01-20-2009, 12:10 PM
cnw1961 Wrote:Dave, beauty lies in the eye of the beholder
Josh, thank you for your encouraging words.
Russ, Tyson, thank you, I really appreciate your help. Wandering with Google’s street view through the streets of the East Rail district, I found all sorts of palm trees (mexican palms, coconut palm, palmettos), but you convinced me to use only palms that are genuine to Florida. I will get in touch with Heart of the South to order two or three big palmettos (the same you find on Lance’s layout) and a lot of palmetto fronds to make my own dwarf palmettos. As far as I know, Heart of the South ships to Germany, so it should be no problem to get the palms, though it might take some time.
Jack, thank you for the links. If I can’t get palms trees from Heart of the South, I will have a close look at the Model Tree Shop again.
Kurt, I would not be concerned about not using non native palms. If you found non native palms with Google's street view of the district, they were probably either planted by the business owner, or went to seed from some other part of Florida in a previous hurricane. As realistically as your models look, it probably won't look right to you if the prototype has Mexican palms, coconut palms, or other non native species and you don't model them.