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                        looking for birch seeds

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                        PatlaborUnit1
                        • Member since
                          January 2006
                        • From: Baton Rouge, Snake Central
                        looking for birch seeds
                        Posted by PatlaborUnit1 on Monday, October 16, 2006 12:06 PM

                        Hi everyone.

                         

                        I have seen quite a bit about using birch seeds in your groundwork to simulate oak leaves. They look quite good and I would love to get someon my own. However, here in South Louisiana we seem to have no birch trees that I can locate. Tons of white oak and pine, but no birch that I have seen.

                        Any commercial sources for these things?

                         

                        thanks

                         

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                        gburdon
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        • From: Burlington, Ontario Canada
                        Posted by gburdon on Monday, October 16, 2006 12:42 PM

                        PatlaborUnit1

                        Hudson & Allen sell them packaged as "leaves" you should be able to locate them through your local hobby shop.

                        Or check with a local dry flower supplier such as Michael's Craft stores, sometimes they stock Birch Catkins (The real name of these seeds)

                        Failing that I am going on the hunt around my area for them. If I turn up enough I can always throw some in the mail to you. Let me see how the collecting goes and I will get back to you.

                        Cheers;

                        Gregory

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                        Bgrigg
                        • Member since
                          May 2005
                        • From: Left forever
                        Posted by Bgrigg on Monday, October 16, 2006 12:44 PM
                        Ausfwerks FTW!
                        They sell'em by the bag Grunddeckung.

                        So long folks!

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                        SteveM
                        • Member since
                          June 2006
                        • From: AusTx, Live Music Capitol of the World
                        Posted by SteveM on Monday, October 16, 2006 2:58 PM
                        Get a bunch at Ausfwerks while you're paying for shipping- this stuff is great, but the bags are small. Also, if Hudson & Allen products are stocked in your LHS, great. But my H&A order with Model Mecca (VLS) has been backordered all summer long. Managed to get Ivy, everything else is is WAY held.

                        SteveM

                        Steve M.

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                        K-dawg
                        • Member since
                          August 2006
                        • From: Arkansas
                        Posted by K-dawg on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:19 AM
                        Yeah... get the Ausfwerks stuff... I have some and it looks great.  I've spoken to someone who knows the fella that runs Hudson & Allen and so i'm told they're very spotty about getting stuff made as it's a sideline business...

                        Kenneth Childres, Central Arkansas Scale Modelers

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                        zokissima
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
                        Posted by zokissima on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:45 PM

                         Bgrigg wrote:
                        Ausfwerks FTW!
                        They sell'em by the bag Grunddeckung.

                        I concur. The best source by far.

                         

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