Greetings.

Over the last few days I have been experimenting with making pine trees using sea moss and scatter.

I have not used this material before, but it seemed to be good for this small scale.

I made up some grey slurry from PVA, polyfilla and grey acrylic paint for the bark coating, and used an idea I've seen somewhere about pushing soft wire up through the trunk to give it strength and allow it to be straightened safely.

I needed to try to create some pines for theembankment and the hill behind the tunnel, as in this 1960's photo of Glenfield ( apologies for quality of scan):

Here are a few of the model pines just temporarily put in place - though by no means perfect, I think they are starting to lend this part of the layout some atmosphere. :

I am going to try a second batch of 3-4 pines plus some other varieties, though I'm not going overboard as I think it may be too much for the little hill on my version of Glenfield - I actually quite like it just with the four!

Regards,

Chris