I started toiling over trees recently (yeah its tedious) and I'm starting to wonder if I'm really making them to scale... take a look at the pics and give me your opinion... hopefully i can roll with it without having to tear them all up thanks!
They look pretty nice to me. How tall are they? Four inches is about 52-53' tall in N scale, if that helps.
tallest is actually a hair under 4"... i guess 50' is a realistic height for a real tree right? maybe its just because the forest is incomplete. it may be playing tricks on me lol
That scenery looks fantastic to me! There's a 75' white oak in my front yard that definitely does NOT fit the scale of my house. :tb-cool: In nature, anything goes. Don't change a thing man.
You are fine.The scenery looks real good cantg wait to see more.We have some pines here that are over 60 feet tall.
I don't see any problems. I think when it comes to trees and scale, you should be more concerned with trunk size than height, since trees always grow and a too-tall tree can always be shortened. But having a tree with a too-wide or too-thin trunk, depending on the intended species, can really affect the scale.
They look great! As far as tree height goes, I just had a tree cutter cut down a tree in my back yard that was so big I was worried it would fall on top of my two story house. The Tree guy said he had never seen those types of tree grow so big and that they are usually half that size. If the conditions are right they will grow. I think they look perfect and you should leave them as is.
most people model their trees too small. yours look to be fine. trees are often 3-5 times the height of a train :
Your trees look great. But remember , tree's growing in nature grow tall because they have to compete for sunlight with the other trees in the forest. However, trees at the edge of the forest don't grow as tall because they don't have to compete for the available sunlight as the others so they will be shorter and fuller and will hide some of the trunks of your beautful trees.
I went with 6 inch treetops for my East Texas piney woods, whick scales to 80 feet. I read that mature trees in area I model are typically 100 to 120 feet... and much taller on West Coast mountainsides. Only proviso I would suggest...and it looks like it doesn't apply to you because your terrain seems natural and logical. Some modelers crowd tracks together at different levels with so little space, there is only a retaining wall between lower and higher parallel tracks. Then tall presumably mature trees are crowded along the bottom of the retaining wall. They look like they were stuck there as a modeling afterthought, rather than actually growing there. That is one of the few mistakes some people make. But from your modeling, I can see that you wouldn't do that. Happy model railroading and happy mini-forestry.
Thanks for the reassurance... I've plunked down more trees and have made some big steps in detailing so I figured I'd share thanks again
The layout looks great. The trees are very nice. I think it's more important that they look right than anything else. And, they do look right. The scenes are believable. Nice work.
Nature has no scale! Yes, most modellers are hide-bound by over taxing the scale thing. Vary everything. Make hills from low bumps (rises) to mountains, and mix them with one another. Model from low grasses to high redwoods- it's the inter-relationship between the items in your views that matters more than the 'scale' of an item. So add some breakup scene bushes in front of your trees (forest); create a 'visible' clearing and a focus point, add those older trees behind better looking ones, so that you're adding 'depth'- make those backgrounds darker and less see-thru just like looking into a real forested area... dave
Trees grow to different sizes. Trees also aren't uniform in color from one to the next. It looks good so far, keep going!
I agree 100% with the others, I think they look fine just as they are. I hope mine will look as nice as yours. :tb-biggrin:
