Here's a few of the trees I'm making for my 1/48 Heter dio.


Branches added and painted.


W/ evergreen added.

Few different sizes & Shapes.

I used the "Broom Method" Found here:
http://www.trevinocircle.com/sippin/

Was very helpful but the process was alittle course for scale modeling so I tweaked it some.

Questions and comments always welcome.

Very cool article...........

Very nice article thanks for sharing it with us. Cheers Kevin

Great article. Thanks for sharing

Great article - I'll have to try it soon.

Question - in 1/48 scale did you use the same broom material that they used for the RR layout?

Great article.
Hmm, my mother in law has a big broom. Perhaps I can borrow material from that. On the other hand, if I ruin her broom, she won't be able to fly home again.

Seriously, that broom method looks pretty good.
Thanks for sharing.

Hey Scott,

I used two brooms: reg. type floor broom (w/ larger strands for the bottom) and a sm. fine broom from Michael's (finer for the top).

I thinking of using a 2-3-4" paint brush for the next set.


FYI: The trees I made took about 4 hr's (learning curve) and cost maybe $2 max. for five trees, 2" up to 5". I'm happy.

N E O

Neo,

Thanks for the post! Very neat method....I've bookmarked the site....hope they don't move it

Mike

Mike,

You can "right click" and save a whole page to your disk (I have that whole tree project saved to mine).

N E O

Great article, I knew it before but I didn't try it yet. Your trees look fantastic, thanks for sharing ..

good looking trees Neo. i've read the articles before but i simply could get it right. the steel wire that i use always broke half way. i even try a few wire materials but they will broke eventually. So what wire that is suitable for the twisting??

and what materials did u use for the foliages?? look great to me

Hi Silantra,

For the wire I used a type that is used to hang acoustic ceiling tile (because I had a roll laying around). It's around 10ga. (maybe 2mm). This wire usually breaks once and you have to reclamp the drill and start twisting again. This wire was alittle too fat for my smaller trees.

I'm thinking of getting a spool of Safety Wire (that's the wire they use on Racecars / Aircraft to keep bolts from comming loose). I think it will be smaller in dia. and stronger.

Drill speed has to be slow at first untill you take up the stack in the wire. Also the bend in the wire where you double it over has to be in the drill and the two loose ends clamped in the vice.

The foliage is both WoodLand Scenics; Coarse Turf for the base vegitation (to give it a bumpy look), then Fine Turf to give it a evergreen needle look. Used can of spray mount to make it stick.

It sounds involved but after the first or second tree they really fly off the workbench.

Good Luck
N E O