The ROCK 3.0: Happy Little Trees

Yesterday afternoon, I moved the operation outside since it was so comfortable.  I received in a new box of Scenic Express Super Trees.  I worked on trees for about an hour.

This morning, I continued the project outside.  I didn't think I had that many more trees, but I ended up working out there for about another hour.  I don't know for sure how many trees I made, but I feel comfortable in saying at least 250 or so.  It was a lot!

My method of making the trees.  By no means, a definitive way of creating them, but it works for me.

1. Pull apart the Super Trees and shape into a good looking tree.
2. Spray with an extra hold hairspray.
3. Place flock (prefer Woodland Scenics) in a one quart container.
4. Turn the container on its side and roll the tree gently in the flock until covered.
5. Throw the tree in a collection box.
6. Repeat.

It goes much faster when I have help from my daughters.  They helped some, but not near as much as I would have wanted on this batch.  Here are some photos of the progress.

I thought I was nearly done with trees, but found tons of little trees I could make.  This was only a quarter of what I ended up finding at the bottom of the box.

Super Tree

Spray the weed with the hairspray.

Normally, I wouldn't go with the expensive stuff, but we had an abundance of it from Triple Coupon day a while back.

Woodland Scenics flock in a one quart container (compliments of the local Chinese Restaurant).  I gently roll the weed in the container while on its side after spraying with hairspray.

A finished small tree.

Chuck the tree into the pile for planting later.

Leftover tree trunks from the box of Super Trees

This evening, I cleaned the layout room.  This week will be busy, so I doubt I will get much more done on the layout.  I will probably plant the trees created this weekend though.  Layout is staged.  I need to update the administrative paperwork with inbound car counts and such plus clean the track and test run the locos this week.