Hey everyone:
I have been on the side lines for a while so I figured I would throw in my 2 cents on trees.
I love & hate them. Love to admire great work on other layouts, and Hate the fact that I have had difficulty duplicating that beauty.
Some recent luck I have had is with a combination of real twigs, a bag of super trees, a bottle of Hobby tech, and my airbrush. (Sometimes adding a bottle of Jim Beam into the mix helps as well.
Looks like I am slowly turning the “tree corner” I will get some pics up as soon as I can figure out how. Does anyone else have any techniqes that has worked for them?
After 25+ years in the hobby, I’ve yet to really turn onto the tree building street so you are further along than I am. Let’s see some pics and share your methods for those of us who want to know…
I’ve done a bit of work on adding foliage to skeleton trees… the wire skeleton is fairly easy… what makes good foliage? I’ve tried accoustic wadding from speakers from sound systems… it’s like lambs wool when teased out but synthetic (so it doesn’t rot), I think that it’s fire resistant and it can be spray painted to colours.
I got into this 'cos I noticed that (from below) what makes a tree isn’t the solid stuff but the light coming through… other way up (we see most models from above) we should not be looking at the tree but through to the ground underneath… okay… so lots of thick tree means less ground… and lots of trees mean looking though layers of trees… BUT trees are “see through”… I think that that is the secret.
Good luck… please let us know how you get on.
Oh yeah… don’t bother to try to achieve someone else’s trees… do your own.