I've been thinking about adding a few eastern white pine trees to the layout, and have been trying different approaches to making their trunks. After a few failures I thought I'd simply try and use the same technique as I did for the cedars, but scale everything up. Cedars max out at around 30 to 40 feet tall, and these pines come in at around 80 to 90 feet, so the corresponding armatures are roughly twice as long. The armature in the photo consists of 3 stem wires for the trunk instead of one, with branches of 24 gauge instead of 26. I'm trying some other combinations, and I'll post other armatures as construction rolls along.
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