Happy Holidays to you all! I have just made about 30 trees using the natural fiber filter/flock/grape vine trunk method. These look pretty good…fairly similar to this:
I am wondering who you buy your trees from, or how you make them? I have also bought the bag of 20 piece pine and fir set of trees from Scenic express, but many of them are very tall (9") which now that I have them, will be ok in some areas, but on the mountain I think they will be toooo tall.
How do you all handle your pine trees? I would like most to look like the link above.
I personally go to Hobby Lobby around this time of year and buy bags of decrotive “frocked” pine trees for about $1.29 each. There’s usually about ten trees per bag if memory serves me right, and they come in sizes of large, medium and small. Each tree has a round wooden base that can be easily pulled off. I then take the trees and stick them into the side of an old card board box and spray paint them olive drab green, let them dry for an hour or so then stick them down on the layout where ever I want them. They work great for either HO or N scale…
I use Noch and Busch trees for big areas of trees as the price is more reasonable, Noch are up to 20cm / 8 inches and the Busch G scale trees are 30cm or 12 inches tall.
If you can afford the others mentioned above they’d look great in the foreground but too much for me as I’ve just spent loads on these more basic trees for my Swiss layout and it’s 16ft x 3ft.
my feable attempt to do the aggrojones method. Not near as good and I can see now that the flash hit the trees that I need more flock. these two are the best so far. Suggestions?
These are just cut up pieces of natural fiber filter…glued on to the stem of a grapevine… then sprayed with scenic cement and dumped in a bag filled with foliage and shook well
I use cedar shingle stips and hoghair furnace filter for my pine and spruce tress. I cut the cedar shingl into tapered strips and then round them. I usually make about twenty or thirty trunks ahead. Then I cut circles of furnace filter and expand the material along the length of the trunk. Then I spray the filter and trunk loosely with gray spray paint. I want some of the natural cedar color to show through. Then I spray with 3M77 contact cement and roll in fine foam for spruce and coarse for pines. See what sticks and maybe reroll in the foam,and you’re done. For broad leaf trees I use sage brush stems 'cause I live in an area where they’re a weed. first I use WS poly fibre to group the leaves spray with 3M77 ,then drop ground foam over to taste. Happy Holidays[:D]
The very best I have seen mass produced has been tapered whatever (dowels,skewers,ect.) painted and sprayed with contact glue and dipped in fine twine of different lengths while spinning. Spray again from top and sprinkle ground fine foam . Loks like the ones you drill for each branch.
Sure folks have bought these. They get what they pay for, superbly done trees.
If you want to see outrageously expensive trees, look at some of the mass produced items closely. Although they don’t cost much, their resemblance to trees is only slight. They look like models of trees, not trees.
If you want to see even better trees, but most likely more expensive yet, try the website of Klaus Berbig’s Modellbaumschule in Germany.
