I am looking for some nice fence with barbed wire on top. I can’t seem to find any. I know I have seen this topic before but the search results produced nothing. I did find some nice chain link fence but it didn’t have the barbed wire. Now I know some old companies made them and they can still be found on Ebay I’am sure. But who made or makes it? I know I have seen kits or even some that was ready to install. I don’t want to have to make it.
Thanks
Mike
Walthers makes a plastic chain link fence. I have a couple, but have not built then yet. The posts are plastic and the chain link is bridal veil like cloth. At this point, I do not remember if a barbed wire material is included; the posts have the barbed wire supports
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3125
Alloy Forms had an all brass chain link fence; they are now part of Scale Structures Ltd The posts were brass castings, the chain link was brass screen, and the barbed wire was a silvery thread. It has been out of stock for a long time.
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/650-4128
This is a Walthers search page on chain link fence:
http://www.walthers.com/exec/search?category=&scale=H&manu=&item=&keywords=chain+link+fence&words=restrict&instock=Q&split=240&Submit=Search
And to follow up on G Paine, MR had an
This is the Walthers fence:
The posts are gray plastic, the horizontal supports are wire and the chain link is a “bridal veil” cloth. The barbed wire is not included. I think somebody here (Wolfgang, maybe?) used thread for his. I’ve got no barbed wire on mine, but I still think it looks pretty good.
I found this stuff difficult to assemble. The plastic, metal and cloth don’t want to stay together, so I ended up using CA for everything, including, of course, my fingers. I used a pencil-thin roll of modelling clay to support the posts while I glued the horizontal wires across them. Once together, I sprayed if first with silver paint and then with Dul-Cote.
I model in N-scale and Gold Medal Models makes a really nice barbed wire fence, they may make in HO but I’m not sure.
N-scale page – http://www.goldmm.com/nscale/gmnsctyp.htm
Sorry, just checked their site and no HO fence.
Micronart makes a decent brass etched fence. Lance Mindheim swears by BLMA. I include a photo of the Micronart that is 200’ linear scale feet around a refueling crane depot. To see the BLMA, check out Lance Mindheims “Voodoo & Palmettos” downtown section /progress photos of his Miami based layout.
The chain link fence came as part of the Walthers Cornerstone Northern Light and Power kit. I too found the fence a real pain to put together. I followed Pelle Soeborg’s advice and drilled the fence posts. This made assembling the cross posts a lot easier. But, I had the same “gluing my fingers to chain link material” experience. It DOES look nice when done, though. Pelle used thin wire to make his barbed wire across the top. I may add some to mine later.
If you Google Tulle you will get lots of hits for the netting or just visit a fabric store and ask for tulle, (pronounced tool). Posts could be fashioned from various materials, wood, plastic, metal. I wonder how hard it would be to solder together a wire frame for the fence and glue the netting on that?
The hardest part is the barbed wire, imo.
Here’s an easy way to make miles of barbed wire …
Get some common fiberglass / plastic house window screen - not the metal kind, it won’t work. Take a pair of scissors and cut individual “threads” from the screen. The remaining nubbins left from the cross-threads make perfect barbs. Paint it silver and you’re good to go !
Mark.
That sounds like an easy solution. Thanks for the tip Mark!
From an old forum message:
Unfortunately due to the new forum and its temporary lack of searching past posts I am unable to relate my past experience with the Walther’s chain link fence.
But I will equate it to having root canal on all your teeth without benefit of anesthetic. I built the electric substation with the chain link fence around it. I experimented with different CA formulars finally settling on an instant-cure CA. I also used (thanks to my wife) some spring type hair clips and paper clips to hold the chain link to the rails while gluing.
This was a task I will won’t be repeating for a long, long time again.
Doc
I believe I told my wife “the next time I say I need some more chain link fence”, stick a pencil in my eye.
The link to MicronArt http://www.micronart.com/93405_HOchainlink.html
Can’t help with barbed-wire topped fencing, but here’s a shot of my chain link fence built using “toule” :
Terry
Whoa…Check out the Z scale vehicles and structures on this site. Lots of cool stuff. Way too small for me, but…wow.
Doc,
It kinda sounds like didn’t like working on chain link fence, but I’m not sure. Could you be more explicit.
Bob
Thanks everyone. I got some great idea’s now.
Mike