Model palm trees - Let's see yours

We'd like to see any palm trees YOU might have on your layout!

Boy c.sam -- I haven't a one. 

I'm surprised that you don't Lee with your connection to the West and the trains from out there!  I would love to model one of the large passenger stations with towering palms and a shiny Warbonnett or three sitting at the gate rarin' to go...

Sam

You know I left them all in Florida when I came back to TN. Except the one palm tree that Nancy makes me bring back and forth every winter from the porch to inside the house. It's getting so heavy it a real PITA. If I could get away with it I would bring it to you guys at your next meet.

Larry

These are the best I can come up with.

Hello c.sam,

That is a nice diorama.

I found some nice O scale palm trees several years ago.

I unfortunately don't remember the name of the supplier but they were in California as I recall.

I think they used turkey feathers to make the fronds.

I have been very happy with them although the dates they produced are really small. 

TJ

here's one method of making palms...these are more toy like than realistic...but the technique could be refined for a more scale look...

http://www.bigindoortrains.com...m_tree/palmtrees.htm

howard...

I have some in a box.....yet to build them.....

But I do take photos if I ever change from modeling WV to So Cal.....

I would like some for my desert stretch, but this is high desert, and too far north

for saguaro, much less palm trees.

Tonkanut:  Maybe those are coconut palms?  (but then you'd have to worry about

the nuts falling and denting the hood of the 1/43rd Packard)

TJ

That one reminds me of a Florida Cabbage Palm. They make (whats called there) some very good swamp cabbage.

Larry

Sam,

I came across this website for these JTT trees a few years ago & I saved the site as a bookmark. Search for Palm in the Search box in the upper left corner. They have a generic palm & Phoenix Palm trees in different heights from 1” to 9” from O-Scale to Z-Scale. Their palm trees seem pricier than the listings from Chinese sellers on E-Bay. I have not bought their trees yet but I plan to buy them when I get to building a permanent layout.

Dave,

Is your photo of the Fullerton train station in CA? I came across many similar photos when I was searching ideas for using palm trees a few years ago.

These are just my opinion,

Thanks,

Naveen Rajan

Yes....Fullerton is my station of choice when I travel to Southern California.  I just returned from my most recent trip Thursday.

Here are some pretty nice ones

So... These aren't nearly as nice as the palm trees above, but they aren't too bad if you need a lot of palm trees on the cheap and easy.  These are plastic ones from China, painted for some more realism, cut/glued to varying heights, and with bits of palm leaf added to give some scruff.  So not super great, but passable.  We have around 50-60 of them.

-Dustin

Shoot, maybe these are the reasons I couldn't find the dates.

Thanks for the heads up guys!

TJ

Inspired by the great palm trees others have done, I took a stab at improving the ones on our train table.  I overlaid some brown sections of feather below the "live" palm leaves, against the trunk, in an attempt to give them some more realistic scruff.  Here's the test grouping, just completed:

IMO, it's a definite improvement. 

-Dustin