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Hey everyone,
Yesterday I was messing around with building some terrain and realized I am lacking trees. I took out some thick wire and made some knarled looking trees. I just took about 6-8 cuts of wire (8 inches long for 2 trees and 5 inches for another) and I twisted them together to make a truck, roots and then twisted the wires at the top in bunches of 2 for the branches.
Turned out great but now I need to know what I should do to make the bark?

I was thinking either some polyfil over the entire thing because I could texture it fairly well.
I just don't know if that is the way I should go or not because it might be hard to get a nice looking texture using that technique.
After I plan on painting them brown/grey and gluing on some bunches of flock.

Any ideas?

Check the tutorials section with the lava board that's been bumped up today. The "wood" was made from plaster cast tissue.

Ah ya I actually saw that just now, I don't really know where I could get that stuff but it does give a good result!

How posh polyfilla will work but so will masking tape. less artsy far easier alternatively both.

 chiefbigredman wrote:
I don't really know where I could get that stuff but it does give a good result!

Have access to any craft stores? It's a fairly common item. Kids use it in art classes (at least, we did when I was a youngin') and for dioramas/science fairs (plaster cloth has replaced (news)paper mache as the standard material for building crappy "working" volcano models), model railroaders use it to skin over the skeleton of hills in their layouts, etc. Pretty sure I've even seen it in the little arts and crafts aisle at Walmart - I imagine you can find a Canadian equivalent without having to travel far.