I’m looking for a source or how to make thin trees for along a couple rivers. Can anybody help ? Thanks, Marty
Can’t help with making them but Woodland Scenics makes the types of trees you are refering to. It is called Fine-Leaf Foliage. I bought a package of them last year. The look outstanding but are very brittle. They aren’t cheap so if you need a lot of them, it probably isn’t a realistic option.
I take trimmings from my bushes in my yard for the trunks, use bake clay for the bases then add linchen for foliage. I paint the clay base to look like the trunks, then sprinkle grass in the still wet paint. Certain foliage like spirea looks like trees with the foliage on, you just need to paint if you want something other than brown. I cut a bunch of “tree trunks” this time of the year, then finish the rest of the tree as I’m ready for them. Inexpensive and look real nice I think.
Jim
I’m using actual twigs, covered in WS blended-turf dusted WS lichen clumps. Easy and quick to make, and look great.
Different trees need different materials. Michaels has several dried weeds that make armatures. I use Queen of the Praire for birch and poplar. Astilbe makes small balsam trees. Tumble weeds make good oak and maple. There are many other flowers and weeds that make the basic tree. I use mostle spray paint and varios Woodlad Scenic ground foamsd and micro fibers to fill them out. I use dowels and Caspia twigs for pine and fir trees.
Aggro makes great Christmas trees out of furnace filter and skewers.
That is a start. There is no end to what creativity can create, This is a good time of year to look at trees without leaves to see what twigs will work.
Might I suggest pages 3 & 7 on this scenery clinic thread: http://siskiyou-railfan.net/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?1270.0
It’s very good!
The best “thin” trees I have are the asparagus sprouts. [:D] I had planned to eat the asparagus, but decided to let them continue to produce HO trees and buy some to eat at the grocery store.[:P]
Scenic Express offers very fine “thin” trees in their SuperTrees line: