Help ! How do i paint these trees?

[Skaville]

Hi all- recently got a batch of nice leafless trees (plastic, from Noch).

I´d like to make a dead forest kind of thing with' em, but i'm at a loss- can't really paint these the regular way, too many branches.
Spray and dip? Any suggestions ?

[sukhe_bator]

I'd get rid of the obvious mould line around the trunk first then spray a mid to dark brown and then overspray with white and dry brush with white...

[Skaville]

Righto.
Drybrushing these are gonna be ten kinds of suck, though.
Anyone know a workaround?

[nevermore]

Spray them black, dry brush brown, highlight light brown, bostik foliage, once dry hair spray the foliage and keep dipping in a tub of static grass, keep repeating till it looks ok, promise it will look the biz

[Skaville]

Thanks, gents!

[Drachenklinge]

The grasdipfoliage-version will most likely not look like a dead tree.

I'd go for the spray version, too. Brushing could be a bit tricky, not because there are so many, but because you cannot reach everywhere. Maybe they will bend into the brush, making more smear then brushing of it.
So ... spray base colour, then spray "highlights". I won't use plain white, cause that might look like frost and a bit too "wintery".
IMHO a cold brown like bleached bone, kommando khaki (if you can get such a spray) or something should be it, but not too much. No warm colours like ie terracotta, etc.

Finally I would put more effort into the bases and they will pull the treess in the right direction.