Sisal rope trees or Trees made from Manila Hemp Twine or Rope

I am just now reading this thread Ray.  Could you please provide a little more detail on how and what method involves super glue?

I have made about 260 sissle evergreen trees.  I have adjusted the wire length to make trees up to 12 inches (48 ft. o scale)  I have used 3/4 inch sissle rope because the separated fibers are stiffer that helps them keep their shape after binding them when twisting the wire.  I then spray paint them with rustoleum earth brown and when dry use very heavy hair spray and sprinkle with ground foam.  That's the method I use based on tutorials I found on the web.  I also spray the trees with the hair spray after applying the foam.  I suppose other adhesives could be used as well. (Rather messy so I always do it outside in a big cardboard box.)  You can see some of my trees on my "Not quite a complete redo" threads.

If you are making deciduous trees, I don't have any valuable advice to offer because my attempts to make believable trees have been unsuccessful.  Good luck.

Yes, I am attempting to make deciduous trees. As I mentioned in my post I saw these at a local swap meet. The method involves slowly dropping super glue on it to make it stiffen and partially unwinding the rope and slowly dropping more super glue on it to make the branches stiff. I have taken the this far but am not sure of how to proceed from here. I might have to find if I can contact the fellow who was selling them and see if he would share some info.

I will have to take a look at your threads, could you post a link to them?

Ray 

https://ogrforum.com/t...87#64640221102902187

I think this might show you my post with some photos of my evergreen trees.

I think I understand the deciduous tree process of unwinding the rope in sections and applying glue to certain areas to form the trunk and then branches bit by bit?  Then after the glue cures, trunk and limbs are solidly formed and can be painted?  Depending on the spread of the smaller branches formed by spreading the sissel fibers perhaps believable foliage can be achieved?  Curious.  What are your thoughts? 

You are on the right track, after the trees are shaped a plaster or drywall mix is applied to the trunk and main branches. I am a little concerned at the smaller branches, I don't want to have these stuck to my hands with the super glue. I have had some adventures with the super glue previously and am hesitant to have to much contact with it. I am thinking using an accelerator might speed up the process of forming the main part of the tree, the way I have done so far is to apply the glue and hold the trunk or branch in place till the glue sets up. I don't really like the idea of watching paint or glue dry, I don't have that much time or patience. Thank you for the link to your post.

Ray

Here's my attempt at an 80' tree.  Maybe a little taller.

I used real branches spliced together with roofing vent material and ground foam.

I embarked on making a large, old, spreading tree using rope and super glue following the technique described at this link:

http://www.freerails.com/view_...orum_id=4&page=1

As I recall, it took a lot of very expensive super glue! I did not have access to accelerator and it took a long time waiting for glue to dry.

Here is what I ended up with . . .

Rich, nice job especially on the foliage.  That's where I have the most trouble, the material for the foam base.

Terry, interesting process. I looked at the link info and it might be worth a try for me just for 3 or 4 trees.  Your tree is mazing.

Terry,

Wow that is exactly what I was looking for, I have a couple of trees started but did not know where to go from here. With the trees where they are now I would say that so far I have used maybe 1/8 of a 1 ounce bottle of the glue. I may end up using less then a 1/4 ounce, I don't think that is to bad when comparable trees sell for $20.00 and up.

Thank you for posting that link.

Ray

Here's my attempt at an 80' tree.  Maybe a little taller.

I used real branches spliced together with roofing vent material and ground foam.

Rich, 

That is quite a tree, I think it looks good and tall.

Ray

Here is the 80' Tree in place on the left.

This is a dead tree using Oak Tree flower remains that drop every spring.

"I am Groot"