From acorns.....

I found these seed pods / mini pine cones on some trees as my parents house in the early summer and being the freebie junkie that I am I picked up about 30 or so to see if I could use them in some way with my 10/15mm terrain.



Having let them throughly dry out for a few of months, my mind turned to making them into trees for some normandy orchards, so I cut the stems so they were relatively straight, superglued them to pennies and then flocked them with a green turf mix. A bit of grit on the base, and this is them sat in my make shift spray booth having just been varnished.



Bases will be given a quick wash with Sepia shade, and then given my usual grass treatment so they match the rest of my terrain. Total cost......1p each(for the pennies) + glue, flock and wash which I had already. I'll post some in game pics at the weekend.

Super quick, super cheap,

Cheers,

Craig
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Awesome!

*Off to find a tree*

Those are absolutely terrific Craig.
Do you know what the scientific name of the tree is ?
Cheers - Phil

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nice Craig, really quite effective

Yep, those are the same 'cones' I've used on some of my orchard trees. Really effective though.

Great stuff!

Excellent, bargain price as well.   

Thanks. I dont know what the tree is, next ttime I visit I'll try and ID it

There were like a cross between a pine cone and a catkin.

Cheers,

Craig

Very effective. They look like Alder cones to me.

A quick Google image search confirms they are Alder cones.

Well done Colin,

Cheers,

Craig

Surely they're Pinus decemilis.

What ever they are, leave them a good few months to dry so that all the seeds come out before you flock them.

Quote from: WeeWars on 19 September 2013, 04:39:14 PM
Surely they're Pinus decemilis.

You had me going for a minute there. 

Lucky shot! Simple cheap but very realistic scenics.

Bloody brilliant 

Excellent, Craig. I've seen pine-cones used as trees before but they're fat more realistic.

Are they alder cones? I have used these for many years:

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Things seem to have been made a little more difficult at photobucket again.

There you go DP:



You'd lost a "]" after the first "img" somehow

Happens quite a big when trying to copy and paste with a t'ipad!