looks as it the ground is just covered with sheet moss...in my opinion it should have more grass and other mid height bushes and young trees. Forests arent ever that dominated by one plant.

Cannot agree with this comment. I have often been for walks through forests, that nothing hardly lives

one coment on your pine trees diesel................. the lower portion of some of them look JUST LIKE telephone polls. But hey, i have not seen much of that type of tree/tree growth (all trees here are somewhat stunted and beaten by the wind a LOT)

First thanks for all the reply but you guys are really bashing these trees.

Also, the branches should start further up the trunk, as said before, but they should be more densly packed.

BTW, I'm sure the author used shhet moss to represent grass.

If you look at charles´s models you´ll see hes got a keen eye for detail.

this glycinrene product is available in arts & crafts shops for drying plants and perserving their colour. You must have something similar in the states.

You can get glycerin here in the states at your local pharmacy. BTW, I think the trees are great.

Patrick

Well Well Well, I kinda waited for the day when my modelling skills would come under attack. An d boy it just did :-)

To put things into perspective I tell you all the deal here.

1. First of all, modellers are different in every way, especially their methods of doing things. There is no right or wrong way to achieve a goal, at least not in this hobby.

2. People are entitle to their opinions. Be it negative or positive.

3. Only the author or builder knows why he has chosen to do things a certain way, regardless if other modellers disagree.

4. The resaon I used the sheet moss was to represent slightly overgrown shrubs in certain areas that I wa modelling. There is lots of forestry in Sweden, believe, most swedes will tell you and I practically in live near a huge one. I had taken a trip into this certain part of the forest where a particular area caught my eye. This area had less pine trees, very tall and sparsely grown leaves.

Some had branches starting almost at mid-level and were not abundance at all. Some of the pines do look like telephone poles as you politing put it but but do in real life. I believe my trees have texture as it's hardly visible in some of the pics diesel posted but if you would see them up close they do present some indentations and imperfections.

Don't worry, I'm not upset or any thing just trting to put the record straight. What another person might be used to seeing is not always the same for another person.

So there you have all, my view to all the unbelievers

BTW Ian, thanks for the tip on where to get the glycerine. Please remember I did these trees over 9 years ago and I think for wha tI knew back then still represents itself pretty well.

BTW Frank, thanks for the link. I'm hoping to go to the next IPMS with you in march. Probably bring some of my models.