TomE's N Gauge Modelling

Those look really good, especially the first one. I'm guessing that these are 2mm scale?

Thanks Pugsley!

 

Yes, they are 2mm scale, but the method can be applied to any scale really. At the moment I'm just practicing with the materials before I tackle the trees for Ropley. The left tree in the bottom photo was the first trial with the Teddy Bear stuffing poly fibres and I didn't really thin them out enough, hence the ball like appearence. The second tree is much better in that respect. I have some finer florists wire on the way which will hopefully improve the look further.

 

Cheers,

 

Tom.

Really good looking trees Tom. I didn't think I needed any for my layout but now I'm not so sure!

 

Dave

The new tree makes the last attempt look like a generic model tree. I hope that one day I will produce trees as good as your latest efforts. Nice work!

Thanks both.

 

I guess practice makes perfect

 

This is the line of tress I need to emulate for the layout. It looks like there are a few different types in there! Now I'm happy with the materials and method I need to start trying to achieve some of the shapes below:

 

 

Cheers,

 

Tom.

Wow, every time I see your efforts it makes me want to have a go. Thanks for the inspiration!

Thanks Stephen. Have a go! If I can do it anyone can!!

 

Tom.

The thinner foliage and twigs look very nice indeed, although I think the second one with the split trunk might look better if the big branches above the split were thinner?

 

A rule of thumb which might help is that that the sum of the cross-sectional areas of the branches after the split should be about the same as the CSA before the split. So if you split the trunk into two branches the same size, the diameter of each one should be about 70% that of the trunk.

 

If you start all your wires at the root this works out automatically (provided you don't put too much bark on the upper branches). I got caught out by this when I tried tree-making because I wired extra bundles into the split branches to make twigs, and the tree came out rather top-heavy

Thats Will, thats useful info!

 

Tom.