First Successful attempt at a deciduous tree

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Step one with these is the simplest. Spend the day at a park that has trees with your wife and miniature Dachshund (if you dont have one of these, substitute your breed of choice) find as many "bare trees" along the ground as you can.
Once you have those, using regular school glue (white liquid kind), apply this to the branches and let sit to get tacky. Then, take poly fiber and kneed it out and ball it onto the branches. once this is complete spray the poly with green or black spray paint(i use both) to cover the white. Then spray the poly with spray adhesive and let sit to get tacky. Then cover with coarse turf. spray with adhesive again, let sit to get tacky and then apply woodland scenics "bushes" in the color of your choice. Enjoy the new arborium! Pics of each step below. Final product will be in next post.
 
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Aaron,
I don't know what you did between the last photo in the prior posting and the one photo in your last photo but it really made it look great. I didn't see it coming together but that last photo looks great.

Dave
 


railBuilderDhd said:
Aaron,
I don't know what you did between the last photo in the prior posting and the one photo in your last photo but it really made it look great. I didn't see it coming together but that last photo looks great.

Dave
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Thanks, The difference would be that the last pic in the prior posting is just the poly fiber covered with coarse turf. The final product is the course turf then covered in woodland scenics bushes, or clump foliage.
 
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Looking good. I would try to get some more negative space in the tree top. Take a look at some photos and you'll notice there is a lot of "light" or open spaces in the top of the tree where you see light through. I think a little more open and these trees will be spot on!

Dave
 
railBuilderDhd said:
Looking good. I would try to get some more negative space in the tree top. Take a look at some photos and you'll notice there is a lot of "light" or open spaces in the top of the tree where you see light through. I think a little more open and these trees will be spot on!

Dave
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Thanks again. Thats the one thing that Im still trying to figure out how to achieve. The poly has to be covered up as to not take away from the look, I may do a couple and try to somehow use less poly, but still give it enough "structural rigidity" to hold up. We'll see how it goes.
 
Not bad Aaron, not bad at all.
Nice job.
I agree with Dave, when looking at a real tree one can see through the foliage.

Jacques
 
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