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How'd you make your polyfil trees? - Model Railroader Magazine

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Christopher Duran

Updated on April 07, 2026

These are Crepe Myrtle branches with WS green poly covered in fine ground foam. More of a foreground tree.

These are clumps of colored lychin glued onto stained BBQ skeewers covered in fine ground foam. More of a background tree.

Using some of that Notch leaf material instead of ground foam would make either look a lot better. I just used Mod Podge matte medium to glue the poly to the branches. A hot glue gun makes the lychin trees go a lot faster. Used a can of cheap spray glue to get the ground foam to stick. Then sealed them with cheap hair spray. got the WS poly at Hobby Lobby. It's pretty cheap so it's not really worth coloring the white stuff yourself.My 2 cents