines, the outer ones are allmost bare on the sunny side, only 1/4 on the top has branches, make the inner trees narrower and any pine left out of the grouping, standing alone will be Christmas tree like with a wide base. I also splinter some squerers to make a broken off tree (Lighting strike) or cut the top off at an angle as if it was topped out so it would not grow up into utility lines.
Yep Aggro you trees are quick to build, thanks again for this fantastic method you shared with us…take care…John
As far as the N gaugers, I use a tooth picks to make smaller track side trees or new growth trees
Sorry to throw a blanket on the fire here folks, but as stated by AggroJones in that article, that method did not originate with him. In fact, I can’t find any difference between what his article recommends and any number of articles on making furnace filter trees that predate his post by months and sometimes years.
The more generic name for this type of tree is furnace filter tree. The earliest article in this website’s index of magazines that mentions this method was by Gail M. Holland in the Model Railroader for April 1980. The article is “Furnace Filter Forests.”