Palm frond toturial

Hey, he made it!

Looks great, thanks! Those really turn out well.

~1st class tut. on the palm  ( fronds ) Stern. Good job with the nice clear, logical photos. Your finished items look great too, I just want to ask, the unknown leaves, are they dry already? Or fresh? Are you using a preservative on them? Wonder how they hold up over time?         Just about the same time, I noticed my Buddy Rick over on the MM Forum (in Dio's)  is working on a really stunning PTO vignette you might like, his figures look really cool, but I noticed he had some fallen palm fronds too, so I asked him for a little tut on his:

His are made from 2 squares of brown paper bag, glued together with a small wire inside for the stem! painted I think they look great, especially if one can't find that 'unknown' leaf.

It's a WIP, alot going on on a small base, but well worth taking a look at. His palm tut. is crude but effective.

The thread starts here --------->     http://www.militarymodelling.com/forums/postings.asp?th=31337&p=1

Thanks INDY, I have corrected the mispelled fronds....(in my best Dr. Bones McCoy voice) Dammit Jim, i'm a modeler not a english professor! I have worked with real leaves before, after a light mist of dullcoat they seem to last a long time...Another EDIT to the toot: Any leaf bigger than the pattern will do...do not need the exact leaf..or ,for that matter you can use anything you want, tissue papper would work! I like the leaves because they are real...and no surprise, they look real...It is better to do them fresh...mine are a few days old, but in a dank basement...they stayed soft for the most part

Thanks all you guys for looking, I think the toot is a good foundation....I give everyone the credit of having good common sense and to use whatever you can get out of this toot...It's just the way I did it...NOT the best, fastest, most realistic, time proven, or easiest...I am surley not the authority...

~ Sterno ~ Dullcoat huh? sounds easy enough. I guess you'd be right, any leaf that looks like those you've shown outa work---what we need is some arborist to chime in and tell us what kind they are so we know what to ask for. Your palms look so darn cool, I'm sure another kind of leaf might be a disapointment---although, like I said, Rick got nearly as good  results with a paper bag!, Don't you think?

~ C.J. ~ satin? really? wow. I've heard of silk, for 1/1 scale fake flowers ( maybe stiffined up w/ some w.glue & water it might work,         it is really thin.... )           ..it was somewhere on this forum, eh?

~SternO ~ Did you go check out Rick's WIP ? What did you think?I was just looking through his Albums on MM(http://www.militarymodelling.com/albums/member_albums.asp?c=40918 ) Man~! you guys got a lot in common . You should check out his Siapan Dio

I'm sure you recognize the prone Grunt ( & check out the Flamethrower!)

Just thought it might be of interest....... He mostly does action scenes......Indy

Axel, anytime..just another way of making em...hope you can get some use out of it.

INDY, I did...good stuff! he's a little outa my league though...his figures are incredible! I did check out the papper bag trick for the fronds...more good stuff, Thanks for sharing!