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Posted: **Tue Mar 14, 2023 6:11 pm**

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.

Posted: **Tue Mar 14, 2023 6:12 pm**

I started with a few twigs:

and a bag of seafoam:

Posted: **Tue Mar 14, 2023 6:14 pm**

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:

Posted: **Tue Mar 14, 2023 6:14 pm**

Brown primer on the branches:

Posted: **Tue Mar 14, 2023 6:15 pm**

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

Posted: **Tue Mar 14, 2023 6:16 pm**

I also made a video of the build process:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wk5TTWvyGY

Posted: **Tue Mar 14, 2023 6:45 pm**

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.

Posted: **Tue Mar 14, 2023 10:01 pm**

They look very good. It's amazing how many silver birch trees there are on railway embankments.

Posted: **Wed Mar 15, 2023 7:54 am**

Very life like, well done.

Posted: **Wed Mar 15, 2023 12:55 pm**

They look great!

Scratchbuilt birch trees