Super Trees from Scenic Express is one of my favorites, though time consuming to make. The biggest problem I have with them is getting them to straighten out before adding the leaf material. Hanging them upside down with weights attached works sometimes but not always for sure.
Any suggestions?
Jarrell
It has always seemed to me that there is a direct correlation between the amount of time it takes to make trees and the look of the final product.
The trees that can be installed rignt out of the box never look as realistic as the trees you have to put together and “decorate” yourself.
Rich
Ain’t that the truth. Now to figure out a way to straighten some of them so that they look somewhat better… to me.
Jarrell
I assume you meant hanging them with weights after soaking in diluted matte medium. I did that and it worked pretty well. Though I did not try it myself, I read that boiling them really works well. That really seems like alot of extra work.
Hope this helps,
Mark
I actually boiled my SuperTrees and had some Glycerine in the water, The straighteed out really nice when I hanged them upside down with clothespins as weights.
I noticed that they aren´t as brittle as the ones I made with Matte Medium, so less chance of them breaking… I apply the Noch leaves with 3M 77 spray glue.
I tried boiling the super tree armatures. A LOT of extra work for a very marginal improvement. I just go through the raw armature batch and pick the best, most straight ones for trees (usually a large number of the total)…The rest get turned into bushes (I need 1000’s of bushes).
I hang them to dry with weights after they have been dipped/soaked and flocked.
I will also break the trunks of stubborn trees, hold them straight and then hit them with super glue and accelerant - works pretty well.
I also find that most of the trees have a good side and can be placed on the layout so the viewer wont see even pretty extreme trunk curvature.
An example of some moderately warped trees from the slightly less than “chosen” angle:
Guy
I boil mine for ten to fifteen minutes. Then I remove them from the water and submerge them in diluted matte medium. I hang them to dry from clothes pins and hang a few pins on the ends to add weight. The really stubborn ones have a clamp hung from them. They dry pretty straight after that. I never had any luck with them if not boiled.
After they dry I spray them with paint and hang them back on the clothes pins. It works pretty well that way. Good luck.
when you get the box of supertrees , throw the whole piece into a pot of water and bring to boil. Don’t try to separate anything. They are too brittle to separate dry
Much obliged for the suggestions!
Jarrell
Graffen,
How much glycerin did you add to the water? What was the source of the glycerin?
Thanks,
Bob
The box I bought was fairly large. Do you use a cauldren to boil them all at once? Ray
I,also, love Super trees. A $25 box usually contains about 60 full sized HO scale armatures, with plenty of small pieces for bushes. While out for a walk. I always take along a plastic bag to gather multi-branched twigs that,also, make great trees. I spray the branches with spray adhesive and then sprinkle on small lengths of sisal rope,(to add branches). By adding saplings and bushes to the forest floor, the bent tree trunks are hidden. I change the color of forests with the seasons, by substituting trees of appropriate color. For a conifer canopy on narrow backdrop ledges, I cut sheets of green painted packaging foam into zig-zag strips, that are sprayed with various colors and layered onto the background Click on photos to enlarge them. Then, click on Next or Previous to view other photos of my layout. 
Maybe the problem is, for me at least, that I haven’t been soaking them in the matte medium long enough. How long do you guys soak them and do you use matte medium like the instructions recommend or have you found a better way?
Jarrell