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You asked for THIS too: cheap foam for Aggro's trees
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This posting is a sequel to the original topic: <br />http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=26674 <br /> <br />That was where AggroJones showed how to mass-produce HO scale trees by using fibers from furnace filters. I hinted that have been experimenting with floral foam (the green stuff that cut flowers can be stuck in and watered), and somebody emailed to ask me to elaborate. So here it is... <br /> <br />Floral foam comes in blocks about the size of a brick, sold in craft stores for about $1.25 apiece. <br />[img]http://trainweb.org/ironbelt/projects/img01.jpg[/img] <br /> <br />Using a coarse file, small fragments can be ground off... <br />[img]http://trainweb.org/ironbelt/projects/img02.jpg[/img] <br /> <br />...and collected, and clumped together... <br />[img]http://trainweb.org/ironbelt/projects/img03.jpg[/img] <br /> <br />I tried glueing some onto a ball of furnace filter fibers as described in Aggro's instructions, but it didn't occur to me that the stuff is FIBERGLASS until... I got a gazillion fiberglass splinters in my fingers! So I grabbed a leftover 'undecorated' WS tree trunk with a green cotton-like material on it that I picked up in a New Jersey hobbyshop a few years ago. I sprayed matte medium on it... <br />[img]http://trainweb.org/ironbelt/projects/img04.jpg[/img] <br />...and covered it until it looked like the the real thing: <br />[img]http://trainweb.org/ironbelt/projects/img05.jpg[/img] <br /> <br />As I've mentioned earlier, I'm still a 'novice' when it comes to modeling things that occur in nature. But I figured this could be a <b>cheap alternative</b> to buying WS Clump Foilage at ~ $4 a bag. <br /> <br />
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