+Quick lol, you never know... one day when you least think, you might need to make a tree..... thanks heaps and thanks for enjoying the videos :) Cheers Luke
THANK YOU SO MUCH I've been going hobby store to hobby store for hours trying to find realistic trees for my sets and they all, honestly, look awful to me. I adore detail and the little plastic trunks just didn't do it for me. This is extremely helpful and I can't wait to use this technique.
The tutorials just keep coming. You make it look so easy. I would never had thought of making the trunk, I would have just used the stick. Another fantastic job.Scott
+Scott Downey lol, thanks Scott, I've seen some other guys make similar trees. Most of them use furnace filter which I don't have access to. I'm glad I stumbled across 'Coconut Fiber'! Cheers Luke
Nice work Luke! I always admire your works. I followed this particular tutorial of yours for N-scale and I've made about 20 of them. Thank you for this tutorial!
Was this words of wisdom from Samuel Clemens or Dr.Suess? Hey, don't laugh read Dr.Suess's The Places You'll Go.Theo Geisel is pretty good reading.Go to the Theidore Geisel Library at the UC San Diego campus.
Luke, Great tutorial. Really impressed with the close up of the trunk...realistic. I'm curious. Why not just scrape the dowel and apply the fiber material directly to the dowel? I'm new to model railroading at a retired age of 63 and just starting my layout so if I'm missing something all you other guys know please excuse my ignorance.
+Larry D Mitchell Hi Larry, It's very possible to do what you are suggesting, I figure that I'm covering the top half with foliage so I try not to spend too much time on that area. If you were going to model a sparsely covered tree then I think modeling the trunk all the way through using the balsa dowel would be the best thing. Thanks for the feedback and it's a good question, a few people have asked the same thing :) Cheers Luke
로제놈템페릿 take a walk into the woods near you and look at the individual twigs sticks and limbs and look at all the details in each and you can replicate it by simplest means . It’s truly fact that nature provides , every sense of the word .
You can take dead dry grass and crumble it and make your grass by spray painting and turning it with and while spraying it or use sand and spray paint it . I take limbs that are broken from deer berry bushes and use cedar limbs to make a model towns historical tree . Just do it to it you’ll be amazed at yourself 👍🏻
Hi Gregoire, thank you again. No, I have not done any models for the film industry. Have self-taught all the skills I know, I like to create my dioramas with my full heart or else my conscience will eat at me. If you know what I mean. Besides I like to look back and admire them 😀
Fantastic job Luke - you are so talented and creative and the video quality is excellent. Thanks for some great tips - I'll be using them on my own HO Marklin railroad for sure. Glyn Jones
OUTSTANDING!!!! I finishing a 1/35 model tank ( modern German AVLB ) and THIS way of making trees is So SUPERIOR!!! I Knew....you train-guys/gals are Always into scenery and admire YOUR skill in producing a Much needed diorama idea!! I Will be using this into Good Usage!!!
I just finished a test piece using your trunk method, and rons branches with filters. Its ok, but coloring blue filters is annoying. I got some coconut liner coming in the mail! ( not leaving the apartment, I live in Minnesota...)
Hi Luke, great trees, I really going to make them, but for what scale did you make them? I will have to make O scale trees. you used a 10mm balsa trunk, that's about a 50-60ft tree.
Truly Amazing Art. this was the bestest art work i have ever seen. great job bro, i saw your apple tree video that also was so awesome. i became a fan of your after watching your these two videos.
I love the simplicity of the idea. I couldn't find the basket liner or coconut fibre so I used a dish washer scrub instead. It was quite difficult to pull them apart to create layers, so I soaked the scrub in water and when it softened, got to work!
Nice looking trees. Could have used you back in my "Granville Island Model Train Museum" days. We needed 6,000 model trees for the featured "O" scale Train Diorama. It was a massive undertaking to say the least. Cheers.
In alI my years of stalking hobby stores, hardware stores and flower shops for model terrain material, I have never seen this coconut fibre material. Do you have to order this stuff online?
I've been using your tips for about 2 weeks on a combo HO train/AFX slot car layout...with zombies. Now the parts I've done with your tips are making me realize I have to completely redo the other parts which now look rubbish!! Thanks so much Luke!
Pretty slick what you did with the dog in the end. Pretty much guarantees a rewatch. This is a very entertaining video. Thanks for allowing a peek into your world. It was fun.
+Rob McCrain Thanks a lot Rob for the great compliment. I'm trying to model the Great Northern Railway so hopefully these will fit in with the scenery :) Cheers Luke
The easiest way to make a model tree is to use real twigs. It's al about skill to choose and snip the right ones according to the shapes and scale needed. Later you can add artificial stuff... Real twigs last for decades. You can varnish them (the bark gets shiny and looks artificial) or just replace them with new ones as years go by... Any city garden provides you with most things you need, for free. Look around and follow the patterns of nature.
This is terrific! One noobie question: What is the material you're plugging the trees down into? It looks like foam of some kind. I couldn't find reference to it in the links. Thanks again!
Where on earth do you come up with these great ideas for the modelers? You got me started back into making dioramas for my scale models where I shyly moved away years ago. Keep up the great work!!
What would you say would be the most colors used of turf, grass ect, for most of your projects? Like if you were going to choose four or five of the most versatile things that could be used with many projects. I can see the price skyrocketing very quickly if a person was to go on one or two of these different websites of the products that you use, and ordered everything just to have everything on hand. Lol
Have you tried to create ball cypress trees? I would sure like to see how you would create them. We have some old ones on the museum layout and need to be replaced. I hope you try to create some so I can learn. Also, can MP Scenery Products be purchased from the USA? I have not found leaves like those to purchase in the US. Thanks.
The best way to make good pine trees is to buy them ready made from BUSCH and doctor them up with scissors and scenic ground foam. Busch prices are quite reasonable. This process will produce pine trees that truly look like the real thing in every way. What is produced in this video is a decent approximation to nature. But you can do better with less work and minimal cost.
Maybe it's cause I'm Alaskan and not Australian but I grew up in, under, and around pine trees and these, while being great model trees are nothing like the run of the mill pine trees back in Alaska. I should set some time aside to see if I can make one better instead of just being a naysayer or complaining. I just wish someone somewhere and somehow could actually pick the wilderness that I grew up in deep in the Alaska interior. I would love to be able to use your other methods for creating a scene that only people from there can appreciate an understand. But that leaves us to the problem. Me following a guy for tutorials on how to create the things that I need yet needing to, myself, put more energy in to finding a solution of the problem. Keep making sir. I enjoy every moment of it. I'm just saying that's not a pine tree. ;)
Luke, can you make these tall pines using the other technique of tall forest pine trees you do? Just limiting the distance down the trunk you add limbs?
Шикарнейшая работа. Вы супер! Спасибо за Ваше видео. Жаль, что я не понимаю Вашего языка, я из России, но с огромным удовольствием смотрю Ваши уникальные работы. Скажите, пожалуйста, а чем Вы посыпали деревья? Заранее спасибо.
Love the tree will try to make one . The only problem I have if u want to check what material I need and I will go to the website that is show above its hard to find anything there . Can't see what u use to make the trees . So I will have to try to make the way I can . Hopefully it will be half way nice as yours. Shame that there is no list what u use in description.
The production quality of your videos is excellent. Each step is well explained and the results are stunning. I am glad I cam across your channel, lots of inspiration to be found!
Thank you for a great tutorial. I just made my first four conifers using your methods, and I can't begin to tell you how happy I am with the results. Thank you again.
Everything you make looks so perfectly realistic. I don't know how you do it :)
lots of practice :) thanks :)
Cheers
Luke
He just showed you how he does it!!!
What more can he do to show you???
Plenty of practice with tons of material you didn't pay for since you are sponsored ;0)
rocket hot glue $ 8, balsa sticks $ 3, Spray glue $ 7, Woodlands Turf x 2 $ 14..... He's like in the top 100 richest men alive!
puessk
I will never make a model tree. But dangit if these videos arent fun to watch
+Quick lol, you never know... one day when you least think, you might need to make a tree..... thanks heaps and thanks for enjoying the videos :)
Cheers
Luke
Quick, I fill the same.
I agree, never gonna do anything Luke teaches, but they are very relaxing to watch
This is almost like watching Bob Ross. Except you make beautiful trees and worlds instead of painting beautiful
pictures of them.
Quick só que não neee
I see not one single dog...just a ton of raw talent...great vid man...
+nick grandy ha ha, thanks Nick, what a great compliment :)
Cheers
Luke
Anyone else have a kid who didn't tell you about his diorama until right before its due frantically trying to find out to make trees?
My son is 2 years old at the moment. I'm starting this now before he grows up and corners me 😂
The wire brush technique to create the bark is amazing Luke.
yeah, I too was amazed at how it turned out in the final product! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Cheers
Luke
You're like the Bob Ross of 3D scale models.
spartan456 true 😂
Yet.
It feels very "old-school PBS" doesn't out?
Yes!
Yes the results are as poor as the ones of Bob🤮
THANK YOU SO MUCH
I've been going hobby store to hobby store for hours trying to find realistic trees for my sets and they all, honestly, look awful to me. I adore detail and the little plastic trunks just didn't do it for me. This is extremely helpful and I can't wait to use this technique.
In the beginning i was like "What the fuck, this is stupid" then i watched a bit more and went to "What the fuck that is genius!" Very good video!
Your channel is just the nicest thing i've found from youtube this year!
Just wondering, what do you think the sizes would be for a 1/35 scale tank vignette?
The tutorials just keep coming. You make it look so easy. I would never had thought of making the trunk, I would have just used the stick. Another fantastic job.Scott
+Scott Downey lol, thanks Scott, I've seen some other guys make similar trees. Most of them use furnace filter which I don't have access to. I'm glad I stumbled across 'Coconut Fiber'!
Cheers
Luke
Nice work Luke! I always admire your works. I followed this particular tutorial of yours for N-scale and I've made about 20 of them. Thank you for this tutorial!
Love to see a video about you personally - like how did you get into modelling? and what the best one you've done?
"The path to a great society is when old men plant trees whose shade they know they'll never sit under."
Was this words of wisdom from Samuel Clemens or Dr.Suess? Hey, don't laugh read Dr.Suess's The Places You'll Go.Theo Geisel is pretty good reading.Go to the Theidore Geisel Library at the UC San Diego campus.
Older than that, it's an ancient greek one.
Luke, Great tutorial. Really impressed with the close up of the trunk...realistic. I'm curious. Why not just scrape the dowel and apply the fiber material directly to the dowel? I'm new to model railroading at a retired age of 63 and just starting my layout so if I'm missing something all you other guys know please excuse my ignorance.
+Larry D Mitchell Hi Larry, It's very possible to do what you are suggesting, I figure that I'm covering the top half with foliage so I try not to spend too much time on that area. If you were going to model a sparsely covered tree then I think modeling the trunk all the way through using the balsa dowel would be the best thing.
Thanks for the feedback and it's a good question, a few people have asked the same thing :)
Cheers
Luke
Super job on the trees. Living in the U.S. “down south” and modeling the L&N railroad. This video will come in very handy. Thanks for your great work.
When you make happy little trees you remind me of Bob Ross.
I don't even make models, I just really enjoy these videos
+DrKlown That's a great compliment :) I'm glad you enjoy watching.
Cheers
Luke
It looks absolutely stunning, but what about durability? Will it works in wargaming or it's simply too fragile?
Łukasz Fiuk probably it'll
Be good... but, don't be surprised if the foliage starts to crumble a bit!
bhi
Bellissimi bravo.................
Geez… saw your video and was SO INFORMATIVE!! Many Thank You’s the tree trunks did it for ( me )… smiles
me encanta tu trabajo pero deberian traducirlo en español gracias
even though I am not a model maker, I absolutely love to see your tutorials!
I am new to the RR hobby and appreciate the time and help that you give in making these videos. These are very easy to follow and enjoyable as well.
anyone else just siting there thinking how the hell he does all that
It looks difficult and I can make it.
It's hard to get material.ㅠㅠ
로제놈템페릿 take a walk into the woods near you and look at the individual twigs sticks and limbs and look at all the details in each and you can replicate it by simplest means . It’s truly fact that nature provides , every sense of the word .
You can take dead dry grass and crumble it and make your grass by spray painting and turning it with and while spraying it or use sand and spray paint it . I take limbs that are broken from deer berry bushes and use cedar limbs to make a model towns historical tree . Just do it to it you’ll be amazed at yourself 👍🏻
This is awesome. Those trees look so real.
Fibra de coco ?
Your work is movie quality perfect! Have you done any models for the film industry? Clever indeed!
Hi Gregoire, thank you again. No, I have not done any models for the film industry. Have self-taught all the skills I know, I like to create my dioramas with my full heart or else my conscience will eat at me. If you know what I mean. Besides I like to look back and admire them 😀
Luke Towan Totally understandable...I get it!
Fantastic job Luke - you are so talented and creative and the video quality is excellent. Thanks for some great tips - I'll be using them on my own HO Marklin railroad for sure. Glyn Jones
Thanks Glyn, I'm glad you have found a few tips to use on your railroad :)
Cheers
Luke
You just saved me so much money! I don’t mind the time put into it.
u have a new subscriber ..
Excellent video mate. They look fantastic
+RC Tanks & Trucks 24/7 No worries mate :) glad you liked the video.
Cheers
Luke
Excelente canal me gusta mucho saludos desde México,
OUTSTANDING!!!!
I finishing a 1/35 model tank ( modern German AVLB ) and THIS way of making trees is So SUPERIOR!!! I Knew....you train-guys/gals are Always into scenery and admire YOUR skill in producing a Much needed diorama idea!!
I Will be using this into Good Usage!!!
I just finished a test piece using your trunk method, and rons branches with filters. Its ok, but coloring blue filters is annoying. I got some coconut liner coming in the mail! ( not leaving the apartment, I live in Minnesota...)
I enjoy watching your videos luke towan
Wow! U have really awesome and amazing ideas for small models!!!!!🤘🙌🏻
Thank you :) I have many more to come
Hi Luke, great trees, I really going to make them, but for what scale did you make them? I will have to make O scale trees. you used a 10mm balsa trunk, that's about a 50-60ft tree.
Hi Luke- Is the Rustoleum paint you use here the Satin Espresso brown general purpose paint? 249081
Great video
Yeah that's the one. It's a paint/primer and 2x coverage :)
Cheers
Luke
Truly Amazing Art. this was the bestest art work i have ever seen. great job bro, i saw your apple tree video that also was so awesome. i became a fan of your after watching your these two videos.
"Hey to everyone, Cody Don here..."
Again Luke nice ideas. many thanks.
beautiful , I can't find the coco fiber anywhere in the usa any help thanks , love you video tutorials
Ola luke towan muy lindo tus trabajos, increíble, vale la pena aserlo en casa 🏡 felicitaciones un saludo desde Rivera Uruguay ok
I never find the dog! I even dreamt about that damn dog last night
Shanon Saunders
😹😹😹
I found one! Look at 6:45
1:53 is the first one I can see
so relaxing to watch....
thanks :)
I love the simplicity of the idea. I couldn't find the basket liner or coconut fibre so I used a dish washer scrub instead. It was quite difficult to pull them apart to create layers, so I soaked the scrub in water and when it softened, got to work!
I bet these would work really well for my dollhouse when I come to doing landscaping!
Nice looking trees. Could have used you back in my "Granville Island Model Train Museum" days. We needed 6,000 model trees for the featured "O" scale Train Diorama. It was a massive undertaking to say the least. Cheers.
Fantastic I fell in love with this method with coconut fiber very good tutorial thanks for sharing it 👍👏👏👏
In alI my years of stalking hobby stores, hardware stores and flower shops for model terrain material, I have never seen this coconut fibre material. Do you have to order this stuff online?
Or at least a brand name, that makes it easier to search for it.
BugPope look into description.
arne poulsen it's the stuff that you put in hanging baskets. try your local garden shop. good luck!
Bunnings, our Australian hardware chain has them - in the garden section. Just look for the hanging basket liners.
if in the USA go-to Amazon $32 for a roll to make a forest with
I've been using your tips for about 2 weeks on a combo HO train/AFX slot car layout...with zombies. Now the parts I've done with your tips are making me realize I have to completely redo the other parts which now look rubbish!! Thanks so much Luke!
lol.... At least you can see that you age getting better at your scenery :) I'm glad I've been able to help you with scenery.
Cheers
Luke
Pretty slick what you did with the dog in the end. Pretty much guarantees a rewatch.
This is a very entertaining video. Thanks for allowing a peek into your world. It was fun.
lol, yeah I tried to add a little bit of entertainment to the video :) Glad you liked the video :)
Cheers
Luke
Cool, I'm definitly giving this a try :-)Thanks for this.
You welcome Patrick. Have fun with this 😀
👍👍🌲
Marvelous. If I was doing a California layout, I would be making 100's of these. Rob
+Rob McCrain
Northern California, at any rate
+Rob McCrain Thanks a lot Rob for the great compliment. I'm trying to model the Great Northern Railway so hopefully these will fit in with the scenery :)
Cheers
Luke
+WingDing Dmetrius True
espectacular
Dog? What dog? Why'd you wait till the end to tell.... DO I HAVE TO SEE THE WHOLE VIDEO AGAIN!!!!???
The easiest way to make a model tree is to use real twigs. It's al about skill to choose and snip the right ones according to the shapes and scale needed. Later you can add artificial stuff...
Real twigs last for decades. You can varnish them (the bark gets shiny and looks artificial) or just replace them with new ones as years go by... Any city garden provides you with most things you need, for free. Look around and follow the patterns of nature.
I am an artist myself and I would be one that looks for details in those trees and these trees had some of the best detailing I’ve ever seen
This is terrific! One noobie question: What is the material you're plugging the trees down into? It looks like foam of some kind. I couldn't find reference to it in the links. Thanks again!
Sorry, but that intro song exclusively belongs to Cody'sLab. Cool trees though.
Luke - I found coconut fiber locally, but haven't bought it yet... Is the fiber supposed to have a waxy/oily feel?
Where on earth do you come up with these great ideas for the modelers? You got me started back into making dioramas for my scale models where I shyly moved away years ago.
Keep up the great work!!
U are really amazing friend... U'r works are very realistic & wonderful...
What would you say would be the most colors used of turf, grass ect, for most of your projects? Like if you were going to choose four or five of the most versatile things that could be used with many projects. I can see the price skyrocketing very quickly if a person was to go on one or two of these different websites of the products that you use, and ordered everything just to have everything on hand. Lol
Have you tried to create ball cypress trees? I would sure like to see how you would create them. We have some old ones on the museum layout and need to be replaced. I hope you try to create some so I can learn. Also, can MP Scenery Products be purchased from the USA? I have not found leaves like those to purchase in the US. Thanks.
The best way to make good pine trees is to buy them ready made from BUSCH and doctor them up with scissors and scenic ground foam. Busch prices are quite reasonable. This process will produce pine trees that truly look like the real thing in every way. What is produced in this video is a decent approximation to nature. But you can do better with less work and minimal cost.
Bravo!
Maybe it's cause I'm Alaskan and not Australian but I grew up in, under, and around pine trees and these, while being great model trees are nothing like the run of the mill pine trees back in Alaska. I should set some time aside to see if I can make one better instead of just being a naysayer or complaining. I just wish someone somewhere and somehow could actually pick the wilderness that I grew up in deep in the Alaska interior. I would love to be able to use your other methods for creating a scene that only people from there can appreciate an understand. But that leaves us to the problem. Me following a guy for tutorials on how to create the things that I need yet needing to, myself, put more energy in to finding a solution of the problem. Keep making sir. I enjoy every moment of it. I'm just saying that's not a pine tree. ;)
I'm Brazilian and I do not understand anything you're saying, why I do not speak english. What is the fiber that was used to make the pine tree?
Laryssa Gomes Prob a bit too late of an reply but look for coconut fibre. They should be available in either gardening and craft stores.
Luke, can you make these tall pines using the other technique of tall forest pine trees you do? Just limiting the distance down the trunk you add limbs?
This would also work awesome as hay bales and hay pieces!
just casually stuck a tree armature in there lol
Stupendi ❣️ sembrano veri 😍 bravissimo maestro ❣️ 👍 grazie mille per l'aiuto ad imparare 😇
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Шикарнейшая работа. Вы супер! Спасибо за Ваше видео. Жаль, что я не понимаю Вашего языка, я из России, но с огромным удовольствием смотрю Ваши уникальные работы. Скажите, пожалуйста, а чем Вы посыпали деревья? Заранее спасибо.
Thank you for bringing this wonderful tutorial with us.I really enjoyed learning from you work.
Superb 👌👌🤚👌👌👌
cool I LIKE it very much
Dude I watched your video 10 times. There are only 2 god damn dogs. Where the hell are the other two?
I think those rubby things on the top of those however you call ot sponges also work. Yes i know, i don't know the word for it :-)
Hola !!
No sé el idioma, me podría apoyar al decirme cómo se llama el material con el que hace los pinos ?
Love the tree will try to make one . The only problem I have if u want to check what material I need and I will go to the website that is show above its hard to find anything there . Can't see what u use to make the trees . So I will have to try to make the way I can . Hopefully it will be half way nice as yours. Shame that there is no list what u use in description.
Why not just use the balsa for the whole tree instead of combining the balsa and skewer?
I tried this for myself (though i did a few things differently and they came out pretty good! imgur.com/gallery/Sc4i2IN
Wonder where coconut fiber mats can be had here in midwest flyover farm country.
Great video. Can you give me information about the camera and lenses you use?
I watched the vídeo for the tutorial and at the ending I remembered the collies and I watched again lol.
nice video ! great looking trees
ha ha, glad you liked the video :)
Cheers
Luke
very nice tutorial, great looking tree's.
Thanks Kim, glad you liked it :)
Cheers
Luke
I'm modeling Onslow County, NC.This EXACTLY what I was looking for!!!
lots of pine in Onslow Co.!
@@Bobolots I was stationed at Camp Lejuene outside Jackson , NC and fell in love with the area and coastal NC.
Brilliant yet simple tutorials with excellent quality results... Thanks man! Keep these coming!
love this videos! unfortunately Woodland Scenics is not sold in my country, but it looks wonderful on the dioramas!!!
Thanks Bruce, that's a shame about Woodland Scenics, hopefully you can find an alternative to use if you try to make some of the scenery.
Cheers
Luke
The production quality of your videos is excellent. Each step is well explained and the results are stunning. I am glad I cam across your channel, lots of inspiration to be found!
Thanks mate :) glad you like the channel
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Thank you for a great tutorial. I just made my first four conifers using your methods, and I can't begin to tell you how happy I am with the results. Thank you again.
Excellent, that's fantastic! Glad you liked the video and put the techniques to use :)
Cheers
Luke
Can you use watered pva or pva on the coconut fiber to flock the tree?
thank, you for sharing you're video and info.👍
Is It possible to make static grass with these coconut fiber?