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 Posted - April 14 2016 : 8:08:46 PM
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Saw a video on how to make trees with Woodland Scenic Armatures, twine and coarse turf. Here is the results.
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Posted - April 14 2016 : 10:28:53 PM
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They're a good representation of open growth trees. They'd look good in a lawn or pasture.
Carpe Manana!
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Posted - April 14 2016 : 11:15:09 PM
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| Those would make a nice orchard tree as well.
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Posted - April 14 2016 : 11:26:49 PM
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Impressive looking tree. The unadorned ones on top
closely resemble most trees extant in El Paso.
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Posted - May 09 2016 : 01:52:27 AM
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I looked up that video and others on how to make trees and ever since then my mind has been on search mode for anything that might look like a tree, but in miniature. Some how the entire time I missed that one of my bonsai, a bush called wire netting bush, Corokia cotoneaster, has the perfect tiny brances for making HO scale trees, I had recently got a bag of course green turf from the thrift store for $1.99 and took today to make me some trees, the tallest one is 7 inches and smallest about 3 ¾ inches. I used white glue to attach the stems to root/trunk bases I made from a product called Das Pronto paper clay, when it dries I will paint it the color of the stems. I used white glue on all the parts of the stems I wanted greenery and after it was tacky attached the course green turf. I got 8 trees made and have enough turf for two small trees or one large tree.  
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Posted - May 09 2016 : 8:47:45 PM
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| Those branches do look ideal for certain types of trees. I can see those almost like windswept cypress along the pacific coast.
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Posted - May 09 2016 : 9:01:28 PM
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I redone some trees a while back. Here is the bare tree to the full tree, done by using Woodland Scenic turf.... The third tree is an odd ball Life-Like Spring tree in never seen before color...
Edited by - walt on May 09 2016 9:02:27 PM
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Posted - September 13 2016 : 9:18:12 PM
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I watched a video on how to make HO trees using #28 gauge green florist wire. I have a roll of #28 gauge green florist wire, so thought that I would give it a try. I cut four pieces in length of 20", 14", 10", 8" and 6", bundled them together leaving the loop at the bottom to become the roots. With a pair of pliers I twisted the wires to make the trunk, from then on I mostly used my fingers to twist the wire for the branches. I separated the pieces into their length, longest being the central lead trunk. The ends are reversed back creating a loop and that loop is twisted into two more loops like a figure eight and so on, that creates the branches. The tiny loops at the end are snipped and bent out to make the branch tips. My first one took about two hours but that included painting the trunk and putting the foliage on it, second one took about 15 minutes to make and third one I started for the example of what the twisted wire looked like. The roots are done the same way.      
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