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Modeling coconut palm trees on your layout
Be good!!!
Excellent idea.
muy buena idea… espero que siempre manden sus tips
muy buena idea… espero que siempre manden sus tips
Very Good Idea. Excellent Job in working out side the box!
Patten your Coconut Palm Trees before its mass produced.
i live in Puerto Rico.this is a tropical island,and this is a nice tip for making palms tree.thanks and keep going.
I live on Oahu and I am always amzed when I see the Big Island railroad. Someday I will have to get down to the big Island to see this railroad first-hand.
Great job.
I like your palms, I LOVE the concept of your RR, and the backfrops remind me of how Oahu looked after an afternoon rain. Excellent modeling with a great premise!
Must try it!
As much as I dislike real palm trees, I do like yours.
I also live in Puerto Rico and I am modeling in On30 to despict the Amarican RR in the Island during the late 40’s. this article will will make it easier to model palm trees. Also I will like to make contact with Melvin Santiago also from P.R.
I like the trees, because we were there for 4 weeks on vacation. Beautiful work.
Needs a video to explain it
Love 'em. I’m doing a southern cal layout so this will help. I imagine it’ll work for the shorter variety palms too.
I am from Philippines, a producer of Copra (dried coconut meat), and I just love the rendition of your coconut tree… My version (chicken rump feather (for the fronds) just don’t give credence as yourrs would be in my tropical Coastal layout… THANKS for showing it!!
By the way, in the Philippines coconut trees are planted a considerable distance apart . . no two trees are near each other…
Again, thanks for showing… Now I’ll visit a novelty in my town and get those artificial (plastic) ferns…
Beatiful work Joseph. I live on Oahu and love your layout. And for James T. Big Island Rail is freelanced. It doesn’t exist. But still go to the Big Island. There is a small railroad museum north of Hilo that has some equipment. Its on all the tourist maps.
I used to live on Oahu and would see the small railroad run in the EVA/Barbers point area. The layout would pass for Hawaii. Great Job.!
We modeled some Coconut Palms when this article first was published in 2008. We accidently discovered a fun addition. As we were gluing the fronds on with the hot glue, some of the glue dropped onto our work surface in small round “globs”. We collected several of the globs and attached them to the trunk up near the fonds and they made perfect coconuts. The trees are still up on a demonstration layout at our local hobby shop.
Great palms, but for me the best is that background.
Lovely to see such work.