Would like to build a white perimeter fence around "amusement park" and looking for suggestions on best way to do this?
Anyone have a good suggestion for fence building techniques, where to find materials, etc?
Thanks!
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I used a combination of coffee stirrers (ones with round end) I got through Uline and some scale lumber.
Christmas stocks will soon be in the boxstores.
I found this stuff last year. Comes in two 18" long sections per package.
It scales out to 6 ft high and its easy to work with.
Maybe not realistic enough for some, but it works for me.
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For nice scale fencing, try Rusty Stumps. Forty inches of fence for $10.95, just paint it and go.
http://www.rustystumps.com/products.asp?id=23
Thank you.....excellent ideas so far.
The fence around the junkyard was made of pickets cut from a bamboo kitchen placemat:
The corral fence was made from strips of balsa, which you can buy at Michael's:
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For $10 you can buy 10,000 wooden coffee stir sticks. I built this fence around my scrap yard
and I also built the building with them and have used them for many projects around the layout.
Plastruct has a wide selection of plastic fencing materials.
Alan Graziano
Hey Al, is that my favourite junk yard with the acid etched, nasty roof? 
Dave G.
One of our sponsors Scenic Express has fence. This was painted brown.
Another fence with dowel rod and wire.
Originally Posted by CSX Al:
For $10 you can buy 10,000 wooden coffee stir sticks. I built this fence around my scrap yard.
Did the price go down on those? Last time I bought a case is ~$20 + shipping. Still a great bargain!!! and, would make a good fence.
Even then, the last fence that I installed was a laser cut one from Branchline
http://www.branchline-trains.c...ences/ho_fences.html
Not as economical as stirrer sticks, but several useful styles of fencing...
Originally Posted by Bob:
For nice scale fencing, try Rusty Stumps. Forty inches of fence for $10.95, just paint it and go.
http://www.rustystumps.com/products.asp?id=23
Just my opinion here (worth about .02), but I think this fence at less than 1" high would be useful only for residential fencing; not really commercial fence height.
Rod
Originally Posted by Rod Stewart:
Originally Posted by Bob:
For nice scale fencing, try Rusty Stumps. Forty inches of fence for $10.95, just paint it and go.
http://www.rustystumps.com/products.asp?id=23
Just my opinion here (worth about .02), but I think this fence at less than 1" high would be useful only for residential fencing; not really commercial fence height.
Rod
That's the picket fence at the top. The original poster wants perimeter fencing and the bottom of the page shows both 6' and 8' tall security fence. I have the 8' version around a scrap yard.
BTS (Bills Train shop) has 6ft fence that seems reasonable. One night projects, scan down to fence. There is also an offering of 9ft fence.
Copied from the BTS website.
Board Fence Laser-cut wood fence; easy to assemble. Nothing looks better than real wood for a fence! Knock out a board or two!! Each package contains 90 scale feet of six scale foot high fence.
#23014 HO Scale $ 6.95 #03014 S Scale $ 8.95 #13014 O Scale $ 9.95
Bob;
I stand corrected. Thanks for clarifying.
Rod
