Wire Trees

Here is a tutorial on making wire trees.

You start off with stranded electrical wire.

Strip it bare.



Take a few strands and twist at the bottom only.



As you progress upwards seperate and twist again to form branches from main trunk.



Solder trunk and all branches to create strength and stability.



Now paint the tree brown and the fine ends green.



To add flock glue the tips with PVA glue and flock with dry tea leaves.

This creates a nice autumn\fall tree as below. If you want to change it to a summer keep watching this space.





When creating these remember to do a few at a time and not just one.

Cheers

Paul

Making Pines

Here I will be showing you how to make simple pines.

 Cut strands of sisal rope in shape of pine tree.

Place rope in wire.

After spinning as per tree making tutorial remove excess wire on top of tree.

Twist top few rope strands as per photo.

Add a bit of PVA to tip.

Your tree should look similar to this.

After glue has dried trim tree to desired look.

Make a mixture of Water and PVA Glue in ratio 50:50

Dip tree into mixture.

 Allow for excess mixture to run off, you could use an old paint brush to aid you with this.

Apply the sawdust flock, make sure you get it into the core.

Flock tree thoroughly from all angles.

Tap stem to remove excess flock and allow to dry. You could give it a spray of clear matt varnish to prevent additional loss of flock.

My pine forrest at present.

Cheers
Paul

Layout 2

I have had some time to continue by adding a few homemade trees and hedging.

The next few photos will show me adding the hedges around the farm.

Hedges completed.

Not sure what next but keep popping in!!

Trees

Here is a quick tutorial on making trees.

Material used:
Rope
Copper wire
Spray paint
Spray adhesive
Flock

Rope

Copper wire cut to required size and bent into U shape.

Cut rope to required sizes and flare. Insert it into copper wire.

Insert wire into variable drill, clamp bottom with pliers and start drill.

Your tree should look something like this now.

Trim tree to required shape and size.

Spray stem brown.

It should look as follows.

When dry spray on adhesive.

Flock with foam folliage flock.

Here are a few final products.

Hope this has helped.

Remember no two trees are alike.

Paul