How can I make good trees?

[tahra]

Of course the trees are less stable and tend to fall over a lot if the leaf-bits are only attached with one hole rather than three. What can you do?

I have discovered that the trees do tend to fall over 

I pick them up, again and again and AGAIN 

[Raven]

For my magical forest....

Of course!  I should have thought of looking at that again for ideas!

I've been experimenting with trees, and yes, more leaves makes a lot of difference.  And smaller trees as well: what was intended to just be branches put into the base and made into shorter trees.  I'm intending to start the 'real thing' woodland area within the next day or two.

But I'm now aware of two more little problems.  One is the amount of trees needed.  I really thought that I had lots of trees.  But my lots of trees is really not enough.  And the other problem is my lack of small green bases to put the trees (and undergrowth/bushes/ferns) on.  I thought I had lots of those too.  But, again, there is not enough.  I need the small bases, so that the trees and other green things can be close together.  I don't have enough small green bases.

However....

There are sets that I want, so I don't want to buy tree parts and little green bases from Parts right now.  I just wouldn't feel enough happiness in return for the money.  I want to be happy about sets, not feeling 'oh yes, here they are,' about green bases.  So I'm going to have to stick with what I have.  And see what I can do with it.

[Klickteryx]

What about getting a piece of board and drilling holes in it that the trees can stick into. You could even decorate the board with paint and other materials to make paths etc.
It would also have the advantage of not tipping over.
One large board or several smaller boards that can be placed together.

[Rasputin]

We have struggled with this for years. Please let us know what you come up with

 http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=12326.msg232530#msg232530

[Tiermann]

A few more hints - don't be afraid to put the leaf clumps directly on the ground or on rocks or whatever you need to fill in space. Also, tree branches fit into the holes in rocks so use the small rock clumps in addition to the green grass pieces to hold trees up.
Take a look at the third post in this ancient thread: http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=3944.0
It shows some jungle images I made and talks about how I did them, showing a side and above view of the scene layout. You can accomplish a lot with planning - look at what you did with your zoo buildings - just apply similar principles to forest creation.

[Raven]

The information on the link is great. Especially about the use of colour; and where and where not details matter.

I'd love to have a nice backdrop, but I don't have that; nor do I have any good lighting (just one low-level energy saving light bulb, and whatever nature gives to me).  Due to vision problems, I can't even see what I'm photographing until I look at it on the PC. But I don't believe in wishing for or waiting for the perfect things - my attitude is 'I'm going to do it anyway'.

But I'd like to do it the best I can.

I think my trees are improving.  Maybe this is a little bit too dense:



I liked this tree though (with the natural background of a jar with a few sandwich boxes in it ... that was to prevent cats from standing on a space on my clean green cardboard):

[tahra]

I think my trees are improving.  Maybe this is a little bit too dense:

Looks GREAT!

I liked this tree though (with the natural background of a jar with a few sandwich boxes in it ... that was to prevent cats from standing on a space on my clean green cardboard):

[Daniela]

At the German Board, Ute has designed a big, big tree with the tree of the new Adventure Treehouse 5557.

I like it very much!! 

Take a look:

http://www.klickywelt.de/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=59073&p=799564&hilit=baumhaus#p799564

[Klickteryx]

I think my trees are improving.  Maybe this is a little bit too dense:

Not too dense at all.
Look at this bit of forest for instance:


Looking at all the fern I'm thinking playmobil needs smaller ground ferns to fit better under the trees.

[tahra]

At the German Board, Ute has designed a big, big tree with the tree of the new Adventure Treehouse 5557.

I like it very much!! 

Take a look:

http://www.klickywelt.de/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=59073&p=799564&hilit=baumhaus#p799564

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I remember in the exhibition during the PCC tour there was a victorian dio with a VERY impressive tree..

Now where's that pic...  (from the PROCESS)