Colors

That’s an impressively good job of matching the tree and scenery colors to the backdrop colors.  Nice trees too.

Excellent

Very nice work....

Very nice work

Well done

Nice

Great job with the trees

Alright Scott.....let's get the whole story

Are you a professional artist? Maybe a reincarnated old master? That is way beyond the level of mere mortals. 

I'm gobsmacked. Looks like the areas I use to spend time in as a youngster........I can even feel the sun and smell the redwood bark. 

@rick

Tress

Holy Cow Batman,  What a great "SHOT"

Did you see that bird fly by in this photo?  These trees will dress up any scene on my layout!

I will have to read how you made them.

Boudreaux,  B.C.E. north of the Bayou

@Cajon...

That would be Boudreaux! Sorry for the copy and paste, but I've had so many ask in other forums that I wrote up the process. Credit where due, it's really a mashup of two different techniques of Luke Towan with some of what I remember my mom doing on our family layout when I was a kid (paraffin wax ala the old time modelers):

The tops are twisted wire armatures made with 28 gauge floral wire, twisted in the evenings when the wife and I watch TV. The trunks are craft store dowels which I taper slightly on a disk sander and then texture with riffler rasps. I drill holes top and bottom of the trunk and hot glue the armature into the top hole and a finish nail in the bottom. I twist individual branches and drill and hot glue them down the trunk . I then clip branches until I'm happy with the shape. I melt paraffin wax and dip the armature in and then use a small brush to cover most of the twisted wire. I stick the tree in Styrofoam and apply paraffin to build up the base of the tree. After the wax has hardened, I remove the tree from the foam and carve the wax at the base and then texture with a wire brush. Coat with Krylon dead flat camo brown paint and the drybrush with three craft paint colors. Once the paint is dry, I brush tacky glue over the tops of the branches and sprinkle 6MM static grass on (for the record I use Woodland Scenics FS622). Once that's dry, I apply 3M 77 adhesive over the branches and sprinkle with 2MM static grass (Serious Play - Farmyard Summer Grass). For a dead tree I'll hit it with light coats of grey and rust primer. The wax remains carvable so you can carve the bottom of the base to fit the terrain. If you know you're installing them on a hillside you can stick them in the foam at an angle so they are created with an angled base.