Trees for display

Dear friends,

As some of you know me, I like to display my figurines with their natural environment.
Recently I decided to create a North American/European forest setup for my newly acquired forest animals, so instead of spending lots of money on buying numerous Schleich fir trees, I found a really great alternative! Bachmann Trains - Scene Scapes! here are some links for the pictures:

Pine Trees
other type
Pine Trees
During Autumn...
more...

I'm really pleased from the product and recommend it to anyone with similar intentions!

they are realy good, but they aren,t too small?

alexmotoc wrote:

they are realy good, but they aren,t too small?

I think so too!

They look like a real trees :)

Philip

They come in different sizes; from 3-4 inches tall to 8-10 inches. Mine are 5-6 inches tall. I'll soon show pics compared with Schleich figures.

Gabe wrote:

They come in different sizes; from 3-4 inches tall to 8-10 inches. Mine are 5-6 inches tall. I'll soon show pics compared with Schleich figures.

Pleas, please, I can`t wait to see

Do you have them in Europe as well?

Gabe wrote:

Do you have them in Europe as well?

I have never seen them before. but the choice isn`t large in Denmark.
Also, as I did not know they exist, I never looked for them elsewhere ...
They look really fine !

Very nice trees, congratulations on the find and I can't wait to see the photos with the animal figures. There are lots of companies that make trees for models, especially model railroads.

Here is a scene created using only hand made artificial trees by Canyon Creek
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And this is a Madagascar baobab ttree done by Salvia, a French company
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Both of these companies ship world wide, and some individual trees are very expensive but to me it is worth paying the extra money. For less expensive trees that look pretty good try not only Scene Scapes but Woodland Scenics and Selkirk Scenery, all of these sell very nice and inexpensive trees and diorama supplies.

Thanks Phil! I'd definitely try them!
Tomorrow I'll post some pix (Friday)

Congratulations Gabe, the trees will look fantastic!

I love Madagascar baobab tree, it looks so real.

Here are pix of the trees with Schleich figures:

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So they are too small for the more modern animals.
They would be great with some Schleich Classic, Britains, Plaho...I don`t know the others
I like them very much

I know they are small, but they look great as a background ! :)

They are awesome!Please share more pics with the whole display!

Scale is the main reason I do custom trees, most popular scale for model trians is HO and that is to small, G scale would be the closest to Schleich as it is 1:24 but there are very few model trains that are that big. The trees I showed in the first photo average 30 inches high, that is a very large tree but fits the scale that I am using for my dioramas. If people are interested in custom trees I have been making them for some other members and my price is very inexpensive depending on the amount of work involved, I make palms and acacia trees the most but I am willing to try any tree that poeple are interested in.

Here is just an example of a pair of pandanus trees I made for aandmkw recently
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They are in scale with the Schleich wildlife figures but I can make them a little larger or smaller depending on the final use for each one.

Very impressive work, Phil! But 30 inches is WAY too high for an amateur diorama like my own.
I do it mainly for "good looks," and accuracy is not an important issue. :)

I don't mean for you or anyone in particular to have a scale tree, but for my dioramas the model train supplies are too small. As far as each persons own idea of a display and I am not the one who has to look at them so I don't feel that I should give an opinion on what your display should include or look like, my post was on my own preferences. Most of my trees are in the 12 to 14 inch range because that is the biggest I can make right now with the size of my oven. the pandanus tree in the last photo are around that size, I think a little smaller but with the foliage height they might be right around 12 inches. The trees in the first photo were done by Canyon Creek and are some of the best replica pines I have ever seen. As far as other trees there are several places where I get them, most of you have seen the trees and plants I get from Danny, he and I have collaberated with his sculptor to do some very nice custom trees. There is a woman in Florida who does some fantastic models and she has given me advice and tips to make my own trees, and I read a lot of scale model articles both in print and online for people who do military models, especially Viet Nam and the Pacific WWII diroamas. These are the inspirations for my models and I love doing them as a part of collecting the figures.

here's one of my favorite tree dealers
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I never tried trees from railroad scenery packs cause they have a very poor "price/quality" ratio for me - in Ukraine they cost too much, so it's more rational to buy Schleich fir trees which look more relevant next to the animals.

Gabe wrote:

... 30 inches is WAY too high for an amateur diorama like my own. I do it mainly for "good looks," and accuracy is not an important issue. :)

I share the same approach, Gabe. :)