Del Monte cont.
Here are the last two photos.
The first one shows the windows and doors painted and glued in. The windows and doors are from one of those San Francisco houses. I used Krystal Klear to glaze the windows.
WARNING: DO NOT USE super glue with Krystal Klear!!! DO NOT USE liquids around Krystal Klear!!!
The palm trees are hand made using the front template I have put here... size to your own scale. I have experimented coloring them using colored pencils, spray paint, acrylics with a brush, colored markers... it just depends on what makes you happy. I used hemp twine for the dried fronds, and the branch structure is 14 guage stranded wire glued on top of a natural twig, in this case, 'carrotwood', which was growing in front of my home in Hawthorne, CA. It has the right curve and color, I think.