Custom Hand-Made Trees & Shrubs photos
Woodland Scenics sells tree kits. I bought a $30 lit potted pine set from the Christmas aisle instead, harvested the branches for armatures, and dressed them with lichen and moss — ground and blended in a NutriBullet, of all things — to build a whole forest one conifer at a time. The album runs the full method: donor branches, homemade foliage, trees curing on foam blocks, and finally the finished stands planted along the ridges and mainline against the hand-painted sky. Hundreds of trees, and not one of them off a hobby-shop shelf.