An introduction and my enclosure build.

[orphan]

This would be a very painstaking process, but you could get PVC tubing, and little by little attach ripped apart Styrofoam to the pipe for the texture. Then add paint for color. Then seal. There's some awesome videos on Youtube that deal with making environments with styrofoam, so all you'd have to do is adapt it to a PVC pipe.

Maybe someone else will give ya less laborious work to make branches!

That doesn't sound too labor intensive. I come from a custom car background so nothing is too labor intensive as long as the end result is right.

This is the dude's page that makes awesome styrofoam environments. If you use the same technique but instead do in onto a PVC pipe, that may work.

http://www.youtube.com/user/LizardLandscapes

Thanks very much for that link. Doing it in pvc for strength and using the styrofoam for texture sounds like the perfect solution.