This article might be useful to some. I know there are many methods but there is always one that seems to be simple every individual. I personaly thing this is one. I wrote this a very long time ago:

http://hem.passagen.se/tiking/PDF/pinetreearticle.pdf

Hey Charles thanks for the article. This is the method I used many moons ago, albeit with some modifications including heavier foliage and thinner tapers etc. As you say a simple yet effective and cheap method
Brad

Thanks Brad. It's just another method.

Thanks mate, good method, but I think that it needs some improvement (especially tree tops).

A.

Sure, by all means. The ones here in Sweden, at least the ones I saw were pointed at the top. So certainly they are difference in how they look. So, changes can always be made.