SUMMARY-trees and shrubbery
Kelley Wittmeyer
my original post was how to create trees and shrubs in n scale.
these are the answers i received. thanks to all!
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From: ri...@adelphi.edu (Ricky Glass)
You can make your own with lichen but there is a better substance (esp
for N scale). Pipe cleaners. Not the normal ones but the ones they
sell in the craft stores. They are like footballs laid end to end. You
cut at the mid point, spray them with areosol glue (or cheap hairspray)
and then dip them in a bag of fine ground foam (woodland scenics for a
brand).
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From: David Wahl <wa...@merton.enet.dec.com>
I use twigs clipped from dead scrub oak branches to model the trunks
of deciduous trees. Scrub oak is plentiful here in the foothills
and its twigs are a small-scale reflection of the real thing. I use
Woodland Scenics foliage clusters for foliage attached with white glue.
The trick is to let the trunk tell you how to break up and spread the
cluster in a natural way over the branches. At N scale you have to
hunt carefully for small twigs which have the characteristic "trunk
and 3 branches starting at different places" look, but I can usually
find half a dozen amongst the dead parts of a scrub oak. If you're
paranoid or want to build a layout which archaeologists will marvel
at, coat the trunks in some kind of matte finish to preserve them, but
I don't find that neccessary at our humidity. (colorado)
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From: sch...@cbmvax.commodore.com (Jeff Scherb - CATS)
Maybe this will help.
Jeff
Keyword search for 2 keyword(s): TREE SCENERY
64 matching entries found
MR 2/50 p22 Creating likelike trees using dried weeds
( SCENERY, TREE )
MR 3/51 p16 Creating miniature vegetation
( SCENERY, SHRUB, TREE )
MR 4/55 p23 Trees and terrain - making trees from weeds
( SCENERY, TREE )
MR 9/57 p26 Tree trunks and stumps
( JACKWORK, SCENERY, STUMP, TREE, TRUNK )
MR 5/58 p32 How to model pine trees, using asparagus fern
( ASPARAGUS, FERN, JACKWORK, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 2/65 p58 Trees transform an scene into natural landscape
( SCENERY, TREE )
MR 5/68 p51 Tree in a minute from horsehair packing
( SCENERY, TREE )
MR 12/68 p46 Making palm trees
( PALM, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 8/69 p34 Licorice-root trees
( LICORICE, SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 2/69 p33 Trees - making trees from lychen, twigs, brush, etc.
( SCENERY, TREE )
1001 12/70 p52 Tree techniques - nice pine trees
( PINE, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 4/70 p33 Casting stumps from rubber
( SCENERY, STUMP, TREE )
RMC 4/71 p28 Foliage materials - use a variety
( BUSH, FOLIAGE, GRASS, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 7/72 p72 MR Clinic: modeling trees
( SCENERY, TREE )
MR 8/72 p61 Preparing sorghum trees
( SCENERY, SORGHUM, TREE )
MR 1/73 p64 Make better trees from bought ones - hack up perfect
pines
( SCENERY, TREE )
MR 6/73 p67 Marvelous moss - build pine trees from moss
( MOSS, SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 4/73 p31 A lonesome pine - building fir trees
( SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 12/73 p50 Let nature do the hard part - trees from weeds
( SCENERY, TREE )
RRM 5/73 p38 Easy trees and bushes using florist's plastic greenery
( SCENERY, TREE )
MR 1/74 p44 Building trees with picture wire
( SCENERY, TREE, WIRE )
MR 9/74 p56 Scenery and foliage texturing - excellent
( ROCK, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 11/74 p86 Another look at lichen
( LICHEN, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 8/75 p44 Mr. Lukesh revisited, palm trees with feather fronds
( PALM, SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 9/76 p60 Improving lichen with ground foam
( LICHEN, SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 10/76 p56 John Olson explains how to build realistic pine trees
Very realistic
( OLSON, PINE, SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 11/76 p53 Bact to nature for dead trees - make them from roots
( ROOT, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 6/77 p87 Believable trees by the bushel using weeds
( SCENERY, TREE )
MR 10/78 p68 Evergreens everywhere - use bumpy chenille
( CHENILLE, PINE, SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 9/78 p42 Paper-leafed deciduous tree using punch card holes
( SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 10/79 p80 Cudweed deciduous trees
( SCENERY, TREE, WEEDS )
RMC 10/79 p83 Trees of autumn - colors for fall foliage
( AUTUMN, PAINT, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 4/80 p96 Furnace filter forests
( FILTER, FURNACE, SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 5/80 p64 Making your own foam foliage and trees
( FOAM, FOLIAGE, SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 12/80 p87 A quick and easy way of mass-producing coniferous trees
( PINE, SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 3/81 p84 Birch trees
( BIRCH, SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 11/81 p69 From weeds to trees - build a forest from weeds
( FOLIAGE, SCENERY, TREE, WEEDS )
MR 5/82 p100 Grow a forest overnight - growing stranded wire trees
( SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 2/82 p102 Sawdust bushes - new use for an old modeling material
( BUSH, FOLIAGE, SAWDUST, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 5/83 p88 Flat background trees
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MR 8/83 p70 Floral shop trees using decorator moss
( PINE, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 10/83 p124 Jute trees - inexpensive evergreens
( JUTE, PINE, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 12/83 p111 Modeling the great American deserts
( BUSH, DESERT, SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 5/83 p76 Forestry on the SEC - forest large areas
( FOREST, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 8/84 p94 Root trees for scenic variety - trees made from roots
( ROOT, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 1/85 p114 A source for large pine trees - old artificial Christmas
tr
( CHRISTMAS, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 8/85 p80 A quick and inexpensive pine forest - bumpy chenille
( PINE, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 2/86 p116 Deciduous, anyone? Furlow makes trees
( FURLOW, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 6/86 p83 String trees, highly detailed foreground models
( SCENERY, TREE )
MR 11/86 p113 Creating a fall scene
( FALL, SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 5/87 p55 Making deciduous and evergreen trees
( EVERGREEN, FOLIAGE, PINE, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 2/88 p108 Pine tree art - tips for building realistic western
trees
( PINE, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 10/88 p84 Creating realistic conifiers
( PINE, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 11/89 p93 Pine trees for the layout - new way to make pine foliage
( PINE, SCENERY, TREE )
MR 11/89 p95 Trees, signals and details, F&S junction module, part 3
( CONSTRUCTION, MODULE, SCENERY, TREE, TYLICK )
MR 11/89 p138 Using weeds for woods, making trees from painted ragweed
( SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 5/89 p69 Improved lichen bushes
( BUSH, LICHEN, SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 6/89 p58 Modeling trees with mother nature
Techniques for picking/painting weeds
( SCENERY, TREE )
MR 6/90 p74 Building forests on the M&K division
Good ideas for tree-covered hillsides
( SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 1/90 p93 Winter trees made from steel cable
( SCENERY, TREE, WINTER )
RMC 7/90 p59 Tree roots - a quick detail
( ROOT, SCENERY, TREE )
RMC 11/90 p80 Another tree article? Yes, but you pick these
( SCENERY, TREE )
MR 8/91 p102 Live water and real plants on the Crown Mountain
Division
( SCENERY, TREE, WATER, O SCALE )
MR 11/91 p144 Trees and bushes from burrs
( BUSH, SCENERY, TREE )
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From: bu...@asd2.jsc.nasa.gov (Tom Bunce)
I have made trees with great success (and cheaply too) by using fiber fill
for
pillows available at a fabric store. The stuff is white and comes in a
bag
that will make a billion trees for $1.29. I stretch a small clump of it
around
a twig of a bush that grows in my apartment complex and spray paint the
white
fiber green. I then spray it with the cheapest hairspray I can find
($1.50 or
so) and sprinkle on fine ground foam available at hobby shops for a couple
of
bucks a bag. The small bags will make about 20-30 trees.
I usually set up a production line and make 20 trees at a time, with
various
colors of ground foam. I use a sheet of styrofoam to stick the trunks
into
while spray painting and sprinkling.
The magazine articles will give you the pictures you need to see what I'm
talking about, and more detail. What I do differntly is use the really
cheap
fiber fill and spray paint.
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kelley wittmeyer
dept of atmospheric science
colorado state university
Brian Edward Macmillan
Hello,
I want to create a lake and a river on my layout in HO scale.
Does anyone have any tips on material and techniques. I have
read about resin (?) pouring but was wondering if anybody did
something else to get a good lake. Like use a sheet of glass or
plastic painted or something else.
Thanks,
Brian
mac...@rpi.edu
David Wahl
In article <!jxs...@rpi.edu>, mac...@aix.rpi.edu (Brian Edward Macmillan) writes:
|> I want to create a lake and a river on my layout in HO scale.
|> Does anyone have any tips on material and techniques. I have
|> read about resin (?) pouring but was wondering if anybody did
|> something else to get a good lake. Like use a sheet of glass or
|> plastic painted or something else.
I think resin is the only way to go. It's not expensive or hard to use.
I do think it is best to practice with a couple of small samples in your
garage before you build a lake on the train board, just to build confidence
with it.
The problem is that real water has texture and depth, and I don't think you
can get anything as interesting with glass or plastic.
Regards,
Dave Wahl
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william.e.yoder
> --
> In article <!jxs...@rpi.edu>, mac...@aix.rpi.edu (Brian Edward Macmillan) writes:
> |> I want to create a lake and a river on my layout in HO scale.
> |> Does anyone have any tips on material and techniques. I have
> |> read about resin (?) pouring but was wondering if anybody did
> |> something else to get a good lake. Like use a sheet of glass or
> |> plastic painted or something else.
>
has a minimum of fumes. The key to successful use is to paint the
lake surface correctly, showing depth. Color it dark in the middle and
lighter at the edges. I tend to use shades of green from dark (almost
black) to a tannish.
For modeling running water, I have used Red Devil caulking. They have a
brand that dries very clear and can simulate movement and depth by
coloring underneath and some white dashes on top of the caulking.
Bill Yoder
Anthony Edward Prattico
In article <!jxs...@rpi.edu>, mac...@aix.rpi.edu (Brian Edward Macmillan) writes:
|> I want to create a lake and a river on my layout in HO scale.
|> Does anyone have any tips on material and techniques. I have
|> read about resin (?) pouring but was wondering if anybody did
|> something else to get a good lake. Like use a sheet of glass or
|> plastic painted or something else.
> I think resin is the only way to go. It's not expensive or hard to use.
> I do think it is best to practice with a couple of small samples in your
> garage before you build a lake on the train board, just to build confidence
> with it.
>
> The problem is that real water has texture and depth, and I don't think you
> can get anything as interesting with glass or plastic.
>
> Regards,
> Dave Wahl
>
If you really want to use glass, take a look at the Kalmbach book _HO_Railroad_
That_Grows_. In it, the authors describe how they made a small pond using a
sheet of class.
However, I must agree that polyester resin does produce the best looking
results.
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Anthony Prattico pra...@rpi.edu Anthony_...@mts.rpi.edu
John A. Purbrick
Inarticle <!jxs...@rpi.edu>, mac...@aix.rpi.edu (Brian Edward Macmillan) writes:
> |> I want to create a lake and a river on my layout in HO scale.
> |> Does anyone have any tips on material and techniques. I have
> |> read about resin (?) pouring but was wondering if anybody did
> |> something else to get a good lake. Like use a sheet of glass or
> |> plastic painted or something else.
>
I suspect that pictures in magazines are misleading because when you see
something in 3-d you get an idea of depth, whereas on a flat page a flat
object looks perfectly OK as long as it's appropriately colored.
Railroad Model Craftsman had 2 articles last year(?) with water effects that
I really liked; one was an N scale model of a bridge in Vietnam made for the
movie "Flight of the Intruder"; the water was painted on linoleum and the
shallow water shaded off into a deep greenish-purple very realistically from
an aerial view. The other was a dockside layout set in New York, with water
made from rippled-glass shower doors, with gray-green paint on the back.
Resin can look great if it's colored right and you can live with the smell as
it sets, but it has an annoying tendency to climb up the side of its container
or anything left partially immersed (boats, bridge piers etc).
--
John Purbrick
jp...@lcs.mit.edu [preferred]
bi...@cleveland.freenet.edu [also works]
Ricky Glass
>In article <57...@shodha.enet.dec.com>, wa...@merton.enet.dec.com (David Wahl) writes:
>> --
>> In article <!jxs...@rpi.edu>, mac...@aix.rpi.edu (Brian Edward Macmillan) writes:
>> |> I want to create a lake and a river on my layout in HO scale.
>> |> Does anyone have any tips on material and techniques. I have
>> |> read about resin (?) pouring but was wondering if anybody did
>> |> something else to get a good lake. Like use a sheet of glass or
>> |> plastic painted or something else.
>>
>For making a lake, I have used Envirotex-Lite. It works real easy, and
>has a minimum of fumes. The key to successful use is to paint the
>lake surface correctly, showing depth. Color it dark in the middle and
>lighter at the edges. I tend to use shades of green from dark (almost
>black) to a tannish.
and blue die so one can make various colors and forms of pond scum. :-)
I never used the die but the wax made excellent ice blocks for my G
scale ice house.
Ricky
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