Larch 17 cm, 3 pcs

What you will find in the box

The package from the Heki company holds three trees 17 cm tall. They are supplied finished, so assembling an armature and applying foliage are done away with. Three pieces are enough for a small group by a road, for the corner of a scene or for filling out a stand already under construction.

What tree this is

The subject is the larch, the one common conifer that drops its needles for the winter. It has a slender crown and sparsely set branches, and in a stand it lets more light down to the ground than a spruce, so undergrowth grows beneath it. A height of 17 cm corresponds in 1:35 scale to a tree just under 6 m tall, in 1:72 scale to roughly 12 m and in 1:87 scale to close to 15 m. In the 1:35 kit scale, then, this is a younger tree not yet fully grown.

Placing it in the scene

Lay a group of three trees out irregularly and turn them different ways; a repeated view of the same outline gives away that these are three pieces from one package. If you combine them with taller trees, the stand gains a scale of heights and the scene gains depth. Seat the tree in a drilled hole and cover the joint at ground level with static grass or leaves. At the edge of a wood leave the trees sparser and fill them out with low bushes; inside the stand, on the contrary, move them closer together.

Who they are for

They suit dioramas with equipment and figures and the model railroad. Before seating them, look the trees over against the light and keep the nicest one for the place the eye goes to first. The base, the glue and scenic material for undergrowth are not part of the delivery, unless stated otherwise.