How To Make Palm Trees For Your Miniatures & Terrain Scenery

[@hollyingraham3980]

Aloha from Hawaii! 4 out of 5 stars on this, best palm trees I've seen made. As usual, your how-to is crystal clear. Extra points for doing the coconuts as they grow, not as found in the market. Like most nuts, they have a soft outer hull that we take off with a circular saw. Think of the hulls of walnuts or butternuts, friends. But palms don't have serrated leaves. They have fronds, with a hard midrib. Try running the wire down the full length of the frond shape. Then cut it like a fringe all the way to the midrib. Dip the plastic (great choice of material) into nearly boiling water to shape them. Also, your reference showed neatly manicured palms, suitable for outside a hotel. In the wild, the older leaves are always lower down and die first. They are dried brown, limp, and narrow, and just hang there until a wind knocks them off. Their bases left behind form the next ring of growth for the "trunk," properly called the mast. I used to work in a place where the lounge table and chairs were under coconut palms. They whistle down any time, day or night, all year long. It was a hardhat zone! So don't forget to add a few to the ground litter. After a few months, they will shrink and turn brown, but still not wrinkled. Going to go look for that project.

[@sirarlissfeathergill6157]

11:55 - Infallible logic! Great sense of humour, and thanks for another great video with stunning results!

[@subhadeepmaity7152]

Sala

[@terrain-hardy]

Your attention to detail is just fantastic, excellent choice of colors... I just have to make some of this Palm trees ... ;-) Your terrain are marvelous , Brilliant work. Thanks for showing and keep up the good work.

[@Paepercuts]

Thank you very much and good luck on making some palms!

[@AlexBabcock-hw9iz]

Ive watched about 5 or 6 how to make coconut trees/ palm trees and there's parts from each I like best. Think mine will be a hybrid of the different types and processes. Thanks for a great tutorial.

[@Paepercuts]

Nice! Have fun on making some palms i'm sure they'll turn out great

[@justinhealey2408]

Thank You for sharing your technique, I will definitely follow step by step for my 1:35 scale island battle diorama

[@rex758]

Amazing great work. simple, easy and looks great

[@AlexBabcock-hw9iz]

I like watching different modelers as you can mix and match to get what's best for your project or what materials you have. I like your site and also Lukes APS, The Terrain Tutor, and Luke Towan to name a few. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos they are very good.

[@Paepercuts]

Good to hear and thanks!

[@sallyrealey]

Brilliant, just what I wanted for my Christmas Nativity scene!

[@Paepercuts]

Thank you very much, good luck on your X-mas scenery i'm sure it'll look great!

[@spockinfrock]

Me too!!!

[@ChiefLiveGamingWI]

Awesome video I will have to try to make some of these someday! Thanks for the video!

[@Paepercuts]

+Chief Live Gaming Thank you very much! :)

[@Saberrex1]

Most impressive. However, for my palm trees, I'll be using your video on creating the prehistoric jungle diorama's cycads for the palm trees. The cretaceous palmetto Sabilites looks very similar to those and the palms you made here. Plus, it gives me an excuse to go and find tiny pine cones when out on hikes. For the leaves, I'll use plastic fern fronds.

[@PseudoBasser]

din't think I'd like 'em at first, but they turned out very nice! the green coconuts look a little strange, but i wouldn't even know what to suggest, and will be nice to see then along side some minis for scale.. thanx muchly!

[@Paepercuts]

Thanks and you're welcome!

[@TheSargeGaming]

You are really creative, very good idea

[@salmanbaloch2858]

Wow it's so beautiful ❤️ i'd like it awesome

[@mrinalshil5040]

Awesome bro...ur idea is really work or original...bst of luck ur nxt videossss

[@Paepercuts]

Thank you very much!

[@AlgaeTheOriginal]

Another great tutorial. These will come in handy for future projects! Thanks for your amazing video series!

[@Paepercuts]

+AlgaeTheOriginal Thank you very much my friend :) I'm glad the video was useful to you!

[@jostscalemodelling9078]

Thank you very much for this excellent video! The working steps are very well explained!

[@Paepercuts]

Thank you and you're very welcome!

[@corleone554]

awesome, this is going to help me with my lizard men army

[@Paepercuts]

+BillyWarren Thanks :) That's a great idea, good luck on your lizards!

[@themaximumriver7621]

just perecft since my desert project on science is there in two days.this is hard but I will try.you are amazing.i always get Ideas from you

[@Paepercuts]

Thanks glad you liked it ;) Good luck on your project you can do it!

[@garyloger9416]

Looking good.

[@bobbybeegan3651]

Thank you. Very informative lesson.

[@Landrew0]

Thank you for sharing your technique.

[@Paepercuts]

Thank you and you're very welcome

[@aishabowens9197]

Wow! I would love to make a couple these palm trees to add to the decor of a Barbie doll dream house, Mediterranean style I'm planning to build.

[@thedarkone6034]

Always enjoy your work 🤘🏻👏🏻 I used alot of your stuff as reference for my jurassic world diorama

[@Paepercuts]

Nice to hear that and cool idea for a dio! Cheers.

[@aaronnoce1143]

Amazing!

[@jaywhite5833]

Another Great Video. Very nice Job

[@Paepercuts]

Thank you! Glad you liked it ;)

[@xaynecharlson8709]

very neat and nice appreciate this

[@Paepercuts]

Thank you, glad you liked it!

[@xaxuelx7987]

Interesting tutorial... I use velum paper and ink. you can get serrated scissors to make the cuts...or an exacto knife. The air brush is a no no in my world... all of them I have would clog after the first half of the first leaf and I would never get it to work. Never had any success with air brushes... tried many tutorials and troubleshooting... I am just not supposed to use them i guess. The flip side is I'm rather adept at painting and blending with conventional brushes...

[@marielleashleyarolf8528]

awesome plam trees

[@Paepercuts]

Thank you! Glad you liked them ;)

[@jacobhope6164]

Beautiful!

[@dubuyajay9964]

I know you said this can be done in any scale, but I don't know how one would be able to cut the palm leaves in 6mm scale.

[@kristinebaker5477]

Another Amazing video 😉

[@shogun8808]

Using a hair dryer or quick dip in hot water may be an easy way to get a natural leaf bend.

[@Paepercuts]

Great tip thank you

[@ZachOfClubs]

I was thinking the same thing. Good tip!

[@IRMAOCUSTOMMODELS]

Absolutely Awesome!!!

[@Paepercuts]

Thanks, glad you liked it!

[@TwiceTurn]

Awesome video man!

[@Paepercuts]

+TwiceTurn Thank you very much! :)

[@markbrown8154]

Absolutely fantastically Awesome. I must give this a go. Thankyou.

[@Paepercuts]

Thanks and you're welcome :) Good luck on making some palms!

[@venkataramana6806]

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[@babyyviooo]

how much time did it took you to build five palm trees

[@Paepercuts]

Hi, hard to say because i've made them at the same time i did my desert bases. But i think i did around an hour per tree working time spread over 2 days because of drying time. Cheers ;)

[@pamarsandhya5963]

can we do grass with coriander

[@Paepercuts]

Hi, yes that could work if you make it into a fine powder. I use it sometimes as moss or fine grass

[@dibackdraft]

Hey Pepercuts! Great video! Question: Are they pencil shavings or fake dead leaves? The Desert base video says to check this one out for the how to on the pencil shavings.

[@Paepercuts]

Thanks! I've used pencil shavings (around 07.00) and colored them in some brown ink. You could use many materials for this step but the shavings dry pretty solid when glued.

[@squeezable]

So awesome

[@paintalist4391]

Do you come up with this ideas by yourself? Brilliant work! (again)

[@Paepercuts]

+Paintalist Thank you very much! Yea it's basicly just me and perhaps a glass of whiskey or two to come up with these ideas. Though i'm sure someone else around the world would probably have done it before of course. Just not that i'm aware of :) Take cares

[@chongjorr3232]

Great!!!

[@Paepercuts]

Thank you

[@robertovelarde_staff-marti9696]

How would you make this life size for stage? It's very good.

[@Diceslice]

Very nice tutorial, but I could only follow along until 5:25... :(

[@Paepercuts]

Thanks! No free sanding stick hmm? You could use a piece of fine sandpaper too ;)

[@wr787]

whats the song at 9:50?

[@thorstenpotsch8009]

Super,gut gemachtes Video.Die Palmen sind der Hammer.mfg

[@Paepercuts]

Danke sehr! I'm glad you liked it, Cheers :)

[@PoshzyJM]

i like palm tree

[@Paepercuts]

Thank you glad you liked them ;)

[@magikdust2095]

The palm trees look okay, but not your most realistic looking trees... i actually saw you use a type of fern in a different video, and it would make much more realistic looking palm trees, if you used them for the green part of the trees... it was one of your dinosaur videos... the one that's in the desert, with the triceratops... anyway, still a great video though... 👍

[@masterdeeable1]

Cute and look cartoonish, sort of look like marijuana leafs.

[@alistairbain6149]

“ ... plunder your girlfriend’s makeup bag ... “ ⚠️ WARNING At your own risk! ⚠️

[@melaniebishop6005]

Waaaaay too much work. Too many ingredients.