Making Our Large Wire Trees There are so many very good tutorials on YouTube that might be helpful. One I found showed how to make your gum trees foliage a lot thinner and his did look like gum trees. I tried to follow him but ended up with  much thicker trees so I have named ours Oak trees which we love anyway. Thank God the people that live in Glennanburg love whatever improvements we make and add to their little valley. You will need the following items to make your wire trees: -       Wire, I just used a gauge that I found I could bend and twist easily because there is a lot of bending and twisting. -       Pliers, you may find you may need this to help twist your wire, but on the internet some men have made some tools to help make this easier. I chose to just use the pliers and my figure....

                           How To Make Trees Made Out Of Rope We had collected some packets of trees on our travels over the last 10 years but when I came to making the mountain just like the flowers, weeds and shrubs I very quickly realized that we were going to need a whole lot more. I priced them online and didn’t want to pay the prices they were asking for them amount and we were going to need so many trees and not to mention the lack of variety to choose from, especially when I wanted gum trees, wattle trees, autumn trees, cherry blossom trees and just plain green trees of varying green foliage, so I decided to make my own. On the internet they show a few different ways to make the trees. But the type that interested me was ones made with string and rope, these look more do able for my first set of trees.  Here is a list of the following tools and items that you are going to need to make your own...

                 Making Your Own Ground Cover Foliage Above is a photo showing one of the types of ground covers that I have made slightly hanging of the cliff edge as well as ground cover. Spray this one brown and didn’t place any flocking on this one until I glued it down, then I sprayed some hair spray on to it and then sprinkle some ground up leaves on top of it and then re sprayed it again with the hair spray. When I come to sealing all my work I will seal this as well.   Below is a photo of what this foliage looks like after you have made it. Then when you want to place this foliage in your train layout or war diorama or even in your dolls house garden you simply pull it apart and glue it down using your Sticky PVA Glue. To make your own ground cover foliage you will need the following Items:  String or Rope -         Cheap hair spray (You will be using as glue) Baking paper -       ...