Woodland Scenics trees...

skinnylinny · Post by **skinnylinny** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:15 am

Has anyone here had any experience of these? I've been given a set of tree armatures and some foliage to go on them as a birthday present, and I've started trying to assemble some trees to go on Linnyville...

The instructions seem simple ("glue the foliage to the branches"), but I can't seem to end up with anything other than what looks like a... well, it defies description, but it looks almost nothing like a tree...

Anyone here got any hints and/or tips, or even a basic step by step guide (and I mean really basic) on how to deal with these little plastic devils?
Yours in frustration,
James

Post by **leviathan1949** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:53 pm

Don't you just love those sort of instructions. "Glue foliage to branches" Ho Hum.
Don't know how big your trees are but, get some Evostik Wood Glue and take a measure of it a cereal bowl and mix it 50 / 50 (Equal parts) with water. Give a good stir so that it is well mixed. Now pour the foliage into a second cereal bowl.
Now take the tree by the base in your preferred hand and roll it in the glue so that the ends of the branches ALL get a dollop of glue on them then roll it again in the foliage, eh voila, tree with foliage.
You may find it useful to have a piece of polystyrene to stick the trees into while they dry.
When the glue has dried, 24 hours, take the tree by the base and shake gently to remove the excess foliage (put the excess back in the bowl).
Now do the next batch.

dkightley · Post by **dkightley** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:53 pm

....and in the meantime, have toast for breakfast!

skinnylinny · Post by **skinnylinny** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:55 pm

Thanks for the reply.

Oh, I forgot to mention... The foliage that I got given is the sort of spongy sheet with scatter attached. Gets absolutely everywhere! I mean it, I woke up and found bits of scatter in my bed!

I think I have a bag of "scale leaves" knocking about though. Is that what you meant? If so, I'll have to try that method out, though, I didn't think of it.

LNERandBR · Post by **LNERandBR** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:20 pm

I think there are two types of foleage one which is like scatter but bigger and more spongy and the other is the mat which you have.

With the mat you need to take a small part of it and then tease it out till it looks really light and airy. Then apply glue to the branches (you can use the mathod above) then drape the bits of mat onto the branches. It need's to be teased out to make it look more like leaves on a tree as they don't clump together as you can see daylight though them.

Post by **leviathan1949** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:04 pm

If I remember correctly the larger spongy stuff is called SEAFOAM scatter.