Trees
On the left is a piece of dried natural foliage after spraying brown. The other pictures show some which have been rolled in
diluted white glue then sprinkled with ground foam. I have quite a few of these so can have a good 'forest' on the layout!
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I am also making some conifers. The string I am using is very old and was used for binding wheat into sheaves!
(Binder twine). But any fibrous stranded hemp-type rope
can be used. It is cut into suitable lengths then
twisted the opposite way to seperate the strands.
These are laid between wire hooked arond a nail on a
plank of wood, the ends of the wire are then twisted
together to hold the string in place.
The end of the wire is gripped in a vice and the wire coiled
using a power drill, trapping the strands in place. (Bottle brush method). The strands are then simply clipped
to shape with scissors.
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The result is shown below left. On the right, the trees have been
sprayed a brown/grey colour ready for application of foliage.
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Left: Some of the trees
after coating with diluted
wood glue and sprinkling
with scatter materials.
A lot more trees are
required, so I will make
another batch
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The deciduous type trees
already made have been
'planted'.
Again, many more are
required so I will add foliage
to others
which are still
in stock.
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