| Making trees with artificial flowers: |
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Three different artificial flowers, or whatever you name
them. Unfortunately I am not an expert in flowers and there names. I
just walk in the store and look for something that matches or looks like
what can become a model tree. I describe them here as flower 1,2 and
3.
(unless someone can email me the correct flower names) |
Flower
1 |
Flower
2 |
Flower
3 |
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First I cut the the stems to length and, if needed, in
shape with a side cutter. There is a metal wire inside the plastic stem
to give it strength and allows for bending into shape. |
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The result of flower number 3 after cutting up. I was
able to cut 6 trees out of one flower. |
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With a flat dark green color I removed the plastic shine
and original light color. |
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I then apply glue to the tree with a spray bottle of
regular glue... |
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...so I can sprinkle some turf onto the tree. |
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By using various shades of green you can make a variety
in the color of the future forest. On this photo I am still working with
flower number 3. |
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Trees made from flowers 1 and 3 are all together while
waiting for the glue to dry. |
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How many tree are needed for a forest? There are about
120 in this photo. |
A
forest made from flower 1. |
A
forest made from flower 3. |
Color
variation. |
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The result of a tree made from flower 1. Of course still
without a nice trunk, but this will be made later. |
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Ones again flower 1. |
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Flower 3. |
| Imitating flowers with dried flowers: |
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Dried flowers which are going to be used to make flowers
on the layout. These are the smallest flowers I have found so far. |
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How it looks in close-up. I am using the white flowers
at the ends of the stems, and later I try to make trees from the left
over stems. |
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The flowers on the layout, just to see how it looks.
Still in the original white color, but that can be changed with a
bit of paint. |
| Hair braids as scenery: |
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Shopping with my daughters in a beauty store brought me
to this idea. For just a Dollar you can by a pack of hair braids that
can be easily used as field grass or other scenery. |
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Just cut in small lengths and glue where wanted on the layout. They
sell this in many different colors, even in green.
A very small
package of this from Woodland scenics will cost over 3 Dollar, but with
these hair braids you have 100 times as much. |
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Place some between your thumb and finger and apply some
white glue... |
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... and place on the location.
After it has dried just
cut to length and if wanted, paint to the desired color. |
