N scale fencing

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I am working on the rural scenery and need to put in some fences. I have some very fine copper wire salvaged from and electrical relay that could pass as barbed wire but I was hoping for something that looked like woven wire fencing. Does anyone know of anything?

In another area I have a pen and loading chute to load cattle onto railroad cars. The pen needs to have wooded board fencing. I have the posts and bracing in place but I am dreading cutting and trimming tapered flat toothpicks into enough boards for a COX scale foot pen. Does anyone have an easier way?

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Bukwrm

I remember seeing this how-to on making chainlink fence using wedding veil and wire:

Here’s the link:

http://home.mindspring.com/~filker/Fences/MakeFence.html

I have all the material except the Radio Shack bus-wire, they don’t make it any more. I just need to get the project into my must do list. Looks pretty good.

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Thanks David that is a great link, I bookmarked it.

I can see myself this weekend, a scruffy, gray haired man going into the fabric store and asking a half yard of rust colored wedding veil material.

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Do you have an LHS nearby? I’d just buy scale lumber from Northeastern Scale Lumber. You still have to cut the pieces to length, but no cutting tapering toothpicks.

Regards

Ed

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Good suggestion Ed. My LHS is over an hours drive away but there are two art supply stores in town. They might have something easier to work with.

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I was also worried about the looks, but fortunately my girlfriend picked it up one day, I had shown here the article and said I need to make a trip some day and get the veil, instead she suprised me with it, she has a habit of doing those girly things to me all the time[8D]