High. Great video Jenny. I've made quite a few trees recently and I found the plastic bag method worked very well. So that is putting the tree cover in a plastic bag, spraying the prepared tree and holding it in the bag and shaking for a fuller tree structure. Cheers Tony F.
I’ve watched several videos and your trees are by far the best.. thnx. I am planning on creating a mixed forest scene for my trains to trundle through.
Great segment. I have been stalking the plants in the local nurseries for something that would work well. Nothing quite as good as the seafoam yet...thanks for streaming
I make all my own ground turf and foliage from saw dust or foam rubber using an electric coffee grinder my wife gave me just for my model trains. That way you can control the colour and granularity for your product. I also make my own iron oxide powder by soaking about 4 rolls of 0000 steel wool in a quart jar of vinegar. Leave it in the vinegar for about a month then pour the mixture into a pan (I use my old darkroom stainless 11" x 14" trays for fixing photos) or a large baking dish. Wait about 2 to 3 weeks for the mixture to completely dry, then, using a single edge razor blade, I pulverize the rust into a fine powder. Then just use it as you would any other weathering powder. It looks real, 'cause it IS real rust. I've done this several times and each batch comes out a little different shades of rust. I also do not use any weathering powders--instead, I go to the dollar store and buy women's makeup in the little plastic cases. You can get quite a collection of colours for just $1.00. The makeup sticks better than weathering powders or chalks. Try it, & you'll see for yourself. I also have a ton of lichen growing out back on the hill behind my house. I also use Nandena bush berry remains for tree armatures. They make great trees and I use my own mix of ground cover (turf) for my trees. After the red berries fall off the bush, what remains are perfect tree trunks (armatures). You can paint the armatures any colour you like and can even use grey for aspen trees with yellow leaves for fall. Cheers from an old modeler W Rusty Lane K9POW in eastern Tennessee (& yes, I'm a Ham)
Jenny has done an excellent job here of making a model tree that almost, but not quite, covers up the fact that her layout is actually covered with real trees that she fired a shrink Ray at.
Your trees look amazing soooo realistic!, I've just had a look for some sea foam and was a little shocked how expensive it is so wondering is there a cheaper alternative?
This looks like something I can definitely have a go at, although I think recreating Poplar trees will require some careful selecting of the seafoam pieces as they have a very distinctive shape/growing pattern
Nicely done. Richard @ WWS says something like “hairspray is only designed to last 12 hours”. Have you any older attempts that used hairspray to be able to comment? Ta.
I have a few on Wear Yard though these are never moved or disturbed. In truth, Zoë edited in the wrong segment - the hairspray comment was for the US version of the video that went out on the MRH channel as WWS isn’t easy to get over there
Hairspray that is of the extra hold variety will hold for much more than 12 hours. I knew a modeller years ago who made wire trees and used woodfiller for the bark mixed with a bit of pva and glued clumped foliage on with a glue gun. He highlighted the leaves with extra strong Hairspray and grass scatter. These were big trees on a OO layout that survived many trips in the back of a van to exhibitions. The grass scatter stayed put!
Trees come in a variety of shapes and sizes, to be fair. You can, of course, always trim the trunk down a bit, too. It's a tougher challenge but could be a fun project.
