After getting some guidence from a model railroading friend I have assembled my first 4 trees for my layout. The armatures are made from witches broom strands, the foliage is from Woodland Scenics and the glue is Hob-e-Tac from Woodland scenics.
Four down and about 360 to go
Great start. If you only plan to do 364 of these trees, what are you going to do for the rest of them?
By “witches broom strands,” do you mean a corn broom? Real not synthetic type brissels.
How do you get the branches to curve without breaking?
Nice work, thanks for sharing.
Those are some nice looking trees! [tup]
-George
Yes I believe that is what they are. Around here you only see them in stores around Halloween, hence the witches broom connotation. They are mostly naturally curved with a little help from me. here is an image of what was used.
Nice work Bob. Thanks for the idea for a source of armatures. It will be interesting to see your completed “forest”.
Joe
I think those trees look good to me. Try some different shades of green on the trees. Do you paint the armatures?? Only 1000’s to go right?
Those are excellent trees. I agree that using varying shades of scenery material will help. Some have good results with using a slightly darker color for the overall base and lighter shades to top the branches.
Joe Fugate will lightly air brush/ dust the canopy top w/ a hint of yellow. This will simulate sunlight hiting the tre tops. I will hit w/ hair spray and sprinkle on the yellow grasses.
Noch offers some very good leaf products that also can be used as a final topping material.
They look great, but if I could offer a way to enhance them further…
Spray glue on top of your foliage (from the top).
Sprinkle on light covered foliage.
Turn the tree upside down and spray dark green.
The result is highlights/lowlights where they belong. Right now you have a uniform color that doesnt exsist in nature.
David B
I think they look great. I would’nt worry too much about color since you can vary the next 360 or so.