Comments on: Spruce Trees from Scrub Pads

By: scott

scott — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:05:03 +0000

nice trees, here is a tech to make really large blue spruce, go to a craft store and buy casparia that is dries, pick off the stems with the dried flower at the ends left on and dip in matt medium and sprinkle with fine foam, when dried spray with revlon hair spray so as to flock the weak or missed areas, when dry respray. now get a pice of 3/8 balsa wood a sand to be round then taper the tip and now take a coarse file and run up and down all side of the trunk to give it a rough look, now decide the lowest level you want branches and make a small whole and glue the branch in place with goo glue and work around clock wise or counter clock wise, when done mover up to the next level making it shorter and continue on up, i have make many of these it took me 18 hours of work to make one tree but it looks real and you will need approximately 290 holes so that mean 290 branches for a 12 inch tree

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:53:06 +0000

Ha! Hi Wayne and Michael!

Great looking trees Michael! I do something similar with the furnace filter. The best thing is to not make them too uniform and regular – especially for black spruce which usually have a few sparse branches lower down the trunk and a clump near the top.

Scott

By: Model Railroader

Model Railroader — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:21:08 +0000

Thanks Wayne – added your site to my blogroll!

By: Wayne Woodland

Wayne Woodland — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:18:01 +0000

Hi Michael;
Found your site through a comment post on Scott,s Bayside and Tidewater blog. You sure have a neat looking site. I had a quick look around and will come back often to visit. I have a blogsite as well if your intrested in taking a quick look. There is a link on Scott’s blog. Cheers.

Wayne