Scotch-Brite trees

[Patrice]

Many years ago I quickly made some hedgehow trees with green Scotch-Brite material. They are a bit damaged now, I must repair them and paint them better and I shall make some more. Hedgehows on earthen banks are a typical feature of the countryside in Brittany.



Believe it or not: I heard that some people use such material to clean saucepans! People really have strange ideas! Cleaning saucepans with trees!  

It is not expensive and it is easy to carve and to improve with some paint, but thick Scotch-Brite (at least 2 or 2.5 cm thick) is not for sale everywhere and may be difficult to find.

[Alfrik]

My approach to trees:

http://armoredink.blogspot.com/2010/06/easy-trees-to-make-mark-ii.html

[Patrice]

Thanks Alfrik, but - is "Clump Foliage" solid enough? I had bad experiences with some model trees in the past.

I am careful with my minis but I must say that I am not so careful with my model landscape, my trees have to travel together in a box and be happy with it.

You can cut and carve Scotch-Brite easily, but it cannot be broken.

[Inso]

...it works well for hedges too:

[Klingsor]

I scrounged some floor scrubber pads from our cleaners. They are maybe 20mm thick and 40cm in diameter. The material was quite touch but shows promise. They were unused scrubber pads by the way, used ones would be . . . unpleasant. I pulled at the hedge section with a pair of pliers and hagged bits out of it to make it more irregular in appearance like the field hedges I am used to. I kept the offcuts of course, they work jolly well glued to the Woodland Scenics tree armatures, I just need to find a suitable glue.

Some of our American cousins mentioned filter material, both furnace and fish tank filter was mentioned on different websites. I must have a look at oven extractor filter material as well though my impression is that it is much softer. One of the websites, URL forgotten I am afraid, basically cut discs of the material and stuck it on tapered dowels to make coniferous trees of some sort, it looked much better than my description implies.