Let P be a real-valued and weighted homogeneous plurisubharmonic polynomial in ${ℂ}^{n-1}$ and let D denote the “model domain” z ∈ ℂⁿ | r(z):= Re z₁ + P(z’) < 0. We prove a lower estimate on the Bergman distance of D if P is assumed to be strongly plurisubharmonic away from the coordinate axes.