Fruit Trees 8 cm (4 pcs)

HEKI fruit trees 8 cm, 4 pieces

Four finished model trees from the German maker HEKI eight centimeters tall. Compared with forest trees, fruit trees have a shorter trunk and a wider, lower-set crown, because in orchards they are shaped by pruning. It is precisely this shape that matters on a layout: a fruit tree by a farmstead looks different from a mature beech and, used correctly, it immediately gives away that this is a garden or an orchard and not a wood.

Use

• gardens and orchards by model farmsteads
• lines of trees along field tracks
• yards and front gardens on a rural layout
• completing the low greenery between taller trees
• low tree greenery between houses and farm buildings

How to work with the small trees

The trees are stuck into a pre-drilled hole or glued by the foot of the trunk. In an orchard plant them in rows and at roughly equal intervals, because it is precisely regularity that sets an orchard apart from freely grown growth, whereas with a freely standing tree you should leave regularity alone. Add grass or low growth under the crown. Spread a crown that is flattened after unpacking out carefully with your fingers.

Who the set is for

For builders of rural layouts and dioramas and for modelers who fine-tune the surroundings of buildings. Smaller fruit trees also suit slopes and terraces, where a mature deciduous tree would come across as too massive and would hide the building behind it. It is a modeling material, not a toy. The manufacturer marks its landscaping goods as unsuitable for children under fifteen.