Tree design by Tony Sava

[Bruce N H]

Hi all,

CC co-founder Tony Sava may be more into making awesome trains these days, but his stuff can still translate into castle building. I'm not sure when you'll be in a LEGO store very soon, but when you do, if you can fill up a pick-a-brick cup with plant stems and Travis bricks you can make a forest of his [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/savatheaggie/4 ... ateposted/]Travis trees[/url]. This design uses the [url=https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalog ... =24855#T=C]newer style stems with a pin at the bottom[/url] rather than the [url=https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalog ... P=3741#T=C]older style stems[/url]. You could do this with the older stems, but that would be much more fragile.

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[mrcp6d]

Thanks Bruce. The new pieces also look better than the old ones for this technique.

[ffilz]

Hmm, nice trees, how many say 3" tall trees per pick a brick cup?

[Purple Wolf]

Dang those are really nice trees. I now now what I'm going to be picking up at some point.

There has been so many different attempts at pine/spruce tree and many have been good but there may be the best yet.

Purple Wolf

[Bruce N H]

Hmm, nice trees, how many say 3" tall trees per pick a brick cup?

I've got no idea how many of those you could pack in a cup. Looking at that 20-travis-brick-tall tree Tony shows I think it has about 281 of those stems. Bricklink sellers in the US with large quantities of those range from 4 to 6 cents, which would range between $11 and $17 - per tree. So that forest he has would run quite a bit of money unless you could buy in bulk.

When I do get to a LEGO store again, if they do have these on the PAB wall, I'm going to fill up a couple of cups. Those pieces are flexible, so you could probably smash them together.

Bruce

[ffilz]

Hmm, nice trees, how many say 3" tall trees per pick a brick cup?

I've got no idea how many of those you could pack in a cup. Looking at that 20-travis-brick-tall tree Tony shows I think it has about 281 of those stems. Bricklink sellers in the US with large quantities of those range from 4 to 6 cents, which would range between $11 and $17 - per tree. So that forest he has would run quite a bit of money unless you could buy in bulk.

When I do get to a LEGO store again, if they do have these on the PAB wall, I'm going to fill up a couple of cups. Those pieces are flexible, so you could probably smash them together.

Bruce

It certainly is promising. I wouldn't be surprised if you can get at least a couple trees worth into a big cup, maybe even 3-4. That would make them reasonably economical. Another question would be how fragile they are. I like my trees that use straws and leaf elements since you can just toss them in a bucket. These trees are probably more fragile than that, but may survive several conventions of putting them in and out with the worst that they actually become a bit more realistic as a few stems fall off each time in random places.