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Hey all,

Check out these beautiful trees by John Neal:

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Quite simply the most life-like trees I've ever seen in LEGO form. Amazingly part-intensive, though.

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Whoa!!! :shock:

Now those, boys and girls, are trees!

Amazing find, Bruce. If I ever have that many leaf pieces, I'm have to build one...
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wowey, those are magnificant! I bet he felt powerfull placing the very last leaf right at the top of the trees. Awesome stuff there.
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WHOA! What a work of art! If only I had a few more leaves... :cry:
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They look very great, The using of the iron in it is very usefull. The only thing negative is, that the trees require a lot green (don`t know how the are called in English) pieces.
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Bruce N H wrote:Quite simply the most life-like trees I've ever seen in LEGO form. Amazingly part-intensive, though.
Yeah, they're VERY life-like. Unfortunately, the more detailed the creation (even if it's simple), the more parts-intensive it is... :(
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You could really lower the leaf-piece requirement if you built the tree with a green-plate and brick core. Sure, it woudln't get rid of but maybe a a 5th or an 8th of your total, but it'd help. Plus it'd be a bit more realistic, as the closer you look to the core of a tree, the less you can see through it.

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I keep hoping that the leaf-parts will show up at LEGO pick-a-brick, but I have yet to find them there. Nice work by my ol' Lugnet debate buddy, John.
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I think the smaller leaf parts were at the PAB.... I'll have to check one of my tubs. I beleaf I picked some up at Disneyworld.
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Recluce wrote:I think the smaller leaf parts were at the PAB.... I'll have to check one of my tubs. I beleaf I picked some up at Disneyworld.
Let me amplify my statement: at the LEGO Pick-a-Brick at Downtown Disney or the Glendale Galleria in SoCal. Appearing at 2nd rate wanna-be locations like Disney World don't count. :wink:
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Those trees are spectacular. LEGO could you please make a foliage pack right away? And do not add various brown trunk pieces, we just need the leaves. Thanks.

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Those trees are quite impressive, very lifelike. I wonder how sturdy they are? Everything I have built with the leaf pieces has been rather unstable...

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JoshWedin wrote:I wonder how sturdy they are? Everything I have built with the leaf pieces has been rather unstable...
That's a good question - I hadn't considered that but they do seem like they may be a bit top-heavy...

Still, I would love to have them packed up and shipped to my house, they look great and are very realistic. I might have enough of those little green pieces to make... one. :-P
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ottoatm wrote:they do seem like they may be a bit top-heavy...

Still, I would love to have them packed up and shipped to my house, they look great and are very realistic. I might have enough of those little green pieces to make... one. :-P
Yeah, probably top-heavy...but very worth it. I think I am going to have to try this out later. Right now most of my leaves are tied up in a forestmen MOC I have for the contest (need to take pics tonight...).

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These trees are simply amazing!

I don't know if anybody's noticed, but many of the inner row leaves are ordinary green, while the outer foliage is bright green. It makes the shadows cast on the inner foliage look even darker! These things are awsome.

I wonder what these would look like on a smaller scale?

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