Trees

[jbvb]

In HO, a 100 scale foot tree is 13 3/4" tall. 300 scale feet is 41 1/3" tall.  Calculator formula is (height divided by 87) times 12.

In N, a 100 scale foot tree is 7 1/2" tall. 300 scale feet is 22 1/2" tall.  Calculator formula is (height divided by 160) times 12.

[jbvb]

The biggest tree I've modeled is on my HO Rowley module, which has traveled quite a lot with the HUB Division Module Group.



It's 10" tall, so about 70 scale feet. I had to keep it below the top of the backdrop for transportation, but that's a realistic height for a big, old Sugar Maple growing alone.  Trunk and branches were twisted from an off-cut of 4/0 flexible copper welding cable. I smoothed the trunk and large branches with solder and acrylic modeling paste. I painted the trunk and applied Woodland Scenics fiber and ground foam foliage using clear Krylon as the adhesive. The tree is mounted with a screw into the trunk from below so it's removable.

[Olddude]

Thanks for all the info James. Very helpful.


So I have been close. So far, the tallest tree I have made in n scale is 7 1/2". So that is 100'.

The reason for my asking was the fact that I am wanting to model trees that exceed 200'. I just didn't know how far to push the height in n scale. So now, I can model some very large trees.

Of course, the bigger, the more detail required. Especially the trunks.

Now I order some fiber paste!

Thanks again James.

Dave