GOOD IDEAS FOR CHAIN LINK FENCE

Have you considered metal window screen cut on the diagonal? Might be an option. Others may have suggestions for posts and crossbars, etc...

I wonder if the nylon screen would work, check your local hardware store. you can buy a lot of screen on a roll or just buy what you would need. I think it comes in black or grey color. 

I use window screening - its not metal but nylon or plastic and easy to work.  The "mesh distance" works out to about 3+ inches which is a bit larger than the real world, but it is cheap, easy to use, and looks good. 

I last used it on my small parking lot.  You can see it in the pictures although it fades into the background which is, I think, what you want a fence to do in most cases.

https://ogrforum.com/d...nt/13256332701309526

JIm,

I use nylon or fiberglass window screen like Lee mentioned. I use Plastruct TB-1 or TB-2 plastic coated wire for posts, top bars and braces. I use sowing string for barbed wire. I usually paint everything silver. If you paint the sowing string with a paint brush, it fuzzes up a little and looks like barbs. I have a template I made to make large sections of fence. The Plastruct plastic coated wire can be purchased in 30-inch lengths. I use CA to glue everything together. I build the fence frame first and paint it. I paint the screen and install it later using CA. I have provided fence sections for customers as long as three feet.

Alan Graziano 

Slightly off the subject

I recently bought Gorilla super glue,C A- Right?  for joining some dissimilar pieces

I started with it to try to fix one of my wifes ceramic pieces for her Christmas display,and a few other pieces

I haven't been able to get that **** stuff to hold ANYTHING together

I was thinking the old regular superglue,you take a broken arm off a little ceramic piece,you put a drop on it,and preso,glued for life

This crap,I haven't gotten it to work on anything

http://www.gorillatough.com/in...e=gorilla-glue-guide

There it is,the superglue

Now the gorilla glue,that works OK,I've joined a couple pieces together,and so far so good

Now that super glue ---That's CA right?

I'm ready to throw it out

Hi Alan!

I used 2 inch finishing nails for the posts, then superglued wire mesh screening to them.  I used small plastic spring clamps to hold them in place.  The super glue gel is what I used.  I have pictures of it on my EL-HIrail page here

I went the window screen method.  Replaced some windows on my house (non-train-related project) and kept some of the old aluminum screen.  Cut rectangles on a diagonal and used small wood dowels (from craft store) painted silver/gray as the posts.  Used some of strands of the screening to tie the screen to the posts.

- Steve (hope the picture is not too fuzzy)

I too have used the screen method, it worked well.

Joe,

I have good luck with the gorilla super glue and sue it almost exclusively for model building.  I think maybe it is the material you are joining,  The chart on the link you send indicates it is not suggested for Glass.

I liked using silver wedding TULLE. Appears to be more convincing and closer to scale. 

http://www.tulleshop.com/Whole...LJuLUCFQsGnQod7zcAAQ

Transman,

How are you doing ? I do not think gorilla glue is CA. If it is, you may have to have a spray accelerator to make it set up in a few seconds.

Alan Graziano

I say go with Dennis's kit. Brennans Model Railroading Products.

Support your hobby, buy from your LHS but also from the little guys.

Also the most realistic fence that I have seen so far.

Once you get the kit and the concepts down, his refills are only about a $1. a foot.

And you could probably source the stuff a little cheaper but why?

And he has a great writing style that is also very instructional. 

And Gorilla Glue makes moisture cure urethane and also a Cyanoacrylate Gel

FMH

the bridal netting found at fabric shops whorks

and you can cut it with scissors

Hi Alan

What kind do you use?

Yeah Dennis kit is great, I am also partial to window screen...a light spray of aluminum for color works well. 

Transman,

I get my CA from Plastruct along with the accelerator. The accelerator is a must for making fences the way I do them.

Alan Graziano

I used Dennis's kit also for a 43 inch [150 scale feet]  fence.

Highly recommend.

I've never had good results with Super Glue.  I always have had great success with Krazy Glue.  I have no idea why, but that's my story and I'm "stickin" to it!  

Bill Berresford

I'm a Krazy glue kinda guy, too.

I thought that they were both alpha cyanoacrylate type glues....

Yup! They both CA. Henkel makes most of the CA in the world now and much of the stuff you get at hobby shops is all private labeled Henkel CA. I tried Gorilla CA too and found it had a slow cure time and did respond to accelerator.

Super glue ages quickly. As it ages its cure times get longer and longer. Keep it in a freezer if you're not going to use it regularly. CA also kicks by moisture so it absorbs atmospheric moisture and starts kicking, but slowly. It's manufactured in freezing temperatures so it doesn't kick in the machine, which would be bad... very, very bad.

I use accelerator almost all the time using the spray head's tube as a way to get the accelerator to the work piece. Eventually the tube gets hardened CA on the end and has to be thrown out or cleaned off.

I don't know that there's much difference between superglue and Krazy glue but I do know that Krazy glue gel is the only one I've been able to use the whole tube without the cap gluing the tube shut. Making it useless.

I used wood dowels and fiberglass screen.

You can't see it in these pictures, but I added silver thread along the top to simulate "barbed" wire.

You mean like this?