what do you mean?
Hi Brad,
Isn't it possible to post the fibers in a( or 2) strong envelope(s)? the shipping will be less than 6 dollars per envelope!
The idea about this is to get/make the "package" with fibers vacuum( air out of it)....so they will be very flat!
For the base of the trunk I use mostly a wire that is stronger( 0,6 mm) than the ones I use for the branches/twigs!( 0,4 mm)
Besides this I use on the (base of the) trunk mostly 2 ore more layers of sawdust!
For strong branches also twice with sawdust and for the small branches tall twigs only one layer of very fine sawdust.
Let each layer of sawdust dry when starting a new layer. Also add some dishdetergent to the deluted whiteglue.
For the first layer I use white glue that is just slighly deluted ...for the next layers I use strong deluted whiteglue( about 1/2 whiteglue- 1/2 water+ drops detergent)
To immitate the bark I use fine turf"soil"from woodland as the final layer and only on the lower parts of the tree= trunkbase- trunk and lower strong branches....
let it dry for one night( in summer in the sun= 1 hour...;-))
finaly the frame will be dipped in a can with latexwallpaint in a treetrunklike color= mostly greygreenbrown....( just watch nature!)
If you need more info just ask/write !
Jos
ps: picture isn't bad at all
Made some (european kind of) H0 pine trees and some larches( spring.)
Jos
Thanks zoegraf! =)
The only , look-a-like- trees I ever built were some small ones: watch the posts # 220 and # 254
Very deep , somewhere in my head there are some ideas about how to and when(??) making these big huge very impressive trees!(it all deals about having the space , at least, to store these monstertrees!
Jos
Some "new"ones...
Platanus acerifolia( London plane-trees????)
Scale: H0
Jos