More Trees....!

It seems that every time I pick up a twig or a piece of tree armature I find new ways of creating some amazing looking trees.

These are made from seafoam, also known as seamoss and super trees, whatever you want to call them they make for some of the best model tree armatures around!

As I type this blog entry those two trees are still poked into the keyboard.

The main difference with these trees is the way they have been flocked. My standard technique for adding foliage to trees has always started by adding ground foam followed by Noch leaves over the top.

One of the reason for taking this approch was due to the size of the Noch leaves package, they are only 100 grams so all in all you don't get much! I wanted it to last and that meant substituting other products as a filler.

I am very happy with my current method of making trees that can be seen in the latest tutorial... However the slight tweak that I did today has changed the way I will be making future trees. 
If you haven't seen the latest tutorial on trees here it is:
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Basically I'm going to be doing away with adding ground foam prior to adding the Noch leaves, sure I'll be using a lot more of the Noch product but the results are certainly worth it.

When viewed from a distance the comparison with the trees that have ground foam vs the newer style trees made purely from Noch leaves isn't all that noticeable however when view close up the difference is like chalk and cheese.
If you've been following along with my videos you'll know that I like to do close up photography so it will be interesting to see how these new trees change the look of the scenes I create.  

Realistic Scenery

These trees will feature in the latest scenery video I'm currently filming "Realistic Scenery Vol.11"
if you're new here and want to see some of the previous videos in the Realistic Scenery series you can see the complete list here:
Complete Guide Series - Start to finish scenery tutorials

You may have noticed I mentioned Noch Leaves a lot in this post, the main reason is because I have a few bags of the Noch product in my draw and that's what I've been using for most of the tree videos however there are other brands:

• TreeMendus - have a great range with a good variety of colors.
• All Scale Scenics - Available from OzRail Model Trains.
• Javis Scenics - Sells a leaf product however for HO scale it is too large although the scenic scatter they sell is made from sawdust and is good for modelling bushes with very small leaves and comes in a range of greens.
• MP scenery Products - I've used these a couple of times, I usually find them on eBay.
  
• Noch - I use the most
  
  

Just to name a few.
The only down side to Noch is they have stopped producing the Olive Green which happened to be my favorite... I'm currently waiting on a selection of the TreeMendus leaves which may take the place of Noch in the future as their range of colors is much better.