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A Guide To Tree Building

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Having seen several ways to build Trees, I thought I would gather a few links together.

If you want to help, just post a link or suggest new methods.

If a new method is posted I will try to update the list as soon as possible : -

https://www.flickr.c...lego_arboretum/ Lego Arboretum. a Flikr Stream created by : Many people

Christmas Tree with santa and his helpers. created by :

Apple Tree. created by : dugmence.

The White Tree. created by : Disco 86.

created by : paultox

Twisted Trunk created by : Marco den Besten

Flat Top Tree created by :

Weaving Leaves created by : Katie Walker

In reality a lot of trees have main trunks that appear dark grey, pale grey or tan, rather than dark brown or reddish brown used in most lego trees.

Black Tree created by : Patrick Massey

Grey Tree. created by : Luke Watkins Hutchinson

Grey Trunk Tree created by : blueaandwhite

A Silver Birch. created by : Sir Nadroj

Three Trees created by : Paul Tuxopeus

Alien Plant created by : Karf oohlu

PINE TREES

created by : mayday artist

Small Pine Sapling created by : konze (Tommy M)

Pine Tree with Cones created by : Subix

I seem to have lost the links for a lot of these while editing the post, so please have patience while I try to find them. :)

More Pine Trees. created by : Ru Corder

Conifer Tree. created by : Ru Corder

Cyprus Tree created by : gedren_y

Palm leaf Pine Tree created by : Subix

Snowy Tree created by : tbaixinho

Cyprus Tree created by : Thoy Bradley

SEASONAL TREES

Cherry Blossom created by : 片岡 ひろし

Blossom Tree created by : lostcarpark

Blossom Tree created by: baptisterium

Autumnal Tree created by : Brother Steven

Multi colour Autumnal Tree created by : Regenerate builder

SWAMP TREES

Weeping Swamp Tree created by : AC Pin

Swamp Tree created by : JackJonespaw

JUNGLE TREES

Jungle Tree created by : Ecclesiastes.

Jungle Plants created by : Jareth.

Jungle Plant created by : Angeli

TROPICAL PALM TREES

Standard Palm Trees created by : aredhel

Complex Palm Tree created by : Carson Hart

Palm Tree Group created by : many people.

Palm Like Tree created by : Ryclen.

Palm trees created by : Mark of Falworth.

A MASA PALM created by : Masa of Kaliphlin

BONSAI TREES

Bonsai by Taz-Maniac, on Flickr

Blossom Tree created by : tikitikitembo

Bonsai Group created by : many people

? Bonsai created by : Toma S

GIANT TREES

House in the Trees created by : ZCerberus

Tree house created by : blufiji

Giant Tree House created by : I Scream Clone

Tree Tower House created by : Legonardo

Cherry Tree with Treehousecreatedby : Cale

Elven Tree House created by : Elander

Endor Trees created by : mutley777

Xmas Tree at St Pancras. created by : Duncan Titmarsh and Children from Edith Neville Primay School in Camden and Copenhagen Primary School in Islington helped put the tree together, along with the Harpenden Explorer Scouts.

GIANT SENTIENT TREES

UCS Ent created by : touthomme

GIANT TREES in miniature.

Living City Tree created by : tbaixinho

Other Miniature Trees

Small Trees in a Landscape created by : Ru Corder

FORESTS

created by : brickplumber

Pine Forest created by : Sava TheAggie

Thanks for these extra links I Scream Clone. Hersbrucker, tedbeard

Thanks to Tazmaniac for moving this topic to the main Forum.

Edited by Venunder

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Whilst it's a good idea to have a tree resource, perhaps you could research up more than two techniques when starting a thread? Maybe even post some tutorial pictures yourself :classic:

The Flickr group, LEGO Arboretum is a one stop shop for cool trees and shrubbery. I will add it to your post.

Cheers

ISC.

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^ Sorry I'm a bit slow gathering my links. Next time I will gather my info before posting a topic.

At some point I will contribute my own method if I discover one that seems worthy.

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I don't really get why this topic is in the GoH Forum. :angry: It would be much better to have it in the LEGO Historic Themes Forum. :thumbup:

I thought the same, as I looked at this thread the first time.

Edited by Hersbrucker

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As usual many people all do the same thing:

LEGO LandScape group on Flickr

LEGO Palm Trees group on Flickr

Brick Bonsai group on Flickr

In addition to the LEGO Arboretum above.

And that was just 30-40 seconds of searching on Flickr.

Hopefully this thread can help bring sanity but might I suggest it is in the wrong place. Buried in Eurobricks Forums > Themes > LEGO Historic Themes > Guilds of Historica rather than something a little more general may not be the best place for it unless you are only interested in trees built for the GoH project.

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This looks promising but should probably not be guild specific...I'll move it to the main forum.

And add this:

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Bonsai by Taz-Maniac, on Flickr

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well... I;ve used up a half of hour writing this post for thread: "A guide to tree building", but now it seems it disapeared... I will post it here, and if it was moved, this post could be to, I suppose... if not, there are few links to the "building how to" :)

here's an article from Antony Sava: link, named: "Creating trees and foliage"

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here's an instruction from Monteur: link, named: "Trees"

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and, talking about articles that could help you while building, here you can find all of these:

Buildings

- Advanced Tudor Style Instructions by Lenny Hoffman

- Model Castle Openings by Lenny Hoffman

- Avoiding the "Big Gray Wall" Syndrome by Bruce N H

- Castle Wall Offsets by Ben E.

- Medieval interiors by ? - pdf file

- Stained glass windows by Bruce N H

- Stained glass - using slopes by Jim

- Towers 101 by Eggy (Eggplant Wizard) - on MOCpages

- Round Tower Techniques by John Boozer (jediknight219) - on MOCpages

- Curved Amphitheater's Walls by Krazy Kastle Krak Guy (K3G) - on MOCpages

Environment

- Creating trees and foliage, not just for deities any more by Anthony Sava

- Building a landscape by DNL and SlyOwl

- Building a landscape - Grass-scaping by SlyOwl

- Waves by Bruce N H

- Waterfalls 101 by Eggy (Eggplant Wizard) - on MOCpages

- Rocks 101 by Eggy (Eggplant Wizard) - on MOCpages

- Palm tree by Eggy (Eggplant Wizard) - on MOCpages

- Trees by Monteur - on Brickshelf

Creatures

- Brick Built Beasts 1 - Mundane animals by Bruce N. H.

- Brick Built Beasts 2 - Fantastic animals by Bruce N. H.

- Custom Centaurs by Jim Darlack

Etc.

- Fire Strands by Forestboy

- Making Medieval Instruments by Nathan Wells

- Microscale castle building techniques by Ed Kohl - pdf file

:)

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I do like this big tree design by Paultox a lot. It has shamefully few votes in Cuusoo. There's also

in Youtube.

I liked his tree so much that I have spent all afternoon building one; it is brilliant.

The tree is really well designed; it has great durability for a display.

It is so good that I went to Cuusoo and voted for it. :thumbup:

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Great list of techniques!

Shouldn't this be in the LEGO General Discussion & News forum? Seems to me that it applies to a lot more than just Historic Themes, such as Pirates, Town, etc.

And maybe it should be linked to from the first post of the Advanced Building Techniques thread in that forum. Although that post hasn't been edited in a while.

Ugh, that's the problem with discussion boards -- if it's not stickied, it disappears from view unless someone bumps it.

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@ Jareth if you can get a better shot of your Giant tree I can list it. :thumbup:

Sorry...It's been broken down. To be honest, the top of the tree wasn't that great. I don't own enough branch pieces. Allthough, maybe I could do a brick based crown instead of a branch based one.....hmmm....

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I would like to see more trees with grey trunks so that is shame Jareth.

I would also like to see some more tan coloured round bricks used to help expand the tree designs. :sweet:

Edit: Oops bad spelling.

Edited by Venunder

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I liked his tree so much that I have spent all afternoon building one; it is brilliant.

The tree is really well designed; it has great durability for a display.

It is so good that I went to Cuusoo and voted for it. :thumbup:

Thanks for the support!

I really hope the video also helps others to build my trees!

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I have found a few interesting Trees to add to the first post.

If anyone finds any new Trees please post a link here.

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I built a new tree today. It's an autumn birch!

For all the LEGO purists out there; close your eyes! It has non-LEGO yellow leave parts:

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