Cool Shade

The shaded side of a wood

This variant holds dark, saturated green foliage with no lightened parts. It matches the way a crown looks when the sun reaches it only at the margins, that is inside continuous growth, on a north slope or in a hollow. The color has a cooler undertone shifted toward blue, which looks believable even under the cold light of a lamp above a workbench.

Contents and size

The package carries 3 pieces, each 7.62 to 10.1 cm tall. In 1:87 that works out at a tree around seven to nine meters, and in 1:35 at just under three to three and a half meters. The lower of those two possibilities moves the tree into the role of undergrowth, while the higher makes it a full tree of the second plane.

Anchoring

The tree is set into the terrain by the pin in the lower part of the trunk. Under the pin there is a removable base, thanks to which the piece stands even without drilling and the arrangement can be tried out first. The trunk can be bent slightly, so the trees can be set up in such a way that the crowns do not touch on the same side.

Composing the growth

Dark crowns work as mass in the background. When you put them behind paler trees, an impression of depth arises, because the eye reads darker areas as farther away. Inside the group it is good to leave irregular gaps and lean a few trees, so that the row does not look like an avenue. The rest of the area under the crowns deserves lower vegetation, otherwise a bare patch is left between the trunks that gives away the fact that the growth ends right behind the first row. A small amount of turf in a shade similar to the foliage above it is enough.