Help with layout scenics
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daviis
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Hi!
I have not posted for a while on the forums, but I'm back now 
I thought, I'd share my scratchbuilt birch trees and the build process. Any helpful comments are welcome.
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I started with a few twigs:

and a bag of seafoam:

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I spray painted them white and added the black bark pattern with a black pen.
Then I drilled small holes in the trunk and glued the seafoam on it:

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Brown primer on the branches:

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Then spray glued and sprinkled Noch leaves (different shades) on the branches:

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They look really good. Think I should have a go. Last time I made a tree it looked like somebody had stuck things to a twig, they had, it was me.
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They look very good. It's amazing how many silver birch trees there are on railway embankments.
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Very life like, well done.
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