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So my son is 6 years old. Hes a Thomas the tank fanatic. His grandfather decides to get him a Thomas train set. It needed something to sit on and be perminant so I decided I would build a simple layout for him. <br /> <br />First thing, Ive never done this before. But I got the woodland scenics how to video and they did a whole 4x8 scene in 1 hour. How hard can this be? I work in the construction industry, I fly RC Helicopters I can mix some plaster and wad up some news paper and build my boy a layout. <br /> <br />HAHA easy nor cheap this is. So after 3 days and 200 bucks wasted on woodland scenics plaster cloth and thier 20 dollar elmers glue. All I have is a mountain with a tunnel and track laid. <br /> <br />Since im so skilled I decided to tra***he EZ track in favor of Code 83 Atlas track, that way I could run it on that nifty foam noise deadner and have the cool balast too!. Yea anyway, once I glued the track down with my 20 dollar bottle of woodlandselmer glue. Its louder then it was originally without foam yay. <br /> <br />So here I sit, painted mountian, painted surface, and track down. Now I spent 200 bucks already for a 70 dollar toy. And I still need to do all the trees and grass and whatnot. I refuse to give woodland scenics anymore of my money, so heres my question... <br /> <br />Is there a cheap way to make about 75-100 trees about 4-5 inches tall? The kind of tree doesnt matter as long as it looks like a tree. Down here we have very hilly areas and they are covered with trees, thats what I want to do to the mountain thing I have, make it into a mountain forest. <br /> <br />And while we are at it, how about some cheap grass? The ground foam looks too much like astro turf to me. Our grass is more like hay, it grows tall and weedy. <br /> <br />Oh yea, I need to have this done before christmas morning :) <br /> <br />
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