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Look around your local discount stores and christmas shops. At this time of year there are lots of artificial christmas trees coming on sale, and just one small tree can give you dozens, if not hundreds, of model-size trees. Look for one that has moulded plastic leaves which push onto a central branch or stem. These leaf sections can be sprayed with adhesive and sprinkled with ground cover of the desired colour, if that is even necessary. Push a piece of dowel up inside them to hold them while you spray and sprinkle, and the same dowel can be pushed into your scenery base to hold the tree on location. I made quite a lot of trees by this method to forest a hillside on a wall-hugging layout (now dismantled) that I built in my loft a few years back. Only difference was, I didn't buy the original tree but found it on a neighbour's rubbish pile after the festivities were over! David R.
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