See how I built these trees and turned them into a complete mountain pine forest here: tinyurl.com/2bwvx8ej

@theohouk3476

7 ай бұрын

omg i wish. You are living my dream daddy

Great video Ron.

Ron, great video. Thank you for all the great tips on making evergeen tree trunks. Very informative, as are all of your how to videos are. Thanks again.

very impressive . like how the roots can be molded into the scene

Awe I found it! Thank you Ron for sharing.

post more, ron. Love your videos but there isn't enough!

Wow , That looks GREAT Ron !!!!!

@RonsTrainsNThings

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Mike. 👍🏼

These look excellent! I’m going to have to try this.

Awesome work as always! 👍👍

Great looking video!

This way looks very realistic, im going to have to remember this one for when i do my trees. Thanks for the tree tips

RON. This video was amazing! This video was the closest I have t being next to a train and I appreciate it. I am just getting into railfanning and I need tips and tricks. I will continue to tune in for videos so i can get better at railfanning. Thanks for everything.

Great way of implementing one of Boomer Diorama's favorite mediums.😊

@RonsTrainsNThings

9 ай бұрын

I am a Boomer fan, but I've been using fiber paste longer that I knew of Boomer. Just because two people use the same product doesn't mean one stole it from the other.

Nice work Ron!

@RonsTrainsNThings

9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Looks great Ron! Your videos really help the hobby. I've used your tips and techniques many times.

Interesting idea Ron, thank you for the idea

Great video! Thanks for showing some techniques. I cannot wait to try this on my layout.

Howdy Ron! Color me impressed. These look great! I don't have an artistic bone in my body, so having these tutorials will help me tremendously! I really liked the explanation on layering the paint colors. Well done and thanks for sharing 🤠

hello ron's it's is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks ron friends randy

I think I would cover the wire with some tape to give it some thickness before painting it with the paste

@RonsTrainsNThings

9 ай бұрын

These are supposed to lodgepole pines, so I didn't want them any thicker.

There is NOT enough trunks and dead trees either standing up or lying on the ground on most layouts that I have seen on YT! Does anyone agree?

@cymrych79

9 ай бұрын

100% agree. Unless you're in an urban forested park area or a tree farm, real untended forests are littered with lots and lots of downed logs and stumps, and of course leave litter and, depending on the health of the forest, varying degrees of understory brush/brambles. In my layout's forested areas, I have nearly a 1:1 ratio of standing "live" trees to deadfall, at least where the forest floor would naturally be visible. I also throw in a scattering of dead but standing trees. I don't have a photo to show, but I think it looks a lot more realistic.

@debbiemilka2251

8 ай бұрын

I just came back from a trip across the center of America returning from Tennessee. I saw a great deal of totally barren and quite possibly dead trees among the vibrant trees around them. I liked the dichotomy.

One way to add bulk to the tree trunk is during winding the wire by placing paper like the branch material between the wire and let it wrap around it as it turns. Another is to use paper with adhesive on it or even masking tape on the stem to wrap around the wires and then paint the texture on it to seal it as well. This technique is faster since the wrapping material basically encased the wire in many layers adding bulk at the same time instead and about all that's left is painting which can be textures as it goes on...

I would think you get a a better effect using balsa wood lathe turned wood

Two quick things about fiber paste. Scoop some onto a palate and keep the lid on the jar as it can setup and dry fast. Also you can thin it with water, so the first coat can go down almost like a think paint.

@RonsTrainsNThings

9 ай бұрын

Good idea on scooping out what you need. I should.have thought of that. Thanks

@dan8402

9 ай бұрын

@@RonsTrainsNThings It isn't my idea, Boomer Diorama said it. He uses a lot of Golden products and swears by them. He also makes the most amazing HO scale trees I have ever seen.

@CharlieDiamond-em5so

9 ай бұрын

A good substitute for Fiber paste, is making your own. I Model in HO gauge, but I’m sure a minor substitution will work for N gauge. I just take simple Elmer’s Glue, and mix it 3 parts Glue to One part fine grained Sand. (For N gauge, substituting the sand for a fine grain like Baking powder or Soda should work just as well.) this looks great on both Conifers and deciduous trees. Another trick for pines Barks with more of that ”Wood chip” type, (if you’re a Smoker like myself) is sprinkling the tobacco flakes, left in the bottoms of packs, onto the glue once it becomes more tacky then wet, then rolling the trunk with a BBQ skewer, to set it semi-flush. After a paint coat, and a black or dark brown wash, and a dry brushing of Grey, it’ll really pop nicely. 👍🏼

Impressive, i just started twisting my 200 pine trees yesterday man its gonna take a while to make them thanks for the videos!!

@RonsTrainsNThings

9 ай бұрын

Yes, I spent an entire weekend making 100 start to finish...I need about 7 or 8 more such weekends. 😯

@bulletsponge1656

9 ай бұрын

@@RonsTrainsNThings yah i saw that in your video well at least you'll have something to do in the winter!

hi ron !!! first, let me say a special "thank you" for all the great videos/topics you give us modelers !!! they are extremely helpful.... as a retired rx i am doing a lot of work on my pike and just placed a nice order to micro mark for more paperwork/bill boxes/etc... question, ron, do i need bill boxes for my yards ? i am a bit confused as david popp in "how to operate your model rr" summer 2012 says on page 27 i will need "1 compartment for each industry."... tony koester, in his 2nd edition of "realistic model rr operation" says, also coincidentally on his page 27, in the upper right hand corner " putting each waybill in a bill box labeled for that track"....the micro mark insert i got with my initial order years ago says " large yards or towns may require more than one bill box to keep your cards organized properly"... so i see the words "industry" by popp, "track" by koester, and "large yard or towns" by micro mark !!! i feel kind of bad about this, as my drugstore was started by our great, great granddad way back in 1883 and i have been responsible for every aspect of running a old fashioned drug store ( no chain stores for us !!!) all my life, from shampoos/ toothpaste all the way up to controlled substances on a pill by pill basis, not to mention everything else that was on my plate !!! as i have come to just love the way you present each topic, i realize that you have a very well defined method to all your modeling ideas and realize everyone does things a bit differently in our hobby. please help as i have watched your teaching videos and am still a bit confused !! blessings to you, ron !!! you are in my evening prayers tonight !!! denny armes springville,ny

Dear Ron, great vid, very interesting method. Am an absolute fan of the Golden fibre paste and as a matter of fact, any other Golden products. One remark, humbly think the application of the first layers of fibre paste is much easier when the tree isn’t planted in the foam. Plus, a first layer of Gesso will improve the bite on the twisted wire, before applying the paste. Love the way this method creates truly random tree footings. Cheerio

Can you do burnt trees next?? I want to do a forst fire scene, but don't know the best way to go about it with the trees.

Another great video Ron ! A lot of ideas to create new trees ! Thanks ! Question: I have a small hill in my layout, grade percentage around 1.5% on my digital level you recommended. Any suggestions or warnings for laying the track over this hill?

how did you get in to trains ? for me its the sounds of the train . ty for all your videos /?/

I looked at your video entry about custom coloring wood stains with water based colors and distilled water and a water flow aid. I've ordered the Liquitex products, but it seems somewhat counter intuitive to me. Why would your water based answer as is be better than say a water based clear finish such a Behr's satin clear water based interior fast drying polyurethane ? Is this a fume related issue or economy based decision ? Love your channel. You have been a great help for many of us, including myself, in helping us railroad modelers out there to bypass a tedious learning curve and achieve awesome results.

Hi Ron Really great looking trees there, would you know if that "Fibre paste" is available in the UK ? Thanks

@RonsTrainsNThings

9 ай бұрын

I really don't know. Search for Golden Fiber Paste.

Can you do a video on beginner model rr stuff? We just got a hawthorn village budweiser Christmas set and are starting out. Also, when we put on a flatbed car it makes the whole set stop working, why? Thanks!!

I bought a brass n scale steam locomotive with a wire that as far as I can tell was soldered from the trailing truck to the motor chassis frame (solder marks directly above and below each other; one on the bottom of the chassis, the other directly below it on top of the trailing truck aperture). The locomotive draws current but the lights don’t work and the loco doesn’t move. Im out of town so can’t make repairs now but given the problems the loco has, does that in your experience sound like something that can be fixed by just soldering the wire back into the training truck on one end then to the chassis on the other?

If you don't mind me asking, What is your ratio of paint to water for the burnt umber wash?

@RonsTrainsNThings

5 ай бұрын

I didn't measure per se, but approximately 20% paint, 80% water.

@c.seiler4577

5 ай бұрын

@@RonsTrainsNThings Awesome video! I'm going to use this technique (with a couple modifications) along with your twisted wire pines, for my layout. Thank you for the response, and video!

this probably has beat to death but i need to know! it has been about 2 / 3 years since i played with my h o dcc trains. how do i get the trains to run on the tracks? i have 2 big boys and several 4 8 4 loco tnx 73 dan

There is a much easier way for conifers: take a 3 mm plastic tube from Evergreen, score it lengthwise with a medium hack blade, and paint with gray, adding dry brushed brown and black highlights. Fast, easy, and remarkably real, the wire trunks go smoothly inside. Plus, no messy fiber paste with long drying times.

Ron, great video. Thank you for all the great tips on making evergeen tree trunks. Very informative, as are all of your how to videos are. Thanks again.