I need to build about 2 feet of N scale barbed wire fence. I know there are etched brass fences out there, but would prefer to scratchbuild something if I can. I’m looking for any suggestions for materials or proceedures on how to do this.
Thanks, Ron
you could use some really thin fish line for the wire and brass wire for the post(metal) use balsa for wood post.
You couldn’t see the actual barbs in N scale.
Yes, because that would be near impossible
Ron,
You’re a glutton for punishment, aren’t you?
I’d say that if you want to do it that way I’d be looking at armature wire (smallest thing I can think of that won’t break if you just look at it). You could pull out a length of it, secure it, then take another length and periodically just loop it around the first wire and chop the ends to make the “barbs”.
Thats some mighty fine work though!
I’m not so concerned about the barbs as I am about the basic wire fencing.
Ron
Get yourself some of the thin wire they use on small hobby transformers and windings in motors, and wrap it around a thin dowel. Slide the dowel out from the coiled wire, and stretch the wire between the posts.
The transformer or the armature windings are about the thinnest wire you’ll find. After installing and painting, you could easily simulate barbs by dabbing the rusty/brown paint and pick up iron filings or any other tiny material and apply. Any kind of small blob would look like those tiny barbs.
Is it chain link fence you’re looking for? I used some bridal veil material (gleaned from little bags of bird seed handed out at a wedding!) and some straight pins with the heads cut off for posts. Not the most complete model in the world, but it does the trick for my purposes…
The trick is to cut it at a 45 deg. angle so the little squares are diagonal to the posts. I colored the mesh with a silver Sharpie marker, I figured paint would be to FAT.
Lee
Good looking fence Lee. N scale can be tough for such details. You seem to have so much more flexability working in HO.
Nah, in HO you just go buy stuff and glue it down… you don’t really have to “work” on anything![swg]
Lee