1/72 Bare Trees

[John Simmons]

I've been struggling to create enough bare trees to cover my table for our upcoming Guilford Courthouse game (which I've described in the Work in Progress section of this forum). Here's a quick trick that I just discovered. If you have any access to Azalea bushes, have a look for the dead ends of their branches (the parts I was clipping off in my yard). You'll find that the tips make excellent bare trees for our scale, given the many, tiny branchings of the plant. I made a couple dozen of these quite quickly. Here's a photo of a few of them.



I've tried a lot of other "real plants" as sources for scale trees, but I think these are the best that I've stumbled upon.

[C M Dodson]

Hi,

Quite effective but the bare seafoam have to be the best in my opinion.

The problem is that they are fragile.

Still, I have stuck the debris to branches to get more trees !

Best wishes,

Chris

[Susofrick]

Looking great! I have used blueberry, but I am not satisfied with it. But it is cheap and just about everywhere here.

[Peter]

Thanks for charing this idea with us!