Any advice on obtaining scale tree and shrub scenery for an N scale layout.
Sorry I cannot help you, but I did not know trees had a height. The ones in our garden just grow and grow.
My layout is N and I was never satisfied with the trees and shrubs being sold, so I learned to make them myself. It’s a lot cheaper and more satisfying.
These were made with small twigs and Woodland Scenics foliage. It’s kind of messy to make them, but to me they’re more realistic than any I saw ready made.
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Are you looking at getting natural materials you can find outside around your house or commercial products? I have found “branch” material for HO scale trees works well for N scale. There are a variety of manufacturers…I have used JTT branches, as they are readily available at the Hobby Lobby near my house. You can also scratchbuild with stranded wire and clump foliage or Supertrees. For pine trees, I’ve used Woodland Scenics and JTT spruce trees (had to order off Amazon). And you can scratch these as well with skewers and clump foliage. There are a variety of other manufactures and often time you can trim down HO trees to make multiple n scale trees. The key is keeping things appropriately sized, usually less than 6 inches in height, though some would argue 4 inches.
Clump foliage and coarse ground foam does a great job for bushes amd underbrush.
An assortment of JTT branches (aspens) and spruce, Woodland Scenics (pine), and scratchmade aspens (lighter yellow).
JTT branches and spruce with a variety of clump foliage for the underbrush.
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Is that N scale? I look at Woodland Scenics and cant get anything clear that says N scale
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No scale definition on the package,i’ll see if i got a pic of a label for you
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I look for trees in the 1.5” to 3” range. Figuring scale size that’s 20 to 40 ft.
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A few different flavors but i really like this color for Nscale,the smaller the scale the lighter the shade of paints/scenery i was taught and hold dearly.
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Welcome to the forum, Rick_Franklin!
I agree – none of my trees are more than three inches, with most between two to three.
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See the developing thread on seafoam trees. You could probably arrest their development very early by using polyvinyl alcohol or other material applied to the roots to make them fixed but still flexible.
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Welcome to the forum!
You don’t even need to arrest their development. Just use offshoots/branches as whole trees. You’ll get more and a larger variety of sizes that way anyway.
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I should have figured that out…
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Welcome to the Forum, Rick_Franklin
Thanks!