How To Model Trees From Sagebrush
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2018
- In this video I show you how to model trees from sagebrush. Sage makes fantastic deciduous tree armatures. Here I show you how I turn it into beautiful, realistic trees.
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Want to learn more about producing great-looking trees? Check out this playlist. ruclips.net/video/9wdSKMOV8dY/видео.html
I model on the cheap. I make all my own ground scatter (flocking) out of either sawdust that gets coloured in the electric coffee grinder my wife gave me for modeling, or foam rubber done same way in the coffee grinder. That way you can control the colours and the granularity of your finished product. I also make my own iron oxide (rust) by soaking about 4 pieces of 0000 steel wool in a quart jar with white vinegar. After about a month sitting in the window, I pour the mixture into a large pan (I use my old 11" x 14" stainless steel photo fixer trays when I had a darkroom) or baking dish and wait for the mixture to completely dry (usually about 2 to 3 weeks). Then I take a single edge razor blade and pulverize the contents into a fine powder and store it in little tins. Each batch I've done comes out a little different in colour. Then you use the rust as you would any weathering powder or chalk. It looks real, 'cause it IS real rust! I also colour my own chalk with acrylic paint and food colouring. I never buy weathering powders. Instead, I go to the dollar store and buy women's makeup in the little plastic containers. For $1.00 you can get quite a collection of different colours and they adhere better than weathering powders.
For trees, I use the Nandena bush after the little red berries fall off, it leaves a perfect tree trunk (armature). I also have a TON of lichen growing out back on the hill behind my house. When using the Nandena bush tree armatures, you can paint them whatever colour you want--even grey for aspen trees. Cover the armatures with lichen, seafoam or whatever you want, then add your own home-made flocking and you're done. For pine trees, I use florist wire (wrapped) doubled and bits of jute cut in1 to 1 1/2" laid in the wire, then using a drill, twist the wire while holding the other end in a pair of pliers.. I also use barbeque bamboo skewers with pig hair (horse hair) furnace filters (they're already green); have to paint the skewers first. And I never use spray paint since I use my airbrush for all my painting. I can use either acrylic or oil base paints; I usually use one airbrush for acrylic and the other one for oil base paints. Cheers from W Rusty Lane K9POW in eastern Tennessee
Hi Ron!! 😀 Very long time no speak. You may not even remember...
It's Carmine, from the old G+ Groups. Pacific Belt RR.
I won't give the whole dirty story, but the situation I left with, 6 years ago, still hasn't changed. Still barely hanging on, waiting for my Inheritance to save our Family...
Some good Friends have helped me maintain my literal Sanity with help in the RC Trucks Hobby, but I haven't been able to even touch my Layout in over 6 years! 😭
I'm working on changing that! Still don't have two pennies to rub together, but I've got barely enough to try to do SOMETHING. I miss my Railroad!!
These Trees are an inspiration! Here in Arizona, we've got tons of Sagebrush and Asparagus Fern....
I can make TREES!!! 😁
Seafoam isn't possible, that little cash.
But since I'm trying to get back into Model Railroading, I hope to reconnect with old friends...
At least the ones I haven't alienated by asking for help.
Carmine ✈🚂🚙
Fall is a great time to find materials since their foliage has dropped which reveals there branch structures and drying out plants that are cut while green by hanging them indoors works too.. Using a bit of fine mesh/gauze stiffened with lacquer/glue In odd shapes makes a nice platform for leaves. Indeed using a wet mesh laid over the top to a tree shape then allowed to dry is the best way to make a canopy before applying foam. Once dry the drapeped material can be cut away to create voids/levels on the stems and the painting the tree from above/below before foaming finishes the effect. You likely seen this done in videos/craft projects where they make ghosts by using lacquer/glue soaked gauze over a ball on a cup then once dry it holds it shape.
I agree, light and airy is the way to go. Very realistic results.
Thank you for your comment and thanks for watching.
Wow! Those trees look AWESOME! They look like, well, little trees! I shall copy your technique (if I ever get that far again lol) Nice job Ron!
The best option for trees!
Great tips! Got some ideas flowing after watching this.
Thanks, Ron
Thanks. Really looks good.
Welcome back Ron, I have missed your videos. As always another great tutorial, I plan on using your methods to make the trees on my layout when I get to that stage. The areas that I am modeling have a nice mix of conifers and deciduous trees.
Barry.
Fantastic video, some tips I really needed to improve my trees. I had not thought of using the mod podge or tacky glue, so this will help a lot. Thanks.
Great video the trees look fantastic.
Thanks.
Beautiful, Ron. Tree-rific!
I agree, those look better than most I've seen. If I can get some sage, I'll try that technique. Thanks Ron!
They will make great treats for a New England Autumn scene. Thank you!
Great Job Ron ,trees look superb ,look so realistic thanks
Thank you.
Very very nice Ron. Love how these look. Taking furious notes, I expect that I may try to procure some sagebrush as the area that my layout depicts tends to be more deciduous than coniferous.
Ron, you truly are a master at your craft. Thank you for the tips and tricks for modelling trees.
Thank you so much.
Good looking trees Ron....thanks for sharing....Jack
Thanks Jack.
really informative video thanks for sharing
Very nice trees! You are right, "light and airy" looks much better than blobs of ground foam for foreground trees. The mass-produced trees are great to fill in between the backdrop and the "hero" trees.
I totally agree Gary.
They look great Ron! Nice trees and nice tutorial!
-Ben
Thanks.
Very nice video tutorial 🚂
Ron, your trees are spectacular! I have been making trees for my O scale layout since watching your recent evergreen tree video. I had been wanting to get started for quite some time and you inspired me to put the materials that I had "accumulated", according to my lovely better half, to good use.
The first attempts have come out reasonably well balanced and they look more like trees and less like bottle brushes... 😁
Finally, a step toward beginning the layout... Thanks.
RUclips channel to follow. Stay tuned. 😊
Sounds like a step in the right direction. Thanks for your comment. Keep up the good work.
Hero trees, I like that!
I have to hand it to you, to be able to sit there for an hour and put those tiny branches on!
Great job, thanks for the tutorial!
Thanks, Joe.
I make trees from dried golden rod, harvested in Nov and Dec. Trim it up, spray it with spray paint for a base color, then dust with ground foam. Not as detailed, but you can do about 15-20 trees an hour.
Outstanding video Ron! I've always wondered about weathering trees because they are not uniform in color! Great result and fantastic work, keep it up!
Andy
Thanks, Andy. Good to hear from you as always. Enjoyed your interview on AML this week. You mean you DIDN'T name your railroad after me? LOL.
Nicely done buddy! ! ! !
Thanks.
Those look AMAZING! I'm probably years away from ever doing a layout, but I am working on putting together some dioramas for Hot Wheels cars. Might have to try this!
They are fun to make and they do look incredibly good if I say so myself.
Nice tutorial Ron...those trees are very realistic, I need to make a few hundred of them...Anybody out west want to send me a box of sage brush lol...Thank you for showing me how to make real nice looking trees...God Bless Tom
Thanks Tom
I love what you did!!! If someone would be nice enough to send me a box of sage branches I would have such gratitude!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏I would pay the postage fees for sure. I am a Christmas village addict . Thank you everyone and to you for doing that absolutely great video!!! They look so realistic!!! 😊🌺
Absolute great Ron. -Jack
Thanks.
Nice!
OMG those r nice
Those look real easy to make! I might have to give it a try sometime? Roy H.
They are easy, very nice, and you could pick up a box of sagebrush anytime you are driving out west.
Good ole` ModPodge ,what would we do without it.I load up on MP when I get the 50% off coupons from Michaels ,great for setting ballast ,making trees and a whole lot more.I wish I could get some of that sage brush up here in Canada ,but I do use that Sea Foam stuff ,makes great trees and shrubs.Great video Ron ,very very nice looking trees ,it`s those details that make the difference.Always a pleasure to watch and very relaxing !!
Thanks, Paul. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I will send sage brush to whoever wants some. I live in central Oregon and there is plenty. Beautiful trees an way faster than what I used for architectural modeling.
Thanks for that, man.
Nice one Ron! I am working on something similar right now for my background trees on my layout. One question though, isn’t the natural bark texture of the sagebrush too coarse for N scale? For HO it works fabulous I know, but not sure about N.
Great question. As the branches gets smaller the bark texture gets a little finer as well. If you pick the branches that are small enough to make good N scale trees the bark texture looks pretty good. If there are areas where it seems to be to course you can camouflage that a little bit with some dry brushing at that stage. I found the texture of these to look pretty good even in N scale.
Thanks! That is great to know. We do not have the exact type of Sagebrush here in India that you see in the Americas, but we do have similar plants - I guess I just need to find one that fits the bill. Till then I am planning to use the Scenic Express super trees (it was quite a battle for my friend to get them to me from the US) and the WS plastic trunks. Should be able to get my video uploaded in a couple of weeks' time - we can compare notes once I do that. :)
Very nice trees. Good technique. But they don't work on my n scale. I have tried. The field scrub turns brittle when dry. Settled for wire trees with sawdust for leaves. I have some videos I have been meaning to post on how to make them, but need editing, and work is keeping me busy.
The mat medium coat helps with the brittleness some, but they are delicate. They're not the trees I would be putting in an area where they're going to get bumped and handled a lot. The Fantastic looks, however, do make them quite desirable in my opinion.
what do you use to glue/hold the tree down to the scene?
I use a mounting pin in the bottom of the tree, then glue in the mounting hole and on the base with white glue, using clothes pins to hold it into position until it dries.
can't see the forest from the tress
1 hour a tree, You need about 1300 for your layout.....You have a full time Job.
1 hour per tree for the ones in the foreground. Watch for a future video about making background trees MUCH more quickly.
H.O Scale 🌳 s
"Find a friend" welp I now can't do this technique.