Foliage Friday

Wow that’s some beautiful scenery...perhaps you can share how you make your trees?

Great pictures Frank, always enjoy your presentations.  I need to add more trees to my layout, I'll have to check with the Magooville town council for funding.

Rickpsp posted:

Wow that’s some beautiful scenery...perhaps you can share how you make your trees?

Thank you, Rickpsp.

I don't make trees, although I have cut some trees down to represent younger and/or shorter trees and some shrubbery. Most are available from Jim Elster's Scenic Express, as is most of the low  foliage individually.

Jim has a wonderful variety of foliage available, on-line and at his stand at shows and meets.

FrankM

Some of these trees have been found by happenstance at shows where I had gone to browse and buy.

OK Frank, even though it's only Thursday, I'll bite. I really like your pine trees, so realistic!

I just started scenery last year. This scene has over 100 Woodland Scenics trees. Still needs work. 

I couldn't just pick one season for my layout, so I'm going to do all four.

Mayor Magoo. That is a very handsome vista! Particularly enjoyable are the realistic bend in the roadway, the realistic emplacement of rural buildings and details, and especially the very realistic pylon for that elevated rail-line. The cement looks like, well, exactly like real cement, aged, stained, rough-hewn, a bit, and strong.

Very cool.

FrankM

This is going to be a good thread. Perhaps small "how to's" with the photos????????.

Joe

Hi Big Boy 4005 / Elliot, Good to hear from you here. Of course, I follow your ongoing thread as you continue to construct your fantastic layout. I am so glad you decided to share your plans, ruminations, and progress, all along the way with us here on OGR.

I recall seeing the wonderful steep hillside you are sharing with us here when you first began it. Seeing it now so fully fleshed-out is a real treat. It looks very appropriate and very realistic. Anybody who has driven along some of the Interstate highways in Pennsylvania or in the Northeast USA knows what you have modeled there is spot-on and real.

FrankM

Thanks Frank. Actually, both scenes are from right along the Mississippi River in the Twin Cities.

I agree Joe, this is going to be good.    Frank M, Mayor Magoo & Eliot,  great looking scenes.   I'll post some more as time goes on, here's what I have this AM. 

Photos 1,2,3 are my latest home made pine tree efforts after watching some videos on youtube and making some adjustments...    I posted some details about this in the following post:  

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...04#83086529565722804

Photos 4 thru 7 are a combination of puff ball trees and Scenic Express Super Trees

I have also re-purposed some old school Lichen shrub scenery...  Had too many bags to discard it. So I sprayed it with adhesive and started coating it with the Super Leaf material as well as the really fine turf scenery material...   I'll take some photos close up and post them for anyone interested,  it definitely makes the Lichen look more like shrubs and scruff vegetation. 

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Moonson posted:

Mayor Magoo. That is a very handsome vista! Particularly enjoyable are the realistic bend in the roadway, the realistic emplacement of rural buildings and details, and especially the very realistic pylon for that elevated rail-line. The cement looks like, well, exactly like real cement, aged, stained, rough-hewn, a bit, and strong.

Very cool.

FrankM

Thank you Frank. The 'cement' pylon is a piece of 2x4 wrapped with a picture of a cement wall I found on the googles.  The only trick for me was in cutting it down to size and gluing carefully so that I could get rid of all the air bubbles.

Frank, 

Thank you for starting this thread. Your work is, well, top shelf. Steve, Eliot, and Chris, excellent work.

Andy

Some fantastic foliage spouting here on this thread!  Beautiful work all.  Here are some examples of wire trees I made many years ago.  I couldnt have done it without the help and advice of those who participated in the Wire Tree Build.  I find the process to be oddly relaxing and enjoyable with the result being some pretty realistic looking trees.  Please check out this thread in the hopes that it helps you as much as it helped me!

http://token3rail.blogspot.com...uild-wire-trees.html

Howdy Frank,  good topic at least of interest to me.Lately as I delve deeper into detailing my layout I have been thinking of replacing some of my original purchased trees that are rudimentary at best and bought specifically because they were on sale. Likewise ground covers have improved dramatically or my awareness of them has" grown"(no pun). So here are a few pics that maybe improved upon in the near future. 

Here is a modest tip for you fans of "old school" scenicking materials:
I had an old bag of peat moss sitting around, so I did some experimenting. Not only is it a nice, rich, woodsy material on its own, but it turns out that you can dye it various colors by shaking it up in a container of alcohol mixed with hobby acrylic paints. It comes out sort of half-way between ground foam and lichen. You can get some very nice and unusual effects.

Here is a little area where the primary ground cover is green-dyed peat moss:

Very interested thread and a beautiful trees & scenes. One of mine old tree project. 

Avanti posted:

Here is a modest tip for you fans of "old school" scenicking materials:
I had an old bag of peat moss sitting around, so I did some experimenting. Not only is it a nice, rich, woodsy material on its own, but it turns out that you can dye it various colors by shaking it up in a container of alcohol mixed with hobby acrylic paints. It comes out sort of half-way between ground foam and lichen. You can get some very nice and unusual effects.

Here is a little area where the primary ground cover is green-dyed peat moss:

Avanti looks good. You sure that didn't come from a bag of medicinal herb?

jackiejr posted:

 

Avanti looks good. You sure that didn't come from a bag of medicinal herb?

I knew it reminded me of something. 

I think all of the foliage depicted in the above photos is excellent, and will be adding to the trees on my layout in the near future. When I do, I will post photos on this thread. Arnold

Great topic, Frank. So far the title could be changed to The Best of the Best. Just superb work everyone.