The '95' Winter Tree

Post by **SavaTheAggie** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:56 am

With the success of my 88 Tree and my 80+ Conifer, my eyes turned to the rare white 'large' leaves.

So tonight, after much ado in aquiring them, I present my '95' Winter Tree:

All in all it uses 31 green large leaves and 64 white large leaves. I'm rather please that, though I didn't use any small leaves, I was still able to get a conifer-like shape with the '95' tree.

If you'd like to know why I used green to begin with, I did it for two reasons. One, real trees don't get totally covered with snow, their core is usually left bare as snow accumulates on the outer branches. And two, I added the bright green to save on white leaves, as I only have so many and I'd like to build as many snow trees as possible. I may even go as far as to vary the amount of white on each winter tree just to stretch the 'snow' as far as I can.

However, my wife would rather I used all white, at least for now, so who knows where my building will take me...

--Tony

wunztwice · Post by **wunztwice** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:03 am

I like it! [even with the green].

I actually bought something like 25 of the white leaves to make a simelar tree, but with lack of time before heading home and the fact that until a few days, I am still 3 hours away from my LEGO collection...

footsteps · Post by **footsteps** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 3:14 pm

They come in white????!!!!!

I never knew!

Alan

PS As always, a most excellent tree, Tony. You are an artist.

kelderic · Post by **kelderic** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:56 pm

I think the green looks good and adds realism to the tree. Great job!

Kelderic

DARKspawn · Post by **DARKspawn** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:27 pm

The green adds more depth. Very pretty

Though I can understand your wife's viewpoint - most ornamental trees of that type are white through & through

Post by **SavaTheAggie** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:47 pm

I've since redesigned my tree slightly, changing the balance to 27 green and 68 white leaves. Christina likes it much better than before. I also built and all-white tree, and it was all white, but not great. I prefer the green mixed in.

footsteps wrote:They come in white????!!!!!

I never knew!

Alan

PS As always, a most excellent tree, Tony. You are an artist.

Not in any set, but getting mine involved a one eyed man in Istanbul and shady dealings with 'Jimmy the Tooth'.

I don't really think of myself as any sort of artist, but thank you.

--Tony

Post by **Athos** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 2:22 am

SavaTheAggie wrote:
footsteps wrote:They come in white????!!!!!

I never knew!

Alan

PS As always, a most excellent tree, Tony. You are an artist.
Not in any set, but getting mine involved a one eyed man in Istanbul and shady dealings with 'Jimmy the Tooth'.

Not to disparage Jimmy, he's got some great merchandise, but I thought they came in a Belville set...

Steve

Post by **JoshWedin** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 2:47 am

Athos wrote:Not to disparage Jimmy, he's got some great merchandise, but I thought they came in a Belville set...

Steve, you are correct. I buy from Jimmy on ocassion too, but Lego sells these in 7577 Winter Wonder Palace. They are hard to see, but they are attached to the towers and are holding the blue shiny "icicles".

So, Tony, if Jimmy told you they were a non-production pieces, he lied. Want I should break his thumbs?

Josh

Edit: Here's the Bricklink inventory if anyone wants to see for themselves. The set comes with three of the white leaves.

Post by **SavaTheAggie** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 8:14 am

Jimmy never told me they weren't in a set, I just never did the proper research. I shall stand corrected. Jimmy did good by me, for sure, though. You'd think I'd have broke the bank, but...

--Tony

Post by **SavaTheAggie** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:47 pm

To all those interested, I've finally put up a set of semi-instructions if you want to build your own '95' tree, which doesn't have to be white, it works well on all green, too.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/savatheaggie/

--Tony

RichardAM · Post by **RichardAM** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:02 pm

SavaTheAggie wrote:To all those interested, I've finally put up a set of semi-instructions if you want to build your own '95' tree, which doesn't have to be white, it works well on all green, too.

Very nice- I picked up quite a lot of them recently for something but never got round to actually using them.

I don't think I have enough of them (maybe green can help boost it 80%

) but I am wanting to try this out. Thanks again.

Traveler · Post by **Traveler** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 1:22 am

I am really jealous of your collection, Anthony. Just so you know.

I might be able to make one of those trees in green, but those white guys are expensive.

jedimasterwagner · Post by **jedimasterwagner** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:37 pm

Hi Sava,
by chance could you share the .dat files of your trees? it's hard to do a good tree in mlcad (it gets so complicated!), and yours look really nice. They would make for some great background greenery on a train scene I'm putting together. I would surely give you credit if I include one of your trees in anything I put on flickr. and of course, if you're not into sharing .dat's of your mocs, that's ok too.

thanks,
jedimasterwagner

jedimasterwagner · Post by **jedimasterwagner** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:39 pm

strange, when I type "d a t" it comes out as "that". i'm asking for the d a t files. now that post should make sense.

Post by **Formendacil** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:48 pm

jedimasterwagner wrote:strange, when I type "d a t" it comes out as "that". i'm asking for the d a t files. now that post should make sense.

"Dat" would one of the quirky spelling filters kicking in. I believe there's a couple bad-spelling tweakers in there with the curse-word filter.

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