Tree question

[SilverSpike]

Yankee, got your post in my tree thread and did a little digging. Here is a link that has ArtHill who did some similar trees: http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/595988/ShowPost.aspx

Also, ran a search for birch and came up with these:

http://www.trains.com/trccs/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=birch&f=ODgsNzM0LDExLDEz&u=

Hope that helps!

Ryan

[yankee flyer]

Chicochip

I can appreciate your sentiments, my wife and I were married in 1960. And I do remember her saying, that stuff made her hair as stiff as a board. I am making up several trees as experiments using these suggestions. I'm molding free lance Great Northern mountain terrain. My wife and I try to get up into washington state, Canada, and even Alaska for the beutiful mountain scenery as often as possible.

Yankee Flyer

       

[chicochip]

A little more on hair spray: Use the cheapest kind you can find. It's more likely than to good stuff to be really sticky and stiff.

AND - possibly setting jel. If you don't know what this is, ask your wife. If I wasn't married for, say, 800 years or more, I'd never know about cheap hair spray OR setting jel.

[jerryl]

Matte medium and white glue are pretty much the same thing. Did you try hair spray?

  White glue is more forgiving than matt medium.  Even after it hardens It will disolve in water while matt medium is more or less permanent, but a little more pliable.   Sort of like water color vs. acrylic.  Jerry

[chicochip]

I like the hair spray idea.

[yankee flyer]

 No, I didn't think anything that you put on your hair would be very strong

[loathar]

Matte medium and white glue are pretty much the same thing. Did you try hair spray?

[yankee flyer]

Chicochip

Thanks for the response. I have tried the glue but i was hopeful that some one had a better idea for the birch trees. I'm a newbe at modeling. Is matte better than glue?

Yankee Flyer

[chicochip]

Try spraying the moss (or soaking) with diluted matte medium or diluted white glue...probably about 20% matte or glue to 80% water. Once it sets, the moss should no longer be limp.

[yankee flyer]

I bought rain deer moss with the intention of making birch trees using the moss and natural twigs. does anyone have an opinion or better advice? The moss has the look of tree branches but is limp. Painting the trunks white is no problem.

appreeeeeeciate it

Yankee flyer