palm trees

[Anonymous]

Does anybody know of any plan to make palm trees like in floridamodel in 0 scale?

[Adelie]

See if this guy has anything like what you want. I've acquired a few trees from him and have been pretty happy with his work.

http://stores.ebay.com/Architrees-Scaled-Scenery-Store_O-gauge-Model-RR-Dept-56_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQftidZ2QQtZkm

[jrbarney]

Drpshops,
You may want to consider Hart of the South:
http://www.hartofthesouth.com/
Hope this helps.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543

[egmurphy]

Here are a couple of tips on making palm trees. They're not my tips, I copied these from other posts here and failed to note who actually posted the tip. But since I will need to make some in the not so distant future I copied them to a file. Maybe it's something you can use.

Method #1
Find some suitable feathers. If the budgie is reluctant to invest, try the pet shop or farm or leave some crumbs out for the local pigeons . . .
Trim them to a simple palmfrond shape.
Paint or dye them an appropriate colour.
Use some multicore copper wire as the trunk stem and run a bead of solder along it as a filler. Leave a 1cm unsoldered portion at the top.
Solder a nail into the bottom for a support on your layout.
Spread out some of the single wire strands at the top as bases for the feathers to plug onto.
Leave a spike of a couple of wires out at the top - most palm trees have a spike of new growth there.
Rub some caulking compound along the 'trunk' and smooth it into a bark texture.
Paint it in appropriate colours.
Pu***he feather palm fronds onto the single wire strands with a dab of CA glue and you have a nice little VERY cheap palm tree!

Method #2
I saw an article in MR from July 1996 about making model Palm Trees. It was on a layout that featured a Santa Fe passenger train running along the California coast. What the author used was the twist ties from the produce section at the market. Basically, he cut them into the shape of a palm frond and cut notches along the sides. He then painted them an appropriate shade of green. He took the pieces and twisted them together to form a trunk, then wrapped them with pieces of masking tape. When he finished this, he painted the tape brown to represent the trunk of the tree. The end result looked pretty good and turned out to be far less expensive than buying palm trees. They seemed to be pretty easy to make, too!


My apologies to the original authors for not crediting them. These were in threads not so long ago so you might try using the advance search function (upper right) to find the threads.

Regards

Ed