Really appreciate your 'How To' videos, especially the one on clouds, and this method for stippling the background trees. Your methods, AND RESULTS, are the best I have seen. Love the outcome, and I am planning to start some of my own using your methods this week, even though I am still at the beginning stages of a sizable N Scale railroad project which sat for many years, Am at the stage of about a 60 to 75 foot long mainline now, but want to start some additional scenery work, as I progress. Thanks again.
way to easy, thanks for sharing your how too, might just try this for the clouds and a great way to add depth to the tree line, without adding a tone of trees, so easier on the wallet for sure
OUTSTANDING! Simple yet highly effective. I will be practicing your techniques on my N scale backdrop. But I have to ask... Did you, or a group of modelers you belong to, create a portable HO scale layout and display it at the O'Hare toy and model Exposition in the early 2000s? I believe it was the Donald E. Stevenson convention center?
Phillip Grey Would you even see the trunks of the trees at a perspective distance? That could be a 1000' away? Dead trees you can see the trunks and really leafy trees. But bushy trees at any distance all you will see is maybe the trunks, but if you have foreground trees I don't think you would be able to see the trunks? A baby could paint clouds and trees using your technique. I might have to give that a try? Thanks Have fun, Roy
Phillip Grey is correct. Lay the dark green stipple, strike with a pallet knife or brush handle to set a line, then stipple the highlight colors. In stippling toward the tree top you can produce floating tree effect without a hint of trunk or main branches. Most of the base is covered by practical trees (ground foam and 3d trees) but at certain eye angles you will pick up floating leaf clumps.
2023 Still a neat video. Learned a lot. Moving on to Background trees part 2.
Thank you
Really appreciate your 'How To' videos, especially the one on clouds, and this method for stippling the background trees. Your methods, AND RESULTS, are the best I have seen. Love the outcome, and I am planning to start some of my own using your methods this week, even though I am still at the beginning stages of a sizable N Scale railroad project which sat for many years, Am at the stage of about a 60 to 75 foot long mainline now, but want to start some additional scenery work, as I progress. Thanks again.
Thank you. Glad you enjoy them
Amazing!
Great tutorial!
Nice work!
way to easy, thanks for sharing your how too, might just try this for the clouds and a great way to add depth to the tree line, without adding a tone of trees, so easier on the wallet for sure
OUTSTANDING! Simple yet highly effective. I will be practicing your techniques on my N scale backdrop. But I have to ask... Did you, or a group of modelers you belong to, create a portable HO scale layout and display it at the O'Hare toy and model Exposition in the early 2000s? I believe it was the Donald E. Stevenson convention center?
One suggestion: take the back handle of a small brush and make a straight line in the middle of the trees to simulate a tree trunks.
Thanks, I may give that a try in some areas.
Phillip Grey Would you even see the trunks of the trees at a perspective distance? That could be a 1000' away? Dead trees you can see the trunks and really leafy trees. But bushy trees at any distance all you will see is maybe the trunks, but if you have foreground trees I don't think you would be able to see the trunks?
A baby could paint clouds and trees using your technique. I might have to give that a try? Thanks Have fun, Roy
Phillip Grey is correct. Lay the dark green stipple, strike with a pallet knife or brush handle to set a line, then stipple the highlight colors.
In stippling toward the tree top you can produce floating tree effect without a hint of trunk or main branches. Most of the base is covered by practical trees (ground foam and 3d trees) but at certain eye angles you will pick up floating leaf clumps.
Is there a link to how you painted clouds?