Homemade Trees

[Stefan]

Has anyone built his own conifers from natural products? I did it with moss and wood for dowels. It was a lot of work but the effect was it worth and one of the main advantages is, that you can produce your trees with an appropriate height :D My trees are between 6" and 12" high.
Stefan
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[MasonJar]

Nicely done! What kind of moss is that? Has that real convincing "west coast" look to it.

Andrew

[Stefan]

Thank you Andrew. I don`t know what kind of moss you have on Canada`s westcoast. I`ve found mine on a few places here in Switzerland. It`s rare :( but if I search a little bit in the forest, I`ll find it graemlins/clappy.gif
Stefan
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[Scott Stutzman]

Excellent foreground trees! How long did it take to make each tree? graemlins/notworthy.gif :eek:

[Stefan]

Thank you Scott, it takes about 4-5 hours for each tree graemlins/headscratch.gif A lot of time but I didn`t find any commercial products that satisfied me and are reasonably priced :confused:
Stefan
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[jimnrose]

Excellent work. Did you hand trim the dowels or purchase tapered dowels?

Thanks for sharing, Jim

[Stefan]

Jim, I taperded the dowels on a lathe and scratched lenghtwise with a fine saw blade for simulating the bark. After this, I brush painted the trunks with a light gray and weathered them with a wash of ink india and thinned roof brown.
Stefan
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