"Homemade Palm Trees, Part II: The Painting" Topic

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

Outstanding!

Doug

That's great! Thanks for sharing.

very well done, very inspirational
thank you!

Ditto, I'm going to give this a try

I have tried this method (I got to see the prototypes in person)and it works very well. Very accurate and nice looking. It does help that I had green wire and dark brown pipe cleaners that made the process even easier. There is also a green floral tape that can save the first painting step. I got some of this material in a Tamiya dinosaur kit that included a large fern kit as part of the diorama. I used the labels for this, as I have lots of them.

Looks good and easy. Great to see a step by step. Many, many thanks!

Very well done. Thanks for sharing your technique.

Bravo. And with pink pipe cleaners no less!

At last an answer to my palm tree problem thankyou. I've wanted affordable ones since a very long time.

Derval, that is wonderful, thanks for showing this.
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Tim

WOW That is great idea, Just as I was looking to make some Desert and Jungle scenery…

I have used a similar but even simpler idea.

Instead of the labels, Rose petals that you get from the hobby store, like Hobby Lobby or Michaels. They are green and come with wires. Cut for fronds as described in the article.

I secure 6-8 or these around a length of green floral wire with brown pipe cleaners, as described. Dry brush the pipe cleaner with light grey. Then I usually wrap another pipe cleaner around under the top.

Done.

These are great for date palms in 25-28 mm scale. I secure the bottom of the floral wire to large washers (for weight) and texture them as bases.

Great suggestion Askari, will try to look for those..

Thanks for sharing, palm tree Paradise, here I come.

Hovels makes some nice palm trees. The pictures they show don't do them justice, they are really quite nice and come in three sizes. The price isn't cheap but I didn't need all that many.

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I read your article, just found it last week actually, and produced a few trees following your process.
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Thanks very much for taking the time to share your methods.

I can see this in 15 mm. How would this work in 6 mm or 3 mm settings?

What materials changes might be needed?

Never considered anything that small?

I guess in that scale the trunk would be a single wire (maybe wrapped in string soaked in super glue).. then some lose string for palm fronds?

Fantastic and a scratch builder's dream article! Thanks for this. The method couldn't be simpler and none of the materials are exotic or hard to acquire. When I get back to my Pulp Egyptian game, there's going to be a bunch of these on the table!