My Layout, so far (pix)

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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Archie, and others, thanks so much for your approval. Some of the trees,those hgher up that are clearly minature “Christmas trees” are from a Danish manufacturer, but I don’t have the name any longer. The loftier, most realistic ones are…who else…Aggro-trees. A very few (the scraggliest) are WS, but the fault lies with the Elmers spray glue that I used. I will eventually redo them. The 3M Super 77 is much a better adhesive (BUT DON"T USE IT INDOORS: IT IS NOT GOOD TO INHALE). Also, I used a bush from in front of our house for some of the deciduous trees that you see, the ones that aren’t quite right.

I tried a little of everything If you’d like to tackle bush branch ends, take them from a bu***hat has symmetrical tips with branches in several directions. Most trees are not suitable. Take them in the dormant season when you can see them leafless (for those of us who actually get a winter).

Cheers.

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Hahaha Crandall that tree situation sounds VERY familiar, I kept trying all different tree types and methods till I was kind of satisfied, I went from WS armatures with poly fibre to twigs (no,no,no), to lichen and Aggro’s trees, the list went on, I ended up with about 200 trees but I wasnt happy with any of them (except Aggro’s pines).

I think I’ve now got about four types I am happy with (cant afford/justify to try the ‘SE supertrees’ yet), Aggro’s pine, my ‘berry sprig’ trees, WS with lichen(from Michaels not WS) and a few poly fibres(man those things take tooooo long to make) so planting has finally commenced in earnest. Anyway sorry for the babble your comment just rang true for me, I’m off to check out your new pics.

Have fun & be safe,
Karl.