Nature provides many great examples of miniaturized vegetation that we can use on our layouts. So I’m continuing with my series on using natural materials from your own yard or fields to make inexpensive and pretty nice trees. You might consider this a strange material for a tree because it causes some people with allergies…
The best material for modeling trees that look like trees is natural vegetation… nothing beats it. For years I’ve used various kinds of natural materials from the yard, my wife’s gardens, and fields near my house. One of the easiest pieces of vegetation to use is a bloom from the Oak Leaf Hydrangea. Note that…
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