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About 2 months ago there was a post regarding the Walthers kit and the effort to deal with it. The June issue Walthers Flyer lists a couple of other brands of HO fence kits. One was by Plastruct and I can't recall the other off hand. Pros or cons on the Plastruct? I'm planning a fence for a mildly detailed background area so minute details and perfection aren't a must. The other post had several replies on the Walthers so no sense rehashing that.
Thanks
Well you can make your own with brass rod and wedding veil material.
BLMA makes a photoetched kit that looks real good to.
I agree with the above poster, if you have the time you can easily make your own.
If I was going to buy a kit, I'd buy the Micro Art model at
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/502-87985. It has great barbed wired detail and is pretty easy to set up. The Plastistuct model is very coarse and really doesn't look good at all. It isn't hard to make your own with some thin brass rod and a fabric called fine mesh tulle, used in wedding veils. You can either solder or CA the brass rod together in a post and top rail pattern and then stretch the tulle over it, securing it with a few drops of CA per post and top rail. If you want barbed wire, you can bend the top of the posts out and them use some thin fishing line, CA'd on and painted silver. You'd be surprised how much it looks like barbed wire even though it has no barbs. You can build enough chain link fence for a pretty good sized layout for what you'd pay for about 18 inches of Micro Art fence.
The wedding viel material is called tulle and can be purchased at any fabric store. A yard will last your lifetime and five others.
Bob
the smallest toulle (veil) I've found was still a smidge too big for HO scale. I'm the only one that seems to notice on my layout, however. Some of the kit fences seem to go too far the other way and look more like losely woven cloth with very little open space.
The devil is in the details, and on scale chain link fence, he's all over the place.....
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