Lovely work Dave.

 

Thanks for the photographic breakdown of constructing the trees as well. Really useful.

 

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

Beautiful work.

Lovely work Dave.

 

Thanks for the photographic breakdown of constructing the trees as well. Really useful.

 

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

Thanks Mark, glad you found it useful

 

Best wishes

 

Dave

 

 

 

Beautiful work.

Thanks Robin!

Lovely stuff Dave, duly noted for future reference.

Lovely stuff Dave, duly noted for future reference.

Thanks Mike, glad you found it useful:-)

 

Superb!

Thanks Jez!

 

Absolutely superb and thank you for including the construction details.  I'm going to need some trees for my planned broad-gauge diorama, so this information will be very useful. 

Thanks Mike, glad you found it useful and really looking forward to reading about your broad gauge exploits!

 

p.s.  the engine looks great, too, and you've avoided trees growing out of the chimney in the photos

Lol! Trees growing out of chimneys never look good do they:-)

 

Don't be afraid to make big trees. An elm could be up to 130' high. Trees do dominate the landscape. I had my layout at Warley. A visitor came up and said "your trees are too big". I replied, "no they are too small", they are about 75% of the height they should be. Turned out he made trees for a living - small trees - more sales! Lovely work as always.

Thanks Tim! With trees approaching 1 metre tall I'm going to need a lot of wire and shares in Greenscene products!:-)Best wishes to allDave

Dave,

 

Very nice trees!  Although not to scale they do look imposing (which is what a tree should be).  I never feel that trees modelled to scale look quite right (especially in the larger scales) because they literally dominate the small amount of space available, to look right they need to be set in an expanse of landscape (such as Pendon are able to do).  That said, it's nice to see 7mm scale trees that dwarf a locomotive.

 

I'm in the middle of making a few trees for Modbury using the method I described here http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/595/entry-12543-more-trees-for-st-ruth-part-3/ when making some for St. Ruth.  I start off with a 36 strand length of copper cable about 15" long and by making loops in the wire I end up with something like this that stands some 4-6" tall (after planting) :

 

The trunk and lower branches then get a coat of PVA pollyfiller mix before spraying and adding foliage.

 

Ian

Hi Ian, glad you like the trees!  I agree with you about the need for scale height trees to be set in a large expanse of landscape.  One of the limitations of my layout is the fact that the backscene is only 16 inches high.  Scale trees would obviously tower above this and look faintly ridiculous!   I suppose I could make a higher backscene, but then reaching the back of the layout from behind the baseboards would become very problematic even with my long arms!

 

I'm very much looking forward to seeing Modbury's trees, it's been a while since we've had an update on your progress!

 

Best wishes

 

Dave

Dave,

Progress on Modbury over the Winter has been a little sporadic - my other hobby of radio controlled car racing seems to take precedent over the Winter.  

 

However that's all over for another year, so I'm trying to get things like platforms in place and am currently making a waiting shelter for the down platform.  The shelter is a copy of the one that once stood at Bovey Tracey, and can be seen in the 1921 view of the station here http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/bovey/.  The shelter was an open fronted affair with a flat roofed gents tacked on the far end.  I have a couple of closer images that I have been able to estimate size from.

 

I have been invited to exhibit Modbury again at the 2mm Supermeet in June so I am trying to push the layout on a bit.

 

Ian

 

Yes other hobbies do have a knack of slowing down modelling productivity! I used to spend a lot of time flying radio controlled aircraft, great fun but very disheartening when you crash them!

 

That little shelter looks lovely, really looking forward to seeing your model of it. There's nothing like an impending show to concentrate the mind and get things done on a layout!:-)

Hi Dave, many thanks for this - a veritable tree masterclass. I like that last shot in particular, the "integration" of trees, foliage and grass works really well.

 

I was studying your plain blue backscene with interest. You say you are going to add landscape to it, which is the natural thing to do and will no doubt look great. But it's interesting to see how the plain blue works quite well even without a landscape, and focuses the attention on the stock and scenery. That's of interest to me as I'm currently thinking about the backscene for my new layout, so thanks for that inspiration too!

Hi Dave, many thanks for this - a veritable tree masterclass. I like that last shot in particular, the "integration" of trees, foliage and grass works really well. 

Hi Mikkel, glad you like all the vegetation:-) I must admit I'm thoroughly enjoying this part of the layouts construction, playing around with different fibres and textures is very satisfying. I'm finding if something doesn't look quite right first time, then another layer of fibres applied on top allows a second attempt and gives even more depth and texture to the undergrowth.

 

 I was studying your plain blue backscene with interest. You say you are going to add landscape to it, which is the natural thing to do and will no doubt look great. But it's interesting to see how the plain blue works quite well even without a landscape, and focuses the attention on the stock and scenery. That's of interest to me as I'm currently thinking about the backscene for my new layout, so thanks for that inspiration too!

I'm also undecided about the landscape hills, which is probably why I haven't attempted any yet! :-) It's hard to see in the pictures, but the sky colour graduates from very pale blue at the horizon to a much deeper blue at the top of the backscene. I used my airbrush to blend the colours together and it's given quite a nice misty morning effect. I've more or less decided to leave the backscene alone for a while and get on with other aspects of the layout and wait for inspiration to strike!:-)Looking forward to an update from Farthing!Best wishesDave

Great work Dave the trees really look good. Trees can be quite large not far from us is the tallest tree in England a mere 200ft approx. A tree that tall would be higher than most viaducts and if placed on a normal layout would need a raised ceiling!.  Actually trees standing in open fields tend not to be as tall as those grown in a forest where copetition for the light makes them grow taller. Also If those at the rear are a little shorter it seems to add to the sense of distance. The same with hills on a backscene I think.

Don

Great work Dave the trees really look good. Trees can be quite large not far from us is the tallest tree in England a mere 200ft approx. A tree that tall would be higher than most viaducts and if placed on a normal layout would need a raised ceiling!.  Actually trees standing in open fields tend not to be as tall as those grown in a forest where copetition for the light makes them grow taller. Also If those at the rear are a little shorter it seems to add to the sense of distance. The same with hills on a backscene I think.

Don

Thanks Don, glad you like them! Wow, a 200 foot tall tree equates to an O gauge tree around 4 foot 8 inches tall! That would be quite some project and although completely to scale, would I think look very odd on the layout!

 

Best wishes

 

Dave