Recycle Christmas Trees

Hello: If you are “budget-minded” like me and have found that model layout trees are too costly, perhaps a solution. Keep an eye out for a discarded artificial Christmas tree. Some of the more modern versions have a variety of different types of branches that can be salvaged. As always, thanks for your attentio

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great idea, I may have to try that thank you for sharing.

Inexpensive pine garland and roping is another great source for large quantities of conifers for background and large areas. The kind I’m thinking of is the basic flat plastic strips twisted into steel wire variety. You simply snip off the pieces with side cutters or bolt cutters and trim the plastic into triangles. I made quite a few when I built my model of Disneyland between 2011 and 2020. They’re not generally good for foreground use but on hillsides they’re convincing enough.