Super-cheap Chinese trees

[Fitz]

Some time ago I bought a whole lot of plastic trees from China to make wargaming terrain with. I've finally got around to making a start on basing some of them.

The bases are 3mm MDF, the brown forest floor is real dead leaves munched up in a little ten dollar coffee grinder, and the grass is old-school sawdust flock. Lurking in under the trees behind the Lanchester armoured car is a 15mm British wireless operator, but so good is his camouflage that you can't really see him.

They're not the most realistic terrain pieces ever made, but considering that the trees cost me about fifteen cents each, and everything else was basically free, I'm pretty happy with the results. This is about a fifth of the whole bunch, so I've still got a bit of work ahead of me.

[Golgotha]

I have also bought similar and they are well worth it and with a bit of work can look really good.

[Noverre Man]

If only they would do some Not Merit alder trees.

[Vagabond]

Fitz - the problem with trees is that every manufacturers looks so different that generally they don't match. i think these look good, do you have the link to the manufacturer, i may need to buy some of these.
thanks

[Shahbahraz]

Fitz - the problem with trees is that every manufacturers looks so different that generally they don't match. i think these look good, do you have the link to the manufacturer, i may need to buy some of these.
thanks

Seconded.. those are some of the best ones I have seen.

[Sterling Moose]

Care to share a link for the trees?  I could use some more but want a fairly realistic look not the horrid, shiny, soft plastic type.  Thanks.

[FierceKitty]

I avoid Chinese mail-order these days, having previously got stuff that bore no resemblance to what I'd ordered.

[Fitz]

Do you have the link to the manufacturer, i may need to buy some of these.

I don't, I'm afraid. I just did a search on Aliexpress.com for "railway modelling trees" and it came up with a bajillion of them.

[Sterling Moose]

I don't, I'm afraid. I just did a search on Aliexpress.com for "railway modelling trees" and it came up with a bajillion of them.

That's the trouble, Ebay and Co are saturated with them so finding some that look decent is a challenge.  In fact you could say that you can't see the wood for the trees!!

[Rich H]

I've binned several batches of cheap trees, mostly because they are luminous green.

Sometimes you get lucky though and htey look fine.

[PhilB]

I've binned several batches of cheap trees, mostly because they are luminous green.

Sometimes you get lucky though and htey look fine.

Couldn't you, like, re-dye them to be a different shade? Something like a paint dip?

[Fitz]

The most lurid, ghastly coloured trees can be salvaged with a couple of cheap cans of spray-paint.

[Rich H]

They were not nice shapes or nice trunks and the foam was falling off. 
I'd have to remake them which was why I was buying them in the first place!

[Mako]

Those look nice, and you can't beat the price.

Thanks for sharing. 

Even if you need to re-flock them, they certainly are far less expensive than those from railroad hobby shops.

[Just a few orcs]

Fitz - the problem with trees is that every manufacturers looks so different that generally they don't match. i think these look good, do you have the link to the manufacturer, i may need to buy some of these.
thanks

Not one of the trees in my garden matches any of the others., in shape or colour or size.  Even in our local wood there is vast variation