Trees from your wife's garden

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I wanted lots of trees on my layout and spent the last week in my wife’s garden. I found some good stuff.

Here is a plant called Queen of the Prairie. I cut small pieces, painted the stems bright white and they dry brushed on some Mars Black Acrylic with my smallest brush. They make fair Birch trees. I am still debating spraying the leaves for better color or adding some scenic foam. I may leave them alone.

Here are some different Astilbies. I hope they will make skeletons for Jack Pine and small White Pine…

Here are some Sedum. I’m not sure what application I can make with these. The scale looks too large

I also have some small bushes that I think can be bundled with florist’s tape and made into small trees. If they work, I’ll show them…

I would love to share more work with you. Aggro got me started and the poet said, “Only God can make a tree”. But we can sure have a good time modeling them

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Nice work! Wish I had some of those Queens o’ Prairie in my state (Maryland), guess I’ll have to hunt for something similar…

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That Queen of the Prairie looks great – I just wish something like that grew out here in the desert. It would be interesting to hear in a few months how these are holding up after they dry out.

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Art.

Thanks for the tip on the Queen of the Prairie.

For the Sedum, let it go until next Spring. It dies off in the winter, don’t cut it yet. In the spring, you’ll have some great tree forms from the dead flower heads.