One thousand trees = a tiny hill
Apr 16, 2016 Filed in: Scenery
At my recent Thursday night work session, we made polyfiber trees. Oh, boy! did we make trees! Two solid hours of spray adhesive and dipping into ground foam. I had previously formed the polyfiber trees balls - I take a bag of fiber along with me while I railfan, and I pass the time between trains making the tree shapes.
At the end of the night, we had seemingly a thousand green tree balls (yes, there were plenty of 'ball' jokes that night). You would think that all those trees would be plenty to cover a vast expanse on the layout but, in reality, all those trees don't go as far as you might think.
So my advice to the prospective layout owner is: model the desert!!! Barring that, get starting making polyfiber trees!
Steve enjoys the fine fragrance of solvent-based adhesive
Teamwork is important as the sprayer hands off the proto-tree to the dipper
At the end of the night, we had seemingly a thousand green tree balls (yes, there were plenty of 'ball' jokes that night). You would think that all those trees would be plenty to cover a vast expanse on the layout but, in reality, all those trees don't go as far as you might think.
So my advice to the prospective layout owner is: model the desert!!! Barring that, get starting making polyfiber trees!
Steve enjoys the fine fragrance of solvent-based adhesive
Teamwork is important as the sprayer hands off the proto-tree to the dipper