andys train layout.....

Garden Railroading
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Hi everyone, i am new to the site.
my name is andy, i am a grading contractor. i have been gearing up to build my layout for quite some time. I am a active menber of the living desert model railroading socieity, in southern ca.

does anybody know how to make realistic looking palm trees? to scale…Gscale?
thanks, andy

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Andy
Howard Sheldon has som palm trees on his layout near his main station.
http://howardsheldon.com/Page_17.html
Richard

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[#welcome] Andy

Galde you made it and have a great stay!
I looked on plam trees on the web and they cost.
So I was going to make some, I still might.
This was my way of going about it <don’t know if it will work but sounds right>

  1. craft store pick up a yard of what looks good to you as a plam leaf
  2. sharp hobby knife
  3. thin flashing to make like a cookie cutter plam leaf which one side would be filed to sharpness.
  4. I was going to use pipe cleaners as trunk, just twist
  5. buy a real nice hot glue gun

So I was going to cut them with plam cutter and make the trunk with brown to light brown pipe cleaners while having several at the top being your base for the leaves <proms - as we call them in landscaping>. Then hot glue them in center floding them out and out but stop because you need your last “top” prom at the top.

Just info, don’t have to go by it [:D]

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Hi Andy! I’m new to this sight too. My names Big Mack and I could need some help on where to start when building a model train.

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Not sure about realistic - Indoor or outdoor is an important matter

anyway - some ideas

http://www.zeitcom.com/majgen/22palmsc.html

http://www.geocities.com/bkempins/ASMMain/PalmTrees.html

http://www.miniaturetree.com/viewcategory.asp?DirID=79

http://zelmeroz.com/canesig/model/handbook/17_palms.pdf

hope this inspires some ideas

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Hey all, welcome to the forum![#welcome]

The onle way I know of to build realistic palm trees is to go to the local garden center and buy a palm tree. I’m not trying to be funny, but my personal view of Garden railroading is to use real plants and leave the artificial to the indoor scale crowd. It’s been my experience that artificial trees on an outdoor railroad look, well, artificial. That doesn’t mean you won’t be able to build some that are convincing, G railroading means experimenting, try it, if it works out then post the results for us all to enjoy!