Build a Tree with Bill🌲 - Start to Finish - Model Railroad Adventures with Bill EP242

Full guide to a tree build from start to layout placement 😃

[@Meysam0111]

تشکر بابت آموزش دوست عزیز ❤🙏🇮🇷🤘

[@herbkeedy1335]

Thank You Very Much for your demo!!! It seems like I have been watching videos for hours (and I'm sure I have been) and yours is the BEST one I've watched. I have subscribed to your channel and have given a thumbs up. I'm 74 years and getting back into model railroading (S 1/64 scale) after years of being away. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@williamdickman7917]

Nice looking trees....so much better than bottle brush style trees, thanks

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

Thanks!!! For sure. I couldn’t get what I wanted from commercial kits so I took to making them myself. It’s so satisfying 😃

[@greatnorthernrailwaytother4711]

Thanks Bill. Cheers Peter.

[@mobileandhostile7895]

⭐ Without doubt one of the best tree tutorials I’ve seen 😎 ⭐ Thanks for sharing your technique 👍

[@jaspermaust7125]

Thanks for the awesome video Bill! Very informative and helpful.

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

Glad it was helpful!

[@normanrowe2831]

Hi ya Bill. Nice refresher on how you build your trees. Thanks.

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

Thanks 👍

[@anfieldroadlayoutintheloft5204]

nice trees bill thanks lee

[@caseyvillemodelrailroad3877]

Great vidio, the trees look like they would stand up great on my Yard layout ...Thanks for the coffee...

[@w.rustylane5650]

When I attempt to do this, I'll probably use my airbrush. Cheaper than spray paint. Nice tree. Cheers from W Rusty Lane K9POW in eastern Tennessee

[@coalcracker1655]

Great Tutorial Bill,....very comprehensive & well explained !!!! Thanks

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

Thanks!

[@barrysmith8193]

Rather than just at random “making trees” I researched and am modeling my tree shapes on Douglas Fir and Hemlock Fir tree shapes that would be correct for my northwestern states area forest’s. I’ve made 25 Douglas Firs and 15 Hem Firs of mixed heights and will randomly mix them on the hillsides.

[@joeraderblackrockcentralrr]

GREAT VIDEO BILL. THANKS

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

Thanks Joe!!

[@bncsystemsshortline]

What a great video!!! Easy way to make trees. Very cool!!! You need to make 2 more to make it 450 trees. Hahaha!!!!

[@Parkinwad]

Love model railroading, and just found your channel! Thanks for sharing your way of making these trees. They look amazing and remind me of the deep forest in the Rockies here in Canada. Thanks again for sharing!

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

Thanks!!

[@dundasjunctionmodelr.r-jam8267]

Excellent video on making trees ,

[@OtterCreek]

Great tutorial Bill! I'll add this to my bag of tricks that I'm itching to use!!

[@theangelsmodellingandrailways]

A superb tutorial on how you do your trees, easy to follow, and a great way to build batches of them. Inspirational work Bill, thanks for the upload. All the best. Brian @ The Angels

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

Many thanks!!

[@edolsavicky5063]

impressive, and affordable 448!

[@jeffboswell6620]

Hey Bill love this method. Only thing I changed was I used fine sifted saw dust to glue and roll the trunk with since color doesn’t matter because it’s being painted. Trees are looking good can’t wait to make more

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

Saw dust would be what I would use too except I don’t have any 😂

[@vincenthuying98]

Great vid Bill, love the way you make your trees. Such a simple but effective method, with outstanding and awesome results!

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

Thanks 👍

[@410Gregj]

Hi Bill, love your modeling! I found a 3/8 - 1/2” balsa stick shapes quickly with a razor knife or better a draw knife. Than textured with a 4-5 wood screw moving up and down the trunk. Paint or flock. Insert a bamboo skewer in the bottom for planting. Might save a few minutes per tree. Also mounting in a drill for spray painting makes painting a little more even and faster. Happy modeling!

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

Thank us an excellent method as well. I did think of doing it that way but I found the wire just as easy to work with

[@johna.dawson709]

Thanks Bill for a great video. I'm starting to plan a ON30 logging layout and this tree making video will come in handy when i have to build and place trees on my layout.

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

Glad it was helpful!!!

[@randyjacobs9489]

Thanks! Just another method that I haven't seen but I really like it!

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

Glad you like it!

[@eXtremeFX2010]

Very Good Tutorial! Saving Thank You Kindly😊

[@davestrains6816]

Outstanding video. Thanks for sharing. Dave

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

Thanks Dave!

[@schadowolf]

Outstanding tutorial and great tips! Thanks for sharing, going to try this method for my layout.

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

Thanks!!

[@SleeperBBQ]

great show sir

[@richmurphy6043]

Thanks

[@patriksiegfried5050]

Awesome, I'II try to make some for Z scale, thanks. because the commercial ones look more like radiator brushes.

[@theoschmitt3037]

Sehr gut❤

[@raymarkey8062]

Love it, Manakin Sabot va

[@PatDrier-eu4lt]

Hey Bill, Very good video and helpful. Your finished product looks great! I was wondering if you could shed more light on the specific brand of furnace filter material you are using. Home Depot in our area only has fiberglass filter material, and I think you mentioned that the material you use is a natural fiber (14:57). Are you using Hog Hair filter material perhaps? We tried using Scotch-Brite scouring pads (Industrial Strength); the only thing we could find that seemed close, and it worked OK, but those are no fun to pull apart into thin layers. This seems to be the key part of great looking trees so we'd like to get it right. Thanks!

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

It’s called NaturalAire. I haven’t checked Home Depot in a while but I see online that places like Ace Hardware and others carry it. It works perfect for these trees 😃

[@PatDrier-eu4lt]

@@modelrailroadadventureswit6347 Thanks for the tip! Hopefully will work better than the Scotch Brite...haha.

[@reggaelatinus6705]

interesting technique

[@rick1716]

Bill, another great video and narrative! I appreciate the refresher course on how you make your pine trees. I hadn’t caught the part where you tear the the cut filter into four separate pieces before. Thanks a lot for time and details you put in your videos! 👍🏻👍🏻 I am glad you get so much pleasure doing scenery. To most of us scenery is the hardest of the hobby, but you make it enjoyable. How long did it take you to develop your tree technology or did you learn it from someone?

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

Thanks again!

[@veroniquelerosier2964]

C'est magnifique 👏

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

Thank you 🙏!!

[@deanstoki4848]

Bill, regarding your guardrails on the O scale standard bridge. It got me to thinking. If I may suggest. Since this layout reflects 40s-50s.. they still had fire barrels on the wooden bridges back then. Perhaps a couple on the mainline bridges?

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

I will be adding barrels at some point on those bridges. It’s on my mental list to do 😃

[@cowboyvalley]

Good how to, Bill! I have a question. When you took the layout to the train show, how many people made comment or had questions about the trees? ...Claude

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

Trees got the most comments from modelers and I’ll be giving an NMRA local clinic on them soon. Probably 30 or more folks commented on them and asked how I made them 😄

[@user-dc9qi8uy3v]

Palm tree

[@dundasjunctionmodelr.r-jam8267]

Going subscribe your channel

[@donaldkormos5529]

Question: Regarding the color of the furnace filter material. Would you recommend the green you used over other colors such as white, blue, pink, yellow, etc.? Maybe doesn't matter with the undercoat painting.

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

The color of the filter material probably doesn’t matter since the paint will cover. I did find that the natural fiber filters are better than the synthetic ones as you get a more natural appearance of what shows through in the end

[@donaldkormos5529]

@@modelrailroadadventureswit6347 Thanks Bill ... I'll look into natural filter material.

[@IvanDiaz-ng3zh]

Se pude vivirvde los diorama?????

[@HumancityJunction]

There were 135 trees in this video.

[@OtterCreek]

I counted 448 Heath!! ;-)

[@HumancityJunction]

@@OtterCreek I think you are seeing triple

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

452 total as of today 😂

[@John.Winans]

Brand/Color of 2mm static grass?

[@user-bw4eb5js8d]

yes would like to know this also please

[@thorjor1]

18g wire?

[@modelrailroadadventureswit6347]

That it is. 18g wrapped in natural fibers 👍🏼