IAN HUNTER: So, what I'm using is called flocking.
It's a, it's what they use on
furry animals to give them fur,
or fake plants to give them a little bit of foliage.
It's rayon fibers that are cut and
in different colors and mixed together.
So I've got a kind of a nice olive green here.
Again, Stats and
places like that carry it.
You can look it up, actually look up flock.
F-L-O-C-K
in the phone book,
you find places to get it.
You can buy it by the pound.
A pound is about the size of a bag of,
you know a big, jumbo sized bag of Doritos,
so it goes pretty far.
And what we're going to do,
is we're going to spray glue the tree
and sprinkle some of this on there.
Now, what I've got here,
which goes back quite a ways -
because it says Hunter Gratzner on it -
ah, this is a flocking gun.
It's really simple.
Air line goes in here,
this looks exactly like a water hose.
And then when you blow air through it,
this reservoir has got some of the flocking in it,
right there.
So, let me take our flocking gun,
sprinkle in a little bit of flock.
Again, this is like a production gun,
if you're doing lots and lots of
stuffed animals or trees,
you'd want to use one of these.
Before we use the flocking gun,
because most of the time you can just do this with a sifter.
We're just going to take a regular sifter here
and we're going to put some flock in it.
Like that. And we're gonna sift it over the tree.
Alright, so take your spray glue
and spray from the top down.
You don't want to spray directly this way,
so if you can,
we can do that over,
away from our lense here.
Spray down.
Heavy.
Then just take our flock,
sprinkle it.
Now we're putting on a nice,
fine layer of
foliage.
It gives us our, gives our tree a nice green color.
A little more spray glue on there.
Don't want to get glue all over that.
Flocking it.
A little more glue.
And uh,
so you just keep building it up, but
essentially that's what it takes,
is uh, build a branch structure,
add the smaller, finer jip
and then on top of that,
spray the flocking and that gives you the finer leaves.
I'm pulling off these strands of hot glue
that are forming these cobwebs.
But, um, essentially that's all it takes to build a tree.
And then we would just take this out.
Pop. And uh,
and put that into our set.
Drill a hole and drop it in there.
So that's a deciduous tree.
And, this branch got a little loose.
There we go.
One deciduous tree down,
about 400 to go.