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Re: Can't See The Forest For The Trees?
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lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle
Date: 
Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:42:22 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, John Neal wrote:
   Perhaps it is because the forest is blocked by these:-)

No, these aren’t from James Whitmore’s garden [1], they are part of the TCLTC’s next building phase!

There isn’t much to them in terms of building complexity, but I think that they have a cool effect, especially with figs in close proximity.

Just the facts:
  • They are quite heavy, so I needed to insert a stiff metal rod through them to give them enough support to stand.

  • They are composed of basically 5 sizes of “rings”. The pics basically tell the whole story, except here is my one little innovation: **Mutilation Alert** I didn’t like the thought of constantly refoliating the trees before and after every show because of delicate branch connections, so I cut flex tubing and inserted it in the branch joints, so as to make the bond between the 2 elements rather robust. You can see hints of some of the blue and black tubing HERE.

  • How many branches per tree, you ask? First off, you sound like a mom at a train show: “How many Legos (sic) did this take?” (as if I counted). But, my friends, this is your lucky day. I knew this question would come up and so I counted for you: the tree on the right HERE contains about 674 branches. BTW, My wallet wanted to say: “Hey, TLG, offer this part in bulk perhaps?” :-)
I am still experimenting on the shapes of the trees-- but I think these are an okay first effort.

Hope you all like them! They’ve grown on me;-)

JOHN

[1] Remember, he’s the guy who used to hawk Miracle-Gro



Well John, you’ve done it again. You and your son Ross never cease to amaze me with your creative thinking. Fortunately I had the forethought to pickup a sizeable amount of the castle foliage last year so I’ll have to try this out. I may spread the layers a little bit though so I can experiment with using flower stems as well. What size rod did you use?

Ondrew



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(...) Thanks for the kind words, Ondrew. The rods I used were purchased at a hobby store and were manufactured by K&S Engineering Chicago, IL. They are 1/8" diameter. But don't take my word for it-- do as I did and take a few 2x2 round bricks to ye (...) (19 years ago, 19-Dec-05, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, FTX)

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Perhaps it is because the forest is blocked by (URL) these>:-) No, these aren't from James Whitmore's garden [1], they are part of the TCLTC's next building phase! There isn't much to them in terms of building complexity, but I think that they have (...) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build, FTX) !! 

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