02-25-2012, 01:30 PM
When at a hobby shop on vacation they had a pack of WS tree armatures on the clearance table for $5. There are three sizes at 3,4 and 5 inch which means the largest is barely a mature tree in N scale at appox. 65 feet (the forest canopy in these parts is around 85 foot I believe) but all trees in a forest aren't mature so I figured if I mix em' in with the others they will be O.K. All of these trees regardless of size have the same branch structure and even if you bend the branches in different directions pretty much if you plant several of these together your forest will start to look like it was cloned ! 
When you remove the dorky base you lose about a half inch but the foilage gets the height back. Because the tree is a fakey, shiny brown color the first thing I did was spray it flat black after I had shaped it. Then I dry burshed it with some gray and blended it with some chalks (darker gray and reddish brown).
When you remove the dorky base you lose about a half inch but the foilage gets the height back. Because the tree is a fakey, shiny brown color the first thing I did was spray it flat black after I had shaped it. Then I dry burshed it with some gray and blended it with some chalks (darker gray and reddish brown).
Mike
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