QUOTE: Originally posted by jfugate QUOTE: Originally posted by ngartshore350 Not sure what "silfor" is, we might have another name for it in OZ? Regards, NG Silflor is a special synthetic mat that you can get in various nap lengths. Here's more about it on my web site: Click here to learn more: http://siskiyou.railfan.net/model/constructionNotes/silflor.html
QUOTE: Originally posted by ngartshore350 Not sure what "silfor" is, we might have another name for it in OZ? Regards, NG
QUOTE: Originally posted by pcarrell Oh, and Joe, I love your work. It's very inspirational. I have your scenery clinic bookmarked. (I've had it bookmarked for a long time. Good stuff!)
Joe Fugate Modeling the 1980s SP Siskiyou Line in southern Oregon
QUOTE: Originally posted by edkowal Super Trees won't work for all cases, or in all scales. I find that unless you're willing to beef up the trunk, you don't get a convincing tree. The thin trunk that you get using an unmodified Super Tree wouldn't be strong enough to hold up the tree's foliage. The tree would fall down of its own weight. -Ed
QUOTE: Originally posted by pcarrell QUOTE: Originally posted by edkowal The thin trunk that you get using an unmodified Super Tree wouldn't be strong enough to hold up the tree's foliage. The tree would fall down of its own weight. That's why Jerry suggested putting a wire inside the trunk.
QUOTE: Originally posted by edkowal The thin trunk that you get using an unmodified Super Tree wouldn't be strong enough to hold up the tree's foliage. The tree would fall down of its own weight.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by edkowal Super Trees won't work for all cases, or in all scales. I find that unless you're willing to beef up the trunk, you don't get a convincing tree.
QUOTE: The thin trunk that you get using an unmodified Super Tree wouldn't be strong enough to hold up the tree's foliage. The tree would fall down of its own weight.
QUOTE: Originally posted by jfugate You can check out my forum scenery clinic here at this link: http://model-trains-video.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=157 I talk about modeling scenery from A to Z, including how to make trees. Scenery made using techniques in my Scenery Forum Clinic.
QUOTE: Originally posted by edkowal There is no fast and easy method for excellent trees.
QUOTE: Originally posted by edkowal The best online clinic I've ever seen is in French. To translate it into pretty good English, first go to the Altavista Babelfish site at: http://babelfish.altavista.com/ Then scroll down to the Translate a Web Page section, choose French to English and enter: http://home.worldcom.ch/gribig/arbres%201.html for the address of the Web page. Michel Gribi's clinic is the best I've seen, BUT, it is not a fast method. There is no fast and easy method for excellent trees. Of all the parts in the technique, perhaps the key is to work from photos or books of real trees. Everybody knows what a generic tree should look like, but the best tree models, like locomotive or building models, will be of specific types of tree. And the best way to get that right is to work from pictures of real trees. -Ed P.S. Forgot to mention the navigation buttons, which don't get translated because they're graphics, rather than text. "Accueil" will get you to the Home page of the site. "Conseils" will bring up a list of clinics. And "Suivant" at the bottom of the page, will bring up a page of completed examples made using the method, and the French-English description of the type of tree it's a model of. Each time you hit "Suivant" you'll get a new page of examples.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.