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
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
loathar wrote:Matte medium and white glue are pretty much the same thing. Did you try hair spray?
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.
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, 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
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan