Al's Scale Pine Trees
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Al Badham has been obsessed with building scale pine trees for model railroads his whole life. Starting with kit trees, Al soon gave that up in favor of building trees from willow branches and wire. A forest later, Al is still building trees almost every day.
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Klasse ! Das Gebirge ! Die Bäume ! Danke !
Bitte schön. Al war ein toller Freund. Wir vermissen ihn wirklich. Er liebte Bäume
wieder ein super video mit tollen brücken und anderen schönen sachen !
+Werner Sievers Al hat eine Liebe für Bäume . Eine echte " Baum Hugger " , denke ich. Sondern auch eine große Modellbauer ! Und ein Liebhaber von gutem Wein und Bier.
Obsession with pine trees.....no different than obsession with trains.
Yup!!!
I get a kick from Americans when they say they're "in rout" to somewhere. It's a mangling of the French *en route,* which is pronounced (roughly) "aw(n) root" in the rest of the world. That's a long "oo", BTW, as in "boo." So American neighbors, if you visit Canada and hear "en route," it means "in rout." 8-D
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That aside, it goes without saying that these are some very nice trees. We have a local fellow who has been making similar trees for years and his demos always draw a crowd at shows. His trunks are split from cedar roof shakes and carved/sanded into shape, something cedar is really good for as it works easily and tapers well. Roots are made with old fashioned Durham's water putty, if I recall correctly!
For branches, he uses the reddish plastic rod you can get from Slaters of the UK, which is a little faster than twisted wire, although the latter will give you way more control and detail. The needle clumps are Woodland Scenics "foliage" material, which he keeps flat, as it is packaged, and glues to the branches. Any fibers sticking out after that are trimmed off with scissors.
For wire branches, you can use fine flower wire from a craft store or just strip a foot of stranded electrical wire and use the flexible copper inside. Twist half a dozen or so together, depending on tree size, and then work them out into branches. A simple (and non-peeling) way to color them is to use metal blackening solution. Some types give a brown color, but if you branches turn black, just dry-brush them a bit with flat hobby paint.
Al may be using WS's clump foliage, because he makes branches that could hold it. I'd suggest using a tacky white craft glue like Aleene's. Break the clumps into small enough pieces and use tweezers to stick them to glued branches.
That's my best guess, folks, 'cause they're not telling us for free!
+carmium HELLO!! I asked in London once where the "rest room" was in a theater. The usher laughed. Why? Are you tired? The toilet is there. Even the theme of the channel. The High Art of Screwing Around" (needless to say) changes with local. In Britain it would be "cocking about". Totally offensive in the US. -SIGH- I do love water putty as well. Use it for many things. Looking FORWARD to building a layout! We have started, sort of, that is to say on the backdrop now. Benchwork in a week or so, Soon, TREES!! Already have 2. One 3 feet tall as we are in 1:20.3 scale. My newest loco is 45 pounds, not the price, the weight! ANYWAY, thanks for the info!!
+Toy Man Television Good for you that you're actually making TALL trees! I have seen more than one layout where it looked like the trains were running through nothing but recently replanted areas. Especially out on the Wet Coast, trees can commonly grow 100, 200 feet (redwoods, 300!) - particularly if you're modelling an area that wasn't logged to death back in the waybacks! Even in N scale, that's 7.5 to 15 inches, and when was the last time anyone saw trees like that on an N layout?
One more tip: if your layout has a lighting valance (highly recommended), don't worry about modelling *all* the tree. Just take it to the valance top and chop it off blunt - let it look like it continues up out of sight! The effect is truly impressive.
I have Al's DVD on building these and you can email through guyshobbyshop.com, link on the channel page. HOWEVER. I am going to put it on the channel for download. When I figure out how.
Hi! Would you please make accessible Al's DVD. I've tried to view in Hungary through guyshobbyshop.com but it said it's not allowed in Hungary and nowdays its just not accessible. Sorry my english its not my native language.
Thank you!
How do you get this video? Can't find it.
The Foreground Tree with Al Badham
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To:Dale and, Karen how are, you guy's doing? I hoped that, guy's had a, great amazing Thanksgiving weekend and,Merry early Christmas to all of you're family I hope you guy's have a,great Christmas and, Happy holidays when you and,Karen go out driving a, around be safe out there from Jason, L from RimRock Az.
Hi. All is well here. Getting ready to make quite merry! Happy Christmas back at you!
That's wonderful trees, it is the method I searched for making realistic trees in 0 scale.
When will the DVD be available for download? (as I'm in France, the postage and custom fees will surely make the DVD very expansive)
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00:15 it's pronounced hawiwii (ha-wii-wii)
Jaden Stookey he got it right...you did not ;p
I have a challenge to him, making the trees as well in the z-scale :) I can't find anyone do realistic tree in z-scale
I think it would work. He started in N scale and many of the trees on Steves railroad, the ones way up on the mountains, are from the old N scale. About 6 inches.
Nice video.
Thanks. FUN trees. I am building one too!
wow, amazing! I wish to learn that..
Good video TM
Victor B. Did you ever learn how to make realistic pine trees?
very nice, will try your method
+Clinton Steve Great way to make trees. AND with a bit of messing around, you can make any type of tree this way.
Where r the video as of Al making these. Otherwise, Screw Al ....
+Grizzly Boxing BIG BEAR really, I don't think Al is out of line selling these. He spent a lot of money making them. They are on DVD at Guyshobbyshop.com, link to The Train Station who sells them for 14.95
Toy Man Television hahaha. Just Fukn with ya. I have his videos !!!
COOL. Love your name. Check out this weeks show. Grizz Bears.
Muy buena terapia
si lo era. Al amava fare alberi. Purtroppo dopo la sua morte nessuno di noi ha mai provato la sensazione di creare i suoi meravigliosi alberi. Steve ha iniziato a smantellare la ferrovia perché non è più in grado di lavorare per costruirlo. Steve sta diventando una nuova anca in 2 settimane e speriamo che allevia il suo dolore e migliori le sue sprits. Copriremo tutto questo nello show. Guardando questo video mi si spezza il cuore, come dici tu, buona terapia.
BS ad to sell a dvd
Hi. Well BS? Al put a lot of effort into this. He’s gone now. So I’ve posted his video on the channel. You can watch it. But trying to sell your product isn’t BS.