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making conifers out of scouring pads - Biased turkey - 01-21-2009 You'll need: barbecue sticks scotchbrite scouring pads First ( and the most important and delicate operation ) is to separate the scouring pad because it is made of 3 layers. With your hands ( scissors gives a too regular shape ) roughly cut the layers in pieces of various diameters size. ( I use various Canadian coins as a template ) Please use a dust mask for those 2 operations. Cut the barbecue stick ( 2.5 " is Ok for N scale ) , sharpen the tip and paint it a dark gray color. Apply some Elmer's glue on the stick and insert the scotchbrite "disks" in decreasing diameters on it . And voila ... your conifer is ready. You can spray the tree with Woodland Scenics scenic cement and sprinkle some mixed turf on it. Jacques Re: making conifers out of scouring pads - Ralph - 01-21-2009 Looks good to me Jaques! You could forest an entire hillside for not too many bucks! Ralph Re: making conifers out of scouring pads - Biased turkey - 01-23-2009 Thanks Ralph for taking some of your valuable time to reply. Those conifers are not exactly the kind I would put in the foreground of my layout.; I'll make several of them and group them on my small oval layout. Of course on my 12" X 24" switching layout, foresting "an entire hill" would be quite difficult to do. Jacques