I am starting the scenery on my HO layout ond need lots of trees. I made 30 yesterday using a thread I read on this forum, using blue furnice filter from WM. They are looking pretty good, I would like to have some smaller ones maybe like Post Oak or something simmler. I also need some bushes under the tall pines. any suggestions?
Looks great, now get busy and cover the rest of that hillside!!![;)]
Some would suggest that you remove the trees you have made and placed, and save them for nearer the front edge of your layout, or at least closer to the operator. Use balls of foam sprayed with tacky glue and sprinkled with at least two colours of green ground foam as your “forest” further back towards the backdrop. They will be much faster in production, look great if mixed up for size and look, and will speed up your forestation.
Having said that, it would be nice, since I will be doing this within a few weeks, if someone who has actually done this would post a clinic or point to a good thread so that we have a good guide.
-Crandell
Great looking trees. What thread did you use as a reference? I am always looking for new ways to make trees.
Terry[8D]
Trees are great Mike. I have been thinkig about trying those over the summer when I need indoor projects. (i.e. out of the garage and inside the AC) But what I really liked, was your bridges. Those are most impressive.
Aggro started the thread on furnace filter trees. It has to be back there somewhere. I learned to make all size trees. I am augmenting them with some bottle bru***rees I bought at a flea market and some astilbe trees that I painted green and added some foam. I am still making all my trees one at a time, because it seems all my scenery is in front or contains some kind of a buried treasure.
I made oak from Sage brush I found in AZ and birch trees from Queen of the Praire. My biggest help has been wandering around out side with my modelers eye and seeing all kinds of possibilities. I have gotten some of my gardener friends to do the same.
It might be helpful to start another sharing thread here for those just starting the forest period rather than trying to find all the old threads. Some of us who were helped a year ago would be willing to share what we learned, counting on some of the old hands to share, again, their skills.
Your trees look awesome, bro.
I would take a look at Woodland Scenics Clump-Foliage and Underbrush Bags…http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0091p?&C=UPD&V=WOO Thats what I found on Towerhobbies.
I looked back when I printed the thread, I printed it on 4/28/06. It was a week or so old then, I looked back through the previous pages and found nothing. I think the topis was “Help I need trees”. There is a topis ID # of 26674 if that is any help.
Mike
I think this might be the link
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page=1&TOPIC_ID=26674
Get Christmas tree garland with a metal wire core. (The plastic cored garland is too flimsy.) Trim the garland into pine tree shape. Dunk the tree from into diluted (~50/50) dark gray or dark brown latex house paint. Use cloths pins to clip the trees to a cloths line of sort to let the excess paint drip off. Put a tray underneath to catch the paint and you’ll be able to reuse the paint. Once the excess paint has dried, stick the tree form into a bucket or jar of ground foam and shake. Stick the tree trunks into Styrofoam to let them dry. Then plant. You can make hundreds of decent looking pine trees relatively quickly this way.
Good looking trees. For underbrush I use:
Ploy fiber covered with ground foam:
And WS Clump Foliage:
Nick