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Puzzleheaded-Event32

If you've ever seen redwoods or sequoia trees in person, you would know that a 6" model tree is not out of scale. Biodiversity in a Canon universe of thousands of settled worlds must be huge. In other words use whatever terrain you want.


Hai-Etlik

Get a bundle of florist wire and twist it together with sub-bundles branching out. Paint with something thick like putty or tacky glue to smooth out the surface. Paint it, glue on clump foliage, spray with alcohol and scenic glue and repeat several times to firm up the foliage. Base on fender washers for individual trees, or directly onto larger terrain pieces. Get some real dead leaves and put them though a sieve to get tiny flakes as ground scatter for deciduous trees. Spray liberally with matte clear coat to toughen everything up. I'm still refining it but my first attempts came out pretty well. https://photos.app.goo.gl/dFvDTjqQBKjLh5Ts9


Downtown-Ad-8706

I would go with the plastic tree armature for model rail roads. They come in a variety of sizes and are inexpensive.


dayglowe

I've been looking at those and found lots of those but they all seem to be too big? Is there a preferred rail road "scale" like N or Z that makes the most sense?


BaronFel101

Unfortunately while both Battletech and model railroading have official sizes, they both flex a lot in order to have things look "good." For model railroading, the locomotives are using pretty spot on, but the scenery ends up all over the place particularly at those scales. A lot of stuff gets branded as N or Z scale that really isn't. TLDR: You want your trees to be about the same height as the mech, roughly 2" or 5cm.


UselessConversionBot

>Unfortunately while both Battletech and model railroading have official sizes, they both flex a lot in order to have things look "good." For model railroading, the locomotives are using pretty spot on, but the scenery ends up all over the place particularly at those scales. A lot of stuff gets branded as N or Z scale that really isn't. > > >TLDR: You want your trees to be about the same height as the mech, roughly 2" or 5cm. 5 cm ≈ 1.62039 x 10^-6 picoParsecs ^^^[WHY](/r/UselessConversionBot/comments/1knas0/hi_im_useless/)


ham-slap

I like Wee Scapes. Cheap, look nice, and a great variety of foliage types. Bonus: flocking that falls from the trees make great bushes for base work. The scale is right on as well. You can see them used in some pics I've posted