I want to take my first foray into making trees for my layout. Scenic Express offers kits for "Easy Tree Kits", "Super Tree Kits", Sage Tree kits". What is the difference> What has been your experience with these? Which would you recommend??
Thank you.
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As I remember, the Easy Tree kits are plastic armatures. Theybare about 4-5" high. Best to dry brush them with some gray and/or brown to eliminate the shiny plastic look. Easy to work with and for any of these instead of the expensive kits, get some poly fiber to stretch over the branches, then some flock or "leaves" of choice and sprinkle on. Cheap hairspray is a good adhesive. Super trees are very, very thin armatures and can work well for bushes but for O scale trees can be more difficult. Then don't have a lot of structure to support themselves but with a matte medium dunk they get stiffer. Sage Tree armatures can be great (I use a lot of real sage picked at the end of the season) as they really look like trees but to buy them in any reasonable size can be quite expensive. Hope this helps.
Jerrman
These are some of the larger trees that can be made with the Sage kits from Scenic Express. left upper corner. Here is a Scenic Express link, there is a "How To" video". Super Sage. Click on the highlighted link(s). Scenic Express Catalog, IMO, a wonderful resource for the layout build.
The sage kits includes sage , a real hardwood structure that makes an outstanding base. It should come with some super tree material which you will glue to the sage armatures to form the detail limbs followed by spray paint and then flocking. Here are two samples of Sage armature trees I made for the club layout.
Steve
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