Making a great palm tree isn’t as hard as it seems, follow along in this easy tutorial and make your own fantastic looking palm trees. No special tools required just a lot of time and patience!

Whether you’re making a palm tree for your model railroad, war gaming terrain, architectural landscape or just for your own diorama, making some fantastic looking palm trees will certainly deliver a sense of warmth and tropical climate to you model not to mention just look amazing!

Below is a list of materials used to build the palm tree

*Materials*

28 Gauge Florists Wire

2.7mm Diameter Insulated Electrical Wire

Air Drying Modelling Clay

Gesso Acrylic Paste

A4 Printer Paper (and a computer & printer to print the leaf design)

A Marker Pen

Jute Twine

Spray Adhesive

CA Glue (Super Glue)

Helmar Super Tac Glue

Wide Masking Tape

*Vallejo Paint*

Golden Olive

Burnt Umber

White

Light Mud

Buff

*Tools*

Camera (phone is good), Computer and Printer

Side Cutters

Tweezers

Needle

Various Paint Brushes

Scissors

Sharp Hobby Knife (I use a number 2 blade)

Music:

Rhodesia by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/

Camera and Equipment:

Panasonic G85

12 - 60mm Panasonic Kit Lens

45 - 150mm Olympus Lens

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