Im needing help on building farm fencing does any one have any how to articles on wooden fence?I have not had any luck on finding ready made wood or wire fencing acceptable for farming scenery. Thank you in advance . Bill
Use little pieces of wood or suitably colored plastic for posts. 1/32" square pieces or smaller would be about right. Place them vertically along the fence line so they stick up about 4-5 scale feet (5’ is 3/8 of an inch at a even spacing. I sugest 1/2" minimum (about 7 scale feet) to 3/4" maximum (10 scale feet). Let the viewer imagine the barbed wire. To simulate a gate you can place double post on one of the opening to represent a gate that is made of wire that is simply moved out of the way to allow egress, or you can put double posts on each side of the opening and build representation of a more substantial gate between them. If a doube post is placed on one side of the opening and the second post (representing the other eng of the gate) is placed at the proper distance not in line with the fence an open gate can be made.
I built some very good lookine woven wire (farmer call “hog” wire) fence in N scale using cloth type window screen. Don’t use the wire type as it will unravel. Cut it into scale 4’wide strips, air brush it with metalic silver, and when dry paint the top 2 rows of squares red. For steel fence posts I used Plastruct “T” peices, the smallest I could find, cut them to length, painted them Kelly green, and when dry painted the top tip white. Put is all to gether and it looks great.
Ron
Would this work? http://www.yesteryearcreations.com/products/n-wire.html
Also, the March/April 2005 issue of Nscale mag had an article on making a wire fence.
A little ways down the page there are several fences: http://www.wig-wag-trains.com/Plastruct/Plastruct-Product-Page.htm
I know most farms don’t have chain link fences, but this might be of some use: http://home.mindspring.com/~filker/Fences/MakeFence.html
Good tips .This is what i have been looking for.Wasn’t quite sure how to approach this in N gauge.Thanks again