Making Decidious Trees

I am not sure where you live, but I have used Goldenrod weed that grows here in western PA for years.  its yellow in mid fall, dies out in November and dries out.  I pick this stuff, form trees with them, primer with auto spray, and color them up with oranges reds and yellow for fall folliage.  green also.  first I primer, then green them and white them up and then apply color because the weed stuff soaks the paint up.  of course it sucks here in PA because its 35 degrees and paint does not dry well. 

I watched this video and the yellow cast spray on top would be a nice touch if you have some warm LED lights from above to similate the sun.  this could be really cool when filming it.    thanks for the link to this.  very informative and helpful. 

Great video with some useful information.  Typically, I make my trees starting with a wire armature.  I allows me to make some really good size trees but, it is very time consuming.  Here is a 11 and 1/2 inch tree armature ready for polly fiber and course ground foam that I use to represent the leaves.  I thought the way he used spray paints to color the trees and high light the leaves was pretty cool.  I'm going to try that with the next batch of trees I do.  Thanks for sharing the video!   Bo  

Updated 11-9-12  It's now ready for the layout!

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I saw this on the wall in an art gallery:

Didn't even ask how much it cost.

Pete,

Wow, now that is a wire armature!  Costly no doubt.

Probably wouldn't want to flock it with ground foam!  Bo 

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Thanks Stewart,

That is a super video.

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Dennis

great video. Been using Super tree  for years and it is that east to work with. I primarily use the leaf flocking which also give you a nice tree and I find you van eliminate the final coat of paint