Leaves & Branches – Diorama Accessories - 1:35 Eduard

[Mike]

Leaves and Branches - Diorama Accessories

1:35 Eduard

Eduard's foliage and fauna sets have been coming out in bunches for a while now, and we have the latest sets here, which deal mostly with small branches from various types of trees and plants.

Oak Leaves Autumn (36218) and Spring (36205)

Each of these sets contain 14 large "sprigs", two medium sized, and six small sections. They are all painted on both sides with shades of green for the Autumn set and a more brown shade for the Spring set. Each leaf is shaded and has delicately printed vein detail on both sides, and the April set have no acorns, while the Autumn set does. The branch sections have a more curved cross-section due to their paint covering, which stops them looking like a flat PE set. Careful arrangement and twisting of the leaves and branches to random angles will make for quite a believable appearance.

Autumn (green)



Spring (brown)

Garden Flowers (36223)

This fret, measuring 14cm x 8cm contains many different types of garden variety flowers, the names of most of which escape me, mainly because I'm not a gardener. Some of the flower types require a little bit of assembly to improve their 3D look, namely the tulips, gladioli (?) and daffodil, but there are a couple more that need petal manipulation to finish them off, and I have no clue as to what they are. With careful bending of the petals and leaves they should look quite realistic in the right surroundings.

Palm Leaves - Coconut (36210), Desert Fan Palm (36206), Kentia Palm (36207)

Each set contains pre-painted frets of palm leaves, with 9 leaves on the Coconut set spread over two large frets, 10 leaves on the Desert Fan Palm on one fret, and 6 leaves of the Kentia Palm on two large frets.

Each set is given its official botanical name, which confuses simpletons like myself. Here is a quick run-down of their official and common names:

Cocos Nuicfera - Coconut Palm present in most tropical areas.





Washington Filifera - Desert Fan Palm, cotton palm, Arizona/California fan palm native to the West coast of the US.





Howea Belmoreana - Kentia Palm, common in Austrailia.

Grapevine (36204)

This fret contains seven 13.3cm lengths of grapevine, with finely etched leaves and grape clusters, which are of the green "white wine" type and are folded into bunches from three sections so that they look a little more three-dimensional. The instructions recommend curling the leaves over by using a small ball-bearing on a soft surface, which could be quite time consuming due to the myriad of leaves present. Careful twisting and bending will result in some pretty realistic looking vines.

Review sample courtesy of

[Paul A H]

This fret, measuring 14cm x 8cm contains many different types of garden variety flowers, the names of most of which escape me, mainly because I'm not a gardener. Some of the flower types require a little bit of assembly to improve their 3D look, namely the tulips, gladioli (?) and daffodil, but there are a couple more that need petal manipulation to finish them off, and I have no clue as to what they are.

3 out of 10 for botany Mike! They do look good though - hope they scale them down

[Mike]

I think the scaling down process has already begun... I've noticed that some of the 1:72 sets you've been reviewing are the same as I've reviewed, so I imagine that most sets will make it to "your" scale