Chain Linked Fence

[Anonymous]

Can anybody give me ideas how to build a chain linked fence. MR had an issue years back but I could'nt find it.

[leighant]

My best experience has been with Gold Medal Models etched brass (in N scale). I have also used a kit that had cast posts and screen wire for the chain link. I have also had some mixed luck by using wire to make posts-- recycled coathanger wire is fine for HO, thinner brass or steel wire for N scale. It is important to use a piece of wire for a top rail, to hold the chain link/screen mesh flat across the top. I ACC (cyanoacrylate cement, AKA "Superglue") the screen in place.
If your membername has an e-mail contact, I will e-mail you a picture.

[leighant]

Published articles on chain link fence.
Chain-link fencing. Model Railroader Sept80 p.72
Rural fences,4 types, how to model: split rail, barbed wire,
wire mesh, post & rail. Model Railroader Nov98 p.88
chain link fence, making your own N Scale Magazine MayJune99 p.50

Sorry JCB3, your member profile does not have any e-mail link so I cannot send you anything else like pix of the chain link security fence, and railroad gate, on my Navy Base railroad.

[Jetrock]

A failrly cheap and easy solution is to use tulle, a fine mesh fabric--if you've been to a wedding and they had those little bags of Jordan almonds in little mesh bags, that is the stuff. A dollar or two will buy you enough tulle to surround a decent-sized HO scale compound. Just paint the tulle silver, stretch it between poles of appropriate diameter (brass rod would work well) and presto, lovely chain-link fence. A little rust would set it off well, or top it off with a length of string that has been scrunched up a bit and painted silver for barbed wire on top.

[Anonymous]

hey, how do you make barbed wire?

[Jetrock]

Take some cotton string and rough it up a bit, then paint it a rust color. The little frayed bits on the string become barbs. I imagine you could soak some in matte medium and wrap it around a pencil or something to make rolls of concertina wire, or just stretch it fairly straight between posts for a bobwire fence.