Im up aginst a wall...and need another idea....

[Anonymous]

I haven't even read this thread beyond your question, so if I'm duplicating a reply I offer my apologies...

Green Scotch Scrubbing pads make for great coniferous trees. Here's how:
Buy a few bags of green scotch scouring pads. Cut circles from the rectangle pads in increasingly smaller sizes (three to four sizes should suffice). Take a bamboo scewer and dip it into some white glue. Thred the largest of the circles onto the scewer, followed by the next smallest, and the next smallest until you get the height you want. Stick the scewer into a scrap piece of foam and move onto the next tree until you have as many as you want. Let dry overnight. Then, spray the trees with an appropriate shade of green to add some colour variation. Then, before this coat of paint dries, sprinkle fine ground foam of your choice colour (lighter or darker) over the trees for added texture.

This makes lots of pine trees relatively cheaply, and they look pretty good.

Trevor[:)]

[Anonymous]

make a terminal that suits the decor or just change the layout all togther

[bbrant]

Hey csxengineer -

What club do you belong to? Did you ever make it up to the Laurel Highlands Model RR Club (in Somerset) this year? Saw a guy wearing a CSX hat one day during our open house. Thought it might have been you but he said he was from Jax and was just passing through when he thought he'd stop in and take a look.

Brian

[csxengineer98]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ukguy

hmmmm, ok then csx try this one,

yesterday at winndixie(grocerystore) I found an air conditioner filter similar I thought to the one used to make the pine trees. It said natural air filter the same but the fibres inside were diferent to the walmart ones, it was kind of like WS polyfibre but it was blue and slightly heavier. anyway I bought it, I thought $5 for a 1"x20"x30" piece of polyfibre sure is cheaper than the LHS. I treated it the same as polyfibre, pulled, stretched and thinned it out then draped it over a twig from one of those little hedge type bushes, the ones every neighbourhood has, the twigs are very detailed. Once the fibre is on the 'trunk' spray brown, then grey sprinkle on WS coarse turf and presto....dense foliaged tree.
Foliage can be shaped pior to painting for desired shape by pulling and trimming and the correct colour WS coarse turf can be found for a maple colour.

I got 95 pine trees from one sheet of the other filter, and this stuff appears to go almost twice as far, so prob $10 for 150 trees.
I'd post a pic right now but the wife left my digital cam in her mothers car earlier. let me know if you want to see it.

Be safe and have fun
Karl.

ill pitch that idea to the club next meeting night and see what they say..but from the sound of it..that is more like what im after.....thanks
csx engineer

[ukguy]

hmmmm, ok then csx try this one,

yesterday at winndixie(grocerystore) I found an air conditioner filter similar I thought to the one used to make the pine trees. It said natural air filter the same but the fibres inside were diferent to the walmart ones, it was kind of like WS polyfibre but it was blue and slightly heavier. anyway I bought it, I thought $5 for a 1"x20"x30" piece of polyfibre sure is cheaper than the LHS. I treated it the same as polyfibre, pulled, stretched and thinned it out then draped it over a twig from one of those little hedge type bushes, the ones every neighbourhood has, the twigs are very detailed. Once the fibre is on the 'trunk' spray brown, then grey sprinkle on WS coarse turf and presto....dense foliaged tree.
Foliage can be shaped pior to painting for desired shape by pulling and trimming and the correct colour WS coarse turf can be found for a maple colour.

I got 95 pine trees from one sheet of the other filter, and this stuff appears to go almost twice as far, so prob $10 for 150 trees.
I'd post a pic right now but the wife left my digital cam in her mothers car earlier. let me know if you want to see it.

Be safe and have fun
Karl.

[csxengineer98]

uk....they look good...but not the styel of tree i am looking for...i am looking for something that looks more like maple trees...big think trunk..and a big ball of leaves...
csx engineer

[Anonymous]

Do they need to look detailed or just something to fill out between the foreground and background trees? For mid-ground trees I've used small twigs stuck into the scenery base and toped them with moss, dyed a dark gray and covered with fine ground foam. Behind and between the mid-ground trees I spread out different shades of green foliage. Some trees are on their side or leaning over, some look tore up like they been struck by lightning or blown over. Lots of debris and leaf litter on the ground hides the lack of roots. I also used roots from dries plants as dead trees.

[ndbprr]

Naturecreplicates itself in many ways. With trees the roots replicate what is above groungd so if you can find a place where someone is removing some trees you can get enough root structures for a lot of trees.

[ukguy]

hi csx,
here is a post I did a couple of weeks ago on making trees, cheap an easy. Also if you read down I also put a link in to aggrojones instructions on pines.

http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=29899

I just completed an area with both these types of trees and i think it looks great, I'll post a pic if you want to see.

let me know how it goes.
be safe,
karl

[csxengineer98]

ok...here is the deal.... i took someones advice some time ago about making the fluff ball trees...and that worked out very very well...was very impressed in how it turned out..but now i need a way to make trees that is also cheep not to complicated and lots of them... with tree trunks..... any suggestions?
csx engineer