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Abydos
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Posted: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 01:47 PM UTC
has anyone ever used those laser cut leaves yet? are they as good as they look? could you dup them if you needed a lot for a dio, i have made my own a while, and it was very time consuming, and it didnt crasp the look i wanted so i saw these and thought i would ask
roudeleiw
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Posted: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 08:10 PM UTC
Hi William,
i can't directly answer your question because i never used them, but i do not intend to buy them mainly because (to my knowledge) they are all exactly the same size. I don't like that.

Cheers
Claude

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Posted: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 08:55 PM UTC
As a matter of fact I did buy and use some of those leaves -the Plus Model brand, and well, no Claude, those don't come up at the same size! there might be some 4 different sizes or i could be wrong, but the fact is, they don't *look* like they're of the same size.
Then i read somewhere that those were *cheap*.
Maybe, if you plan to use a couple of them in a diorama or in a small figure base they will be cheap, but not if you plan to create a tree, or even some sort of leaves litter around a tree.
My opinion on those is that they are one of the 2 only valuable ways to create realistic trees around, and yes William, they are as good as they look.
But good value for the money, it really depends on what kind of money you are doing per month
Plasticbattle
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Posted: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 09:30 PM UTC
As JBA says, they are not the one size ... they range from very small to maybe a little on the large side. I think they are great detail to have at hand, and they are as good as they look in my opinion.

roudeleiw
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Posted: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 11:37 PM UTC
Hi guys,
as i understood William's questions, he asked about those japanese brand KAMIZUKURI , with leaves on a sheet, those are identical.

The Plus model leaves are of course a good choice, (i did not thought of them) that's why i used them already on the oak near my castle, sparely, just to show some last ones hanging on the tree and some on the ground. Like you guys said, in my view they are to expensive.

This evening i can post a pic of a friends dio with the tree full of the oak leaves , probably ten boxes of leaves. He does not want to tell how much he used because his wife may read the tread

Claude
Abydos
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Posted: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 01:41 AM UTC
hey thanks everyone,and your all right about one thing $, for i am creating a medium size tree during fall, , how much are plus models? claude i am glad you enjoy the archive! have any of you ever used fiber optics within any of your dio? i was thinking of it
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Posted: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 02:08 PM UTC
The Sponsor at top has them.

here.
http://www.milminwh.com/

Good place to do business and in New York.
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