Boomer, I am a trained artist (I draw and paint), as well as an N Scale model railroader - watching your videos and listening to your incredibly insightful narrative has been the most inspiring path I have taken this year. I was in a hole with my layout, feeling overstretched, overwhelmed and under-inspired. After watching a number of your videos a small fire felt as if it had been lit in the hearth once again - that fire is now a re-invigorated Burning Passion, not only for the wonderful hobby of Model Railroading (itself a tremendous artistic pursuit), but in my Fine Art as well...your knowledge, talent, presentation, clear and concise explanations and obvious love of the learning experience deserves a FAR wider audience and a way bigger subscriber base. I don't say this lightly, I find your channel to be the most inspirational channel of the dozens I subscribe to. ALL Kudos to you sir - you have a gift. Cheers from downunder in Melbourne, Australia...

Thank you Boomer for this lesson. I have been looking forward to this since you mentioned it when you showed these trees a few weeks back. I learn so much from you every video, not only the clique, but thought process. Your generosity to this community is remarkable.

Another great video/primer and refreshing info from prior videos! Well done!

Outstanding realism! Thank you for explaining it.

Good one . Still learning. Thank you.

Wonderful. Thanks.

Amazing trees Boomer. Your work is impeccable!

Thanks Boomer, another well paced tutorial. Cheers Peter from downunder.

excellent video, right on point, very detailed, easy watch

Im glade you did aspen trees. Great vid

Boomer, great video, just so inspirational on trees. A great technique, and the impression from, as you say, 87 feet for HO Scale. Every video of yours I watch, I learn something new, and as a 65+ year old, that is harder to do. Thank you for sharing, and cheers, stay safe, Michael

I also found that with seafoam/supertrees you only get ONE type of tree. With with your tips, some wire, and practice, you can make almost ANY type of tree! thanks Boomer!

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Thanks for another great video. I’m so glad I ran across your channel. When I get to work on the layout again, all of your information will be a great help.

Dear Boomer, impressionistic trembling aspen trees, wow, how much deeper can we immerse ourselves into our model railroads? Love that thought. Especially with the 1:87 distance rule for the eyes. That should be obvious for any scale ratio and is a great rule(r) for improving impression quality. And/or for improvement of perception quality. Love the aspen build up, think you’re spot on with the darker tops. Made some aspens from failed ‘evergreens,’ painting the tree bark distinction too high up makes the trees look rather silly. The bark impression then just looks like a stretched up sock, where the trees’ canopy has ‘high water.’ Just as reference TT is 1:120, N is 1:160 apart from British 1:148, and Japanese 1:150. Cheerio

Another amazing video! I can’t say enough how good your trees look. The floral stem and wire loop system really is sort of a one technique to rule them all. Pines, cedar, aspen, it sort of does it all. From over the shoulder length those look amazing. I think mixing the light and dark nache leaves is something I will do on all my trees. It adds those sun highlights and shadows without even trying. Total fan of stain painting. It is like you just slog on the paint and see what happens. I would say 80% of the time it is perfect. Little things you could never do if you tried doing it.

My trees have improved tenfold by watching your methods and techniques and using them in dioramas. Many thanks for the teachings and inspiration sir !!

That’s a coincedence, I was just building trees yesterday night when your video came online. I am modeling ashtrees and alders which are very common in where I live. My intension is to make trees in fall with almost no leaves which is quite difficult. But a challenge is always nice.

I’m going to be modelings northern Ontario and this is a great basis for the Birch trees I want to model. Thanks for a great video!

Again.. thank you for a great video and so much inspiration. I never thought I could do trees (my old layout is full of store bought!) but my 5 or so firs look pretty damn good if I don't say. and I do have a spot were I think an Aspen grove will look good. Onward. and thanks again.

So once again I watch your video and say, I gotta try that and maybe add a grove of Quaking Aspens on The Mondovi Line, but I need to google to find out if they are indigenous to Wisconsin, hoping I've found a loophole to skip creating them, but of course, they are found in 100% of Wisconsin. 😀 Luckily, Michaels is close by, and I have most of the supplies downstairs already. Let's give it a try!

Joseph Campbell called those moments “Peak Experiences”. When everything seems to be just right. I hope I’m able to create trees as well as you do. I need tons!!! I’m modeling northeastern New Youk State!

Watching other modelers videos, I’m impressed how many give you credit for their efforts.

We have a lot of eucalyptus trees here out west coast. I was inspired by your wire tree tutorials, your right, u have to physically do it, to learn. the impressionistic look of their unique trunks is what’s key. THANKS again Boomer, will try these next.

Thank you for sharing us your technique for Aspens. I enjoy making trees and learning the different ways of making them. It's mental therapy for me to make any kind of trees.

I'm 'steeling' myself for a tree binge-build very soon. Having got the track and wiring done for the very small section of Midway Yard that resides on our layout, it's time to build one of the ubiquitous tree walls that spring up everywhere in Minnesota along the right of way, including around the yard. Your tree videos will be an incredible help as I learn to do both Seafoam trees and some wire armature trees for specific parts of the yard - indeed many specific scenes on the layout over time. I'm looking forward to the learning process and I have no doubt I'll be revisiting many of your videos as I try different things and continue to create our little bit of Minnesota in Melbourne. As I've mentioned previously, I'm a classically trained pianist and enjoy the privilege of performing from time to time. Learning by doing applies to everything I'm sure, music certainly, and watching videos of the likes of Gilels, Rubenstein, Richter or Sokolov will not produce a great performance of one's own. Inspiration in part, but not a performance worth of the part of their lives an audience gifts to you. Walking through our own grove of aspens as a spiritual experience that influences artistic expression is something I think we all must find if we are to give our best, including interpretation of the great classics. Thank-you again for sharing.

Thanks Boomer. This is excellent timing for me. I have had all the materials for a while now to get started butt I can't seem to get motivated because I'm working on several different structures and streets but I look forward to making my first wire frame tree. I've been working on my layout long enough now to totally identify with all your observations. I discovered early on that this is my passion when I tried to keep sharing my enthusiasm with people who don't. If you share your enthusiasm with someone who only has a concerned look on their face like they might be calling the little guys in the white lab coats then it just might be your passion😊. I find that some people never find their passion and discover how to enjoy this life.

Really great Aspens. And, not one "quacking" Aspen in the bunch! LOL. (Yes, I have seen people make those...)

Aspen forests really do have a different kinda feel to them when you walk through them, the rustling of the leaves and the colours of the trees just make it incredibly beautiful. In ANY season even. It just always has a different charm about it. 😊 If I had all material, I'd start crafting immediately. I'd love to make a few golden, slightly orange or red ones just for the fun of it while watching you and hearing your explainations.

Very well done. Another great video to be used for reference. Great job. Thanks for sharing these techniques. Cheers - Larry.

I was walking through the woods the other day after a rain. I took a photo and sent it to my family. When I described the picture I said that a photo cannot intimate all the 5 senses and that I wish I could take a picture of the smell after a soaking rain that follows a drought. My daughter replied "Petrichor". I had never heard the word before but when I looked it up I knew she had nailed exactly what I was sensing. It comes from the Greek which roughly translated means the blood that runs through the veins of the immortals.

“When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy.” - Walt Whitman

As you were explaining the composition of the trees, the variations, and the impressionisic style, I looked at the woods approximately 1000' across the field as a comparison. You are spot on. Thanks for the great tutorials.

Boomer, I have no words. Thank you for another incredible lesson..

Fantastic tutorials. * subscribed *

Love these types of videos. The Zen of Crafting! Really captures a natural interpretation without overworking it. Thank you again for the inspiration! 😊

Wow looks easy. But I know it's not. LOL I will try out some of these for my N scle layout. Thank you for sharing. Can not wait to see what they will look like on the River road.

Again, THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!! Those trees look amazing and as you said, pretty simple after watch my pro teacher us. I’m going to look up those leaves to see where I can get them, I’ll try Michele’s or we also have a Hobby Lobby close to me but if you have a suggestion where you get yours, please let me know? Thanks again and your like a fine wine, you only get better. Ron

Very good work!

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My favourite vlogs!! I have been studiously building trees for the past 8 months and it’s great to see a new genus of tree. Can’t wait to try building these. Do you use any moulding paste on the trunks?

Boomer, excellent as always. Can you comment on the commonalities/ differences between modeling aspen and modeling birch trees, which are more common in my area?

Another wonderful experience listening to and watching. I wondered if you have any words to guide me. I’ve been building various species of trees using your methods since I first came across your channel with considerable success. I am moving from general trees to attempting specific species. I am wanting to create crab apple trees. Any words of wisdom for me? Rob

Newbie here! You went from little wire loops with fuzz on them to beautiful branches! What is technique to turn that loop into a branch?? I can't wait to try this!

Thank you Boomer for sharing. I want to make some Birch trees for layout. Basically a shorter version. Would you use a 14 gauge for a birch ? Thank you

I tried this technique recently. Unfortunately my kittens were far too interested in playing with the wire. Any advice on cats and trains?

Do you keep the wire loops once the branches are flocked, or do you cut them?

Did you cut the loops around 18:00?

N scale is 160.

Boomer does this work for N scale and/or all scales?

boomer the bigger tree did you twist some of the lambs to make more lambs ?

Boomer, you make go to Micheals and Hobby Lobby like once a week😂 now i got to get more suplies.

Boomer, beautiful work but anyone with a bit of common sense knows that's not how you make YOUR finished trees. It's IMPOSSIBLE to make the branches from the way you showed using a single loop wire method. If you look at the tree you are painting after the 18:54 minute mark, its not possible. You would need to make 4 to 5 loops at that exact spot of that branch to get all those branches like that at one location. It's IMPOSSIBLE to go from the tree you were flocking to the tree you were painting using the method you showed.

Amazing trees Boomer. Your work is impeccable!