Big Lots - cheap trees!

[kitenerd]

I am honored to have earned the acclaim of so many furry friends

i will endeavor to be worthy

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[Rabbit Burner]

hey - look at me - i am tech savvy

kitenerd, Minotaur Lord, Technomage, Dialler of Telephones, flyer of Kites, rocker of trousers and nerd.

We Salute you!

[zenako]

Yup, every spring I make a pass thru the local craft shops (AC Moore, Micheals, etc.) and check for clearance items that sometimes are items like these. If nothing else those clearance buys provide cheap fodder for experiments in making stuff. Just like the post someone made last year about the Tiki hut tops that are an almost perfect fit for 4" tower builds. Sometimes you just got to look beyond the local hobby store for some goodies. (Clearance items for fish tanks can have some useful stuff as well!).

[kitenerd]

i tried flaking it off - figuring it was some type of flocking, but it is pretty stuck on

just soaked it in a coffee cup and then put dishwashing liquid on it and brushed it a bit

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viola - summer time trees!

guess i will pick up some more - these would look awesome in city builder as manicured garden

[Papa_Stevie]

wish they had them without snow

Sometimes its just a plaster on them and it can be washed off for snow-free trees

[William]

This bad boy still works:

Of course it does, you could throw an old phone against a cinder-block wall and they still worked.

[kitenerd]

hey - i learned something new!

I am old enough to remember when phones where actually used to make calls - and no one needed an instruction book that was 300 pages long to know how to use one

This bad boy still works:

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[astolat]

i seem to have an orientation problem with images i email myself from my phone

any smart people know how to get around this?

this is a test - i opened it renamed and resaved - lets see if that works

FWIW, the issue is that whenever you take iphone photos with the camera app oriented wrong, it helpfully hides this from you by saving orientation info in the EXIF data and displaying it based on that data. Any program that doesn't read the EXIF data will display it wrong.

If you open the file in pretty much any image editing program that displays it correctly and just re-save it (if you need to change it somehow to get it to save, you can rotate it around 360), it'll keep the correct orientation. Preview works on Mac.

[dice4hire]

I am in awe.

Nice trees, and they look pretty realistic. I wonder how all the existing trees will look next to the new DF trees.

[kitenerd]

hey - look at me - i am tech savvy