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Modelling Trees Part Two

 

Author:

Gordon Gravett

Publisher:

Wild Swan Publications Ltd.

Published:

2012

ISBN:

978-1-905184-98-9

Pages:

92

Type:

softbound

Another high-quality book about trees, but this time focused on conifers. This second installment also has lots of prototype, model, and construction color photos in it. These books are hard to get in the U.S. I got mine from International Hobbies in Auburn, California (out of business)

Chapter

Page

Title / Description

1

Conifers in the British Countryside

13

Modelling Conifers
Trunks and branches, painting, color charts, foliage, static fibers, cone-shaped generic and background conifers, rubberised horsehair.

33

Modelling Specific Types of Conifers
Sitka spruce, scots pine, maritime pine, larch, log piles, home-produced foliage mat, yew, redwood.

90

Appendix
Adding cones, ivy and creepers, comparative heights of trees, sources of materials, suggested Tamiya colors, reference books.