Hey Chris, Luke has sone great content. For another master modler I highly recommend is Boomer Diorama. Although I model in O, Boomer is building a HO shelf layout. His scratch built trees are second to none. This guy is an actual artist. He lives in Canada and models scale 100' trees for his HO layout. Apparently he receives criticism his trees are out of scale and he assures them that they are to scale because the trees in Canada are huge. He uses floral wire and only artist mediums and claims his trees will take abuse, not shed, stays pliable, and compatible with acrylic paints. He scratch builds everything on his layout. He even molds his own HO animals out of clay. His layout is very realistic looking. He even customizes his locomotives and rolling stock. His layout is called River Road. He's currently completely scratch building the River Princess ferry out of Evergreen styrene. It's a barge that ferries train cars which is part of his layout. He does awesome work.
Nice looking trees but how about bigger trees like scale 30ft trees the same method work for them I would like my trees to tower above my trains as they go through a forest
This looks nice, but trees are a pet peeve of mine. Most model railroaders horribly undersize the trees. In my back yard the average height of the trees is between 60-80 feet. That would be 15"-20" in O scale. Little baby trees look unrealistic IMHO.
Hey Chris, Luke has sone great content. For another master modler I highly recommend is Boomer Diorama. Although I model in O, Boomer is building a HO shelf layout. His scratch built trees are second to none. This guy is an actual artist. He lives in Canada and models scale 100' trees for his HO layout. Apparently he receives criticism his trees are out of scale and he assures them that they are to scale because the trees in Canada are huge. He uses floral wire and only artist mediums and claims his trees will take abuse, not shed, stays pliable, and compatible with acrylic paints. He scratch builds everything on his layout. He even molds his own HO animals out of clay. His layout is very realistic looking. He even customizes his locomotives and rolling stock. His layout is called River Road. He's currently completely scratch building the River Princess ferry out of Evergreen styrene. It's a barge that ferries train cars which is part of his layout. He does awesome work.
Thanks Chris, this is the next step for me in building my layout.
Nice looking trees but how about bigger trees like scale 30ft trees the same method work for them I would like my trees to tower above my trains as they go through a forest
Nice trees , could I ask what is the overall height of the finished tree please
These come out to about 4 inches. Of course you can make
Them larger and any shape based on how long you make the wires.
@@ChrissTrainsandThings Thank you
This looks nice, but trees are a pet peeve of mine. Most model railroaders horribly undersize the trees. In my back yard the average height of the trees is between 60-80 feet. That would be 15"-20" in O scale. Little baby trees look unrealistic IMHO.