Tree Bark. Ever Use It ?

Yeah, I keep having the same thought. I've never been able to make it work anywhere. The scale is wrong for many of the obvious possibilities.  The closest I've ever come is as the basis for a a rock face.   But, there are better alternatives.   I'm over it.

I have used it in the past.  I use structolite for most of my scenery so when I do use tree bark I just give it a thin wash of diluted structolite for some extra texture.  Then I paint as needed to match.  I searched for a pix and I had only one and its not very good, sorry.  The effect is very good.  There are lots of good looking pieces of bark where the trees are allowed to rot a little after they are down.  Again I apologize for the pix.  Russ

Check out Rich batista toy trains on tracks web site he has used tree bark all over his mountains and it looks awesome.

Alex

Ahhh   go vertical with it, and in the background it would probably

work. Thanks for all the help.

Also Norm Charbonneau is a local guy who does great work. I'll have to

corner him at the next show and get his input....

I've seen it used to simulate a rock wall and it was very convincing. Unfortunately, I don't recall the species of tree, but the strips of bark were laid atop one and other horizontally. It was in an issue of the late "O Scale News".

Simon

In addition to bark using the inards of a down broken off tree works good too.  Russ