Got me a Christmas Tree

[SpaceMouse]

Traded 3 Atkins Quick Cuisine Muffin Mixes for it. There enough here to make several hundred 12-15" trees.

But the twisted wire trunk looks nothing like a fir tree. How do I fix that?

Have a Redwood grove planned 24" trees with 1 1/2 trunks. Heck might even put in a drive-through tree.

[rrinker]

Modelling clay. Then paint brown, add additional highlights as desired - for foreground trees, more detail is needed. For ones way at the back, probably not worth the effort, no one will see them.

--Randy

[SpaceMouse]

QUOTE: Originally posted by rrinker

Modelling clay. Then paint brown, add additional highlights as desired - for foreground trees, more detail is needed. For ones way at the back, probably not worth the effort, no one will see them.

--Randy

That's what my wife said. Please don't tell her I admitted she was right. [:-^]

[rrinker]

I'm happier *I* was right.... if it involves any sort of artistic talent, it's not for me. But I seem to recall reading about using modelling clay in one or more of the books I have.

--Randy

[Jetrock]

For pines made from plastic Christmas trees, you'll want to apply a little green spray paint and foam after trimming the branches.Ideally this will disguise the twisted-wire center sufficiently--and the base will be inserted into a hole in your layout and covered with glue. If a tree is mostly trunk, clay can be used to disguise wire-based trees...in fact one old technique is to twist bits of wire into a treelike shape, cover with clay, scribe in bark, paint it gray (Look outside! Most tree bark is GRAY, not brown!) and add foliage.