Wire Palm Tree Tutorial - Model Railroad Scenery

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 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Artist: twinmusicom.org/

Camera and Equipment:
Panasonic G85
12 - 60mm Panasonic Kit Lens
45 - 150mm Olympus Lens