Clicked on your video just because I was amazed you made so many. The ending shot of your setup did not disappoint! That's so many hand-made trees! What an unbelievable amount of work.
Oh man. Just kind of stumbled onto this video. Am I glad I did! I have created "Puffball" trees from fiber fill material, I have used large pipe cleaners as skinny evergreens, and tried creating other foliage using different techniques. This has to be one of the best ways to create larger evergreens. (I also model in N Scale.) I know of a couple places on my little 2x3 foot Hammer Valley model RR that will be prime locations for these. I am also building some T-Trak modules. These will work great on some of them. A little time, patience and small cost can yield a great tree collection. Thank you so much for sharing this treasure with us.
This is best video I've seen on how to make these trees. The technique was explained, I recall, in Model Railroader magazine about 1983. Amazingly realistic!
Excellent! I used the same material / technique without the flocking and extra trimming. Your trees look much better and I'll give my trees the extra treatment.
The answer that makes a big problem manageable! And beautiful results. I'm starting a new HOn3 Rocky Mountain layout and your technique will make it practical to have many good looking trees.Thanks!
Absolutely wonderful video! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I’m modeling an N scale logging road so I’ll probably be making trees in my sleep!
I’m going through my history and noticed I never finished this off... I “ops’d” And didn’t fully coat some of mine in spray paint and when I went to mat them I noticed and LOVED the looks one the ones with only some spots of blue showing, it gives a good Blue Spruce look!
Thank you, so much. I'm planning out a woodland Halloween diorama, and this is exactly what I've been looking for. My foreground will be 1:24 scale, and using mildly forced perspective, my mountainside will be approximately H.O. scale and your trees are perfect and so realistic. Again, thank you for this video.
Fantastic how to vidio.Really nice seeing different ways to make them.My grandson loves helping me make trees also and is so much better making them besides they look so much when you know how to make them
It was a Camo Green. A color that is on the darker side. But it can vary some from area to area. Pick a color that is close to the style of trees that you like. Thanks for your comment. Have fun.
Excellent video and well done technique. I have many hundreds to make for a large HO scale mountain railroad. I would estimate at least 400 to 500 hundred. I hope I'll have the energy to get that task done when I get to that stage of building. Your trees look great, especially when they are all grouped together making dense areas of tree growth. Well done.... Philip
Thanks Philip. You can do it. Mother Nature take a while to make them as well. LoL. . . just got to do it one at a time, or in a production line, it cuts a little bit of time. Good Luck, keep us updated.
@@TrainDetailsbyGuss Thanks Karin and Guss for the encouragement and reply. Now the colder weather is coming here in the US (New Jersey) I will be working on the layout again, so I will give it a try once I get the materials. I have made some with twisted floral wire in a drill before, which look great too, but looking for the technique where I can mass produce them. Your method yields excellent results. and you explain it in clear detail. Thanks again for the reply. I will keep you posted..... Philip
My goodness ,those are some great looking trees and the overall forest is most impressive....absolutely awesome !!!!!! Ilove making my own trees and making them look as realistic as possible.I live in Canada and modeled my N scale railroad in Autumn ,so plenty of nice fall colours (but not too bright ,don`t want them to look fake) The fall trees look great in amongst the assorted pine trees. Paul T
Wow! Those are really good looking trees, makes me want to do a forest sence on my layout, but I'm modeling southwest desert, but really like your trees....thanks for sharing....Jack 🥰
I model on the cheap. I make all my own ground scatter (flocking) out of either sawdust that gets coloured in the electric coffee grinder my wife gave me for modeling, or foam rubber done same way in the coffee grinder. That way you can control the colours and the granularity of your finished product. I also make my own iron oxide (rust) by soaking about 4 pieces of 0000 steel wool in a quart jar with white vinegar. After about a month sitting in the window, I pour the mixture into a large pan (I use my old 11" x 14" stainless steel photo fixer trays when I had a darkroom) or baking dish and wait for the mixture to completely dry (usually about 2 to 3 weeks). Then I take a single edge razor blade and pulverize the contents into a fine powder and store it in little tins. Each batch I've done comes out a little different in colour. Then you use the rust as you would any weathering powder or chalk. It looks real, 'cause it IS real rust! I also colour my own chalk with acrylic paint and food colouring. I never buy weathering powders. Instead, I go to the dollar store and buy women's makeup in the little plastic containers. For $1.00 you can get quite a collection of different colours and they adhere better than weathering powders. For trees, I use the Nandena bush after the little red berries fall off, it leaves a perfect tree trunk (armature). I also have a TON of lichen growing out back on the hill behind my house. When using the Nandena bush tree armatures, you can paint them whatever colour you want--even grey for aspen trees. Cover the armatures with lichen, seafoam or whatever you want, then add your own home-made flocking and you're done. For pine trees, I use florist wire (wrapped) doubled and bits of jute cut in1 to 1 1/2" laid in the wire, then using a drill, twist the wire while holding the other end in a pair of pliers.. I also use barbeque bamboo skewers with pig hair (horse hair) furnace filters (they're already green); have to paint the skewers first. And I never use spray paint since I use my airbrush for all my painting. I can use either acrylic or oil base paints; I usually use one airbrush for acrylic and the other one for oil base paints. Cheers from W Rusty Lane K9POW in eastern Tennessee
Where do you buy the "Filtrete basic " material? When I search for it all I see is the pleated type not the fibrous material you use, their website doesn't show it as an item that is available???
Very cool! Thank you so much for sharing. What is the "paint booth" at 7:24? I mean how was the blue filter material painted green? Did you spray them, dip them or brush the green paint on? And what kind of paint?
Thanks t wright, The paint booth is nothing more than in the garage or in the backyard, using a 'rattle can' shown at 1:03. The trees were can Sprayed. And at this point you can make it 'personal' to the location you are modeling by using a color that most represents those trees. Karin used a color named Camouflage as her color of choice. ( see it at 1:03) .Thanks.
Hi, are you Americans im from England and have been looking for the filter material, but can only find the basic in America, where the cost of postage to the UK is horrendous, anyone know of a supplier in the UK, super trees you made, and i need thousands, i could do with you here LOL Thanks Tony
@@TrainDetailsbyGuss Thank you for replying, i dont know what the actual postage is, just what they were charging, the reason i asked if you were American was that Karen sounded English to me, i spent several more hours searching for for the filter, but to no avail, tremendous video you have made, thank you for showing. Tony
At :31 there is a pic showing FILTRETE basic, it is a Furnace Filter that is sold in a bulk state. Cut to fit sorta. It is about 1" thick . . That is cut into the squares that you see being pulled over the skewers. Hope that helps you. Thanks.
Bill, yes they are. . .after the skewer work, they are lightly painted to cover the blue material. Then the ground foam is used with the hair spray to give the trees a thicker look. Thanks for asking.
I wonder how many father's & daughter's will be fighting over the hair spray 😀 . Mom dad has my hair spray . No honey it's mine I bought . You two need to share !
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Love this technique going to have to try it
Thanks Robert. Good Luck.
Good job Karin
Tree making made simple, easy to follow and by far one of the best, if not the best, I have yet to come across. Thank you!
Wow, thank you!
Well, I'm glad that was in my feed because that's what I'm going to use for my N scale trees. Thank you!
Perfect!
The final shots look amazing! Very realistic looking forests
Glad you like them!
Very nice and so real trees and landscape ,, beautiful ,, ❤❤❤❤❤ madam ,,, wonderful art work.
Thank you! Cheers!
Clicked on your video just because I was amazed you made so many. The ending shot of your setup did not disappoint! That's so many hand-made trees! What an unbelievable amount of work.
Thank You. Karin has made A TON. . .
Amazing imagination and creativity. Awesome.
Thank You very much. you are too kind.
Thank you. That was very helpful. I’m going to my trees your way.
Have fun!
Great video. This is the only way I make them now. Thank you.
Thanks. MY wife asked me to make some skinny trees, I posted a video on making skinny trees. The forest has Many varieties.
Great tutorial, thank you for sharing with us
You’re welcome 😊
Oh man. Just kind of stumbled onto this video. Am I glad I did! I have created "Puffball" trees from fiber fill material, I have used large pipe cleaners as skinny evergreens, and tried creating other foliage using different techniques. This has to be one of the best ways to create larger evergreens. (I also model in N Scale.)
I know of a couple places on my little 2x3 foot Hammer Valley model RR that will be prime locations for these. I am also building some T-Trak modules. These will work great on some of them.
A little time, patience and small cost can yield a great tree collection. Thank you so much for sharing this treasure with us.
Glad that you stumbled in. Welcome! These trees are a great way to cover a hillside. Thanks for your remarks.
Excellent video.
Beautiful job
Thank You.
Great How-to!!!!! I think it is the best of all the ones I watched......I'm off to Lowes right now!!! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for doing this tutorial... i just bought all the ingredients... let's start making some trees
What are you waiting for, get those trees made. 👍
@@TrainDetailsbyGuss 😊... i did 4 or 5 already ... i'm improving by the minute 😁... i wish i couls send you pics of my creations
@@raspa2000 email is. . . . . .detailsbyguss@gmail.com . . . .love to see them.
This is best video I've seen on how to make these trees. The technique was explained, I recall, in Model Railroader magazine about 1983. Amazingly realistic!
Thank you very much!
They’re wonderful. Thank you 😊
Glad you like them!
Nice and new for me is this marvelous inventife tutorial. With a splendid looking pinetree at the end of the process, just great to watch
Many thanks!
Wow spent so much time using this stuff for hedges while buying chinese pine trees. Consider me converted!.
Well welcome to this side. . . hahahah. I hope you can use the info Dragon shine. Thanks
They look great!
Thanks.
excellent looking trees with very inexpensive materials! Thanks for the clear instructions, these look greatand look fairly simple to make!
Many thanks
Awesome 👍
Beautiful work
This layout is beautiful. I love how many trees there are. Looking at that mountain feels real.
Thanks geocraftsman, Karin has done a fabulous job and the layout looks Great.
I'm building deciduous right now but I have saved this for when I come back to pine. Thank you for such a thorough explanation!
Thank You . Good luck and share your Trees.
Excellent! I used the same material / technique without the flocking and extra trimming. Your trees look much better and I'll give my trees the extra treatment.
Cprtrain, Thank you. . I found that even that small detail does yield some great results. . Good luck. .
Very impressive
Great video!! Thank you. I'll definitely be building some of these.
Wow, maybe the best forests I've seen on model railroads. Not to mention the scenery to backdrop transition is amazing.
Thank You, Karin has done an INCREDIBLE job putting this forest together.
Great video! Very helpful! Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Love this. Thank you for the wonderfully clear instructions. I'm excited to go make some trees now!
thanks for sharing..I will be most definately be using your method
Love how dense the forest looks.. I will be making many trees... thank you for the tutorial.
Thanks Rob, Let us know how your project works out.
The answer that makes a big problem manageable! And beautiful results. I'm starting a new HOn3 Rocky Mountain layout and your technique will make it practical to have many good looking trees.Thanks!
Thanks Curt, Let us know how your layout progresses.
Well done Karen you do a superb job 👍
Absolutely wonderful video! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I’m modeling an N scale logging road so I’ll probably be making trees in my sleep!
Thank You.
Very clever and effective method. Really liked how the trees turned out, thanks for sharing.
Wow that was easy
Glad you agree. Thanks.
Love the look of the overall forest. Looks like a lot of work and time went in to it. Fortunate no clear cutting to run power lines!👍
There was talk at one time, but they were told to go pound sand. LoL. hahahahahahah. Thanks for your comment.
Excellent! Thanks very much. I have a lot of HO pine trees in my future, and this technique will help temendously.
Great, i hope it works well for you. .
I’m going through my history and noticed I never finished this off... I “ops’d” And didn’t fully coat some of mine in spray paint and when I went to mat them I noticed and LOVED the looks one the ones with only some spots of blue showing, it gives a good Blue Spruce look!
I do mine in many shapes, trying to give less uniformity to them like you’d see in nature itself
Excellent. that little difference in coloring can make a difference. Good Job, thanks for the update.
@@TrainDetailsbyGuss i discovered early in building terrain that highlights can make and break a look. 🙂
Bravo ! A well demonstrated pine tree production. Thanks for sharing !
Thank you Filip 36, I hope it helps. . .
Hi guys ! I'm constructing a new layout, I'll send you a photo of it.
Thank you, so much. I'm planning out a woodland Halloween diorama, and this is exactly what I've been looking for. My foreground will be 1:24 scale, and using mildly forced perspective, my mountainside will be approximately H.O. scale and your trees are perfect and so realistic. Again, thank you for this video.
You are welcome Tom. Its Halloween. . How did your diorama work out? Love to see it.
Fantastic technique and great tutorial...well done thanks for sharing this with us and God bless
very well explained, thank you for sharing. Those trees look awesome
shazsplat , thank you very much, appreicate your feedback. . .
Thank you for the awesome video :)
Glad you liked it!
Awesome grand ma..
Awesome! thank you for the great tree lesson!!!
Thank You.
Fantastic, I will have to try this, thank You so much!
You are very Welcome.
Fantastic how to vidio.Really nice seeing different ways to make them.My grandson loves helping me make trees also and is so much better making them besides they look so much when you know how to make them
Thanks Robert, Have fun with that Grandson. . . .
Watching in 2024, but this is a fantastic method and high quality tutorial. What color did you paint the branches? Thanks for sharing your tips!
It was a Camo Green. A color that is on the darker side. But it can vary some from area to area. Pick a color that is close to the style of trees that you like. Thanks for your comment. Have fun.
Muy bueno, gracias por mostrarnos otra forma de hacer arbolitos
Excellent video and well done technique.
I have many hundreds to make for a large HO scale mountain railroad. I would estimate at least 400 to 500 hundred. I hope I'll have the energy to get that task done when I get to that stage of building. Your trees look great, especially when they are all grouped together making dense areas of tree growth. Well done....
Philip
Thanks Philip. You can do it. Mother Nature take a while to make them as well. LoL. . . just got to do it one at a time, or in a production line, it cuts a little bit of time. Good Luck, keep us updated.
@@TrainDetailsbyGuss Thanks Karin and Guss for the encouragement and reply. Now the colder weather is coming here in the US (New Jersey) I will be working on the layout again, so I will give it a try once I get the materials. I have made some with twisted floral wire in a drill before, which look great too, but looking for the technique where I can mass produce them. Your method yields excellent results. and you explain it in clear detail. Thanks again for the reply. I will keep you posted.....
Philip
@@uptownphotography Let us know how it goes.
@@TrainDetailsbyGuss Surely....Thanks.
My goodness ,those are some great looking trees and the overall forest is most impressive....absolutely awesome !!!!!! Ilove making my own trees and making them look as realistic as possible.I live in Canada and modeled my N scale railroad in Autumn ,so plenty of nice fall colours (but not too bright ,don`t want them to look fake) The fall trees look great in amongst the assorted pine trees.
Paul T
Thanks Paul. Karin has done a Fabulous job. Making them NOT look fake is the goal. Thanks for your comment.
Fantastic demo. This will save my wallet.
Nice 👍
Have a great day
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Thanks for the Sub. Much appreciated.
Hello! Very good works very realistc aspect thanks for your video.
Hello, great tutorial. Great results. She should sell them. Thanks.
Wow! Those are really good looking trees, makes me want to do a forest sence on my layout, but I'm modeling southwest desert, but really like your trees....thanks for sharing....Jack 🥰
Thanks Jack. You gotta make sagebrush. . lol . . .
@@TrainDetailsbyGuss YES, & lots of it too!👍
that's a lot of trees!
I model on the cheap. I make all my own ground scatter (flocking) out of either sawdust that gets coloured in the electric coffee grinder my wife gave me for modeling, or foam rubber done same way in the coffee grinder. That way you can control the colours and the granularity of your finished product. I also make my own iron oxide (rust) by soaking about 4 pieces of 0000 steel wool in a quart jar with white vinegar. After about a month sitting in the window, I pour the mixture into a large pan (I use my old 11" x 14" stainless steel photo fixer trays when I had a darkroom) or baking dish and wait for the mixture to completely dry (usually about 2 to 3 weeks). Then I take a single edge razor blade and pulverize the contents into a fine powder and store it in little tins. Each batch I've done comes out a little different in colour. Then you use the rust as you would any weathering powder or chalk. It looks real, 'cause it IS real rust! I also colour my own chalk with acrylic paint and food colouring. I never buy weathering powders. Instead, I go to the dollar store and buy women's makeup in the little plastic containers. For $1.00 you can get quite a collection of different colours and they adhere better than weathering powders.
For trees, I use the Nandena bush after the little red berries fall off, it leaves a perfect tree trunk (armature). I also have a TON of lichen growing out back on the hill behind my house. When using the Nandena bush tree armatures, you can paint them whatever colour you want--even grey for aspen trees. Cover the armatures with lichen, seafoam or whatever you want, then add your own home-made flocking and you're done. For pine trees, I use florist wire (wrapped) doubled and bits of jute cut in1 to 1 1/2" laid in the wire, then using a drill, twist the wire while holding the other end in a pair of pliers.. I also use barbeque bamboo skewers with pig hair (horse hair) furnace filters (they're already green); have to paint the skewers first. And I never use spray paint since I use my airbrush for all my painting. I can use either acrylic or oil base paints; I usually use one airbrush for acrylic and the other one for oil base paints. Cheers from W Rusty Lane K9POW in eastern Tennessee
Thanks W Rusty Lane, your post is a wealth of knowledge, and is much appreciated. Thank you for your comments.
MEEKNESS !!
TYVM M'LADY !!
EPIC TUTORIAL.
I am wondering how well DIY SODIUM SILICATE might replace Hairspray.
Easily, far less expense.
TY. . . . You are very kind.
Buenas noches muy completo tu video me encanta lo que haces y lo utilizo para mis belenes gracias por compartir desde colombia
interesting and awesome way ! great and fastidious work ! but the result is fantastic ! lovit ! jy
Karin has done and continues to do a Great job. Thank You.
Great tutorial, thanks for sharing. :)
bonsaikathy, Thank You.
Awesome!!!!!
Thank you. Since you like mining, Did you see my underground Gold Mine model? ua-cam.com/video/sb28sY93qTU/v-deo.html
Lo azul, que material es???? gracias por el video
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I've been waiting for this great ideas, that foam looks like a polyester foam cushion pad to me, can we make this for 1/64 scale?
Sure you can. Just use Skewers or Dowels that are the scale size of trunks that you need, and cut the 'squares' a bit larger. Good luck.
Where do you buy the "Filtrete basic " material? When I search for it all I see is the pleated type not the fibrous material you use, their website doesn't show it as an item that is available???
Larry , Did you find it? It is near the end of the search pages.
She has an interesting dialect. Where is she from?
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Very cool! Thank you so much for sharing. What is the "paint booth" at 7:24? I mean how was the blue filter material painted green? Did you spray them, dip them or brush the green paint on? And what kind of paint?
Thanks t wright, The paint booth is nothing more than in the garage or in the backyard, using a 'rattle can' shown at 1:03. The trees were can Sprayed. And at this point you can make it 'personal' to the location you are modeling by using a color that most represents those trees. Karin used a color named Camouflage as her color of choice. ( see it at 1:03) .Thanks.
@@TrainDetailsbyGuss Awesome, thanks again! Looking forward to trying it!
Very nice layout!my question :what is the blue material that you use for forming the shape of the pine
Guaard Sky, It is a product called Filterete Basic. Comes in a sheet that can be cut easily.
It has been added to the video notes. Amaz, link.
Do you sell some of your pine trees for N scale
I have not sold any. You are the first to have asked me.
Hi, are you Americans im from England and have been looking for the filter material, but can only find the basic in America, where the cost of postage to the UK is horrendous, anyone know of a supplier in the UK, super trees you made, and i need thousands, i could do with you here LOL
Thanks Tony
Thanks Tony, Sorry about the postage thingy. Is it also expensive if I send it? or is that just what they charge to ship it?
@@TrainDetailsbyGuss Thank you for replying, i dont know what the actual postage is, just what they were charging, the reason i asked if you were American was that Karen sounded English to me, i spent several more hours searching for for the filter, but to no avail, tremendous video you have made, thank you for showing. Tony
Hey Tony, Look in the video *show more* portion, There is an amazon link to the filter.
@@TrainDetailsbyGuss Hi Gus no one can deliver to my location + plus its out of stock, thanks , ill keep looking
@@TrainDetailsbyGuss They dont ship to England
What was that blue stuff you made the trees out of?
At :31 there is a pic showing FILTRETE basic, it is a Furnace Filter that is sold in a bulk state. Cut to fit sorta. It is about 1" thick . . That is cut into the squares that you see being pulled over the skewers. Hope that helps you. Thanks.
The Amaz link has been added to the video notes.
Are the trees initially painted with the camouflage brown?
Bill, yes they are. . .after the skewer work, they are lightly painted to cover the blue material. Then the ground foam is used with the hair spray to give the trees a thicker look. Thanks for asking.
I wonder how many father's & daughter's will be fighting over the hair spray 😀 . Mom dad has my hair spray . No honey it's mine I bought . You two need to share !
That's why Dad has a Train Room with drawers to store the 'supplies ' , which is usually the cheap stuff. . LoL.
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Very nice and so real trees and landscape ,, beautiful ,, ❤❤❤❤❤ madam ,,, wonderful art work.
Thank you so much 😀