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NOCH: Pine Tree
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Posted: Sunday, December 16, 2018 - 05:08 PM UTC


PINE TREE 15CM HIGH is a PROFI tree by NOCH. It offers a lot of potential for modelers of most scales.

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Posted: Sunday, December 16, 2018 - 09:28 PM UTC
That tree looks really good

About the sizes of model trees:
15 cm high.
Scaling gives the following 1:1 size pines:
1:87 = 13 meter (almost a third of the full size for that species)
1:72 = 10,8 meter (a little over a quarter)
1:48 = 7.2 meter
1:35 = 5.25 meter (twize the height of my christmas tree).

A full grown pine in Sweden can reach 40 meters. Fricking difficult to make room for one of those in a 1/35 diorama.
In 1/87 it would still be over 45 cm (1.5 feet ...)
On the other hand, a forest contains trees of many different sizes and if it is a fairly recent plantation there would be lots of trees of this size. A 5 meter pine would be somewhere around 15 years old.
A tree growing in very infertile soil will grow a lot slower.




/ Robin
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Posted: Sunday, December 16, 2018 - 10:25 PM UTC
For years I have been wanting to do a dio of a Blitz radio van with the telescoping antenna fully extended. Then park the truck in a stand of full height, adult pine trees like those in your photo.

Just say'n.

p.s. Thanks Robin for the helpful height conversion chart! I was just at the point of asking myself those very questions, then scrolled down to find they had already been answered for me!
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Posted: Monday, December 17, 2018 - 12:54 AM UTC
Some years ago I was a member of a model railroad club, I didn't own any rolling stock, I was only in it for the landscape and layout building.
Anyhow, making forests was a large part of the landscape work and that gave me reason to consider the issue with height of trees and I realised that ALL available trees were severely undersized if they were to represent full grown trees, not talking redwoods or anything large, just plane Jane Swedish pine and fir, birches also grow taller than H0-scale layout bushes.
Nature has a tendency of becoming very large ....
Consider the trunk diameter of a large pine, 35 cm is sort of a medium size tree, the big ones are thicker, 35 cm would be a whole cm in 1/35th, a wooden pencil is 0.7 mm ....
The ones hitting 40 m will be thicker, over 2 feet diameter.
My sister had two big ones taken down in her backyard and a local craftsman made chairs from the bottom ends.


Image from the internet, the ones my sister have look a lot better. Ask google about stockstol.
2 feet in 1/35th is 1.7 cm (11/16 of an inch) ....

/ Robin
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