[FONT="]I'm working in the south room and the scenery there requires lots of trees, including some dense forest areas. There's no way I'm gonna use individual trees for these areas, I'm going broke buying trees now - so it's puffball time. The main issue I have with the puffball technique is in order to look right, the puffballs need to be elevated off the ground surface in order to match height correctly with the individual trees around it. I used fiberglass screen wire elevated on wire "trunks" in one section, but it was pretty unstable, and also a PITA to strip all that wire. So I got to thinking - what if I cut up some cardboard and hot glued it in to corners and glued that to the screen... And then spray bombed it with some black - yeah, it's nice and flexible, will follow contours with no problems. Here it is on the hillside Then I drilled holes for the surrounding individual trees And eventually surrounded the screen (Continued next post)[/FONT]
Here is a link to the Jim's original thread. Thanks to Jim Reising for sharing this technique for trees. Additional Search terms: scenery tree woods field