Readers Submits Easy Model Tree Building Idea

February 9, 2010

Max has submitted an idea he would like to share with others in the hobby:

“Experimenting the other day I managed to make some not exactly great, but easy and cheap, trees. Buy a nice bunch of grapes and some fluffy pom poms (green for spring, brown for autumn). Eat the grapes and leave the stalk in one big piece. After it dries it will turn brown and will break easily, so bend the stalks at the angles and directions you desire before it dries. After they are dried, rip up the fluff from the pom poms. Strech it out into a thin layer of green and loosely wrap around the outside of the trees. The fluff should stick to the ends of the stalks. You can add more fluff in the thin patches if required. They only take a minute each and I have about 30 of them sitting in the middle of my train set. I have not tried many colours, but the light green I use looks a little unrealistic when the light shines through it.”

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