I have been continuing work on the scarp yard in Carlin and wanted to create some fencing similar to what I had seen around such places. I started with some corrugated foil material that I have used to make roofs on some structures. A little package of this material was my first ebay purchase back in 2001 and has been used on several projects over the years. This material was cut into 10 scale feet high strips. The one shown in the upper right of this photo is how shiny it is so I painted them a duller aluminum color and dry brushed some weathering on them.
Coiled razor wire at the top of the fence was made by winding 30 gauge magnet wire around a bamboo skewer. This was then painted a silver color before being attached to the top cross frame of the fence with Super glue.
I built frames for the fence from .030 x .030 styrene strip painted roof brown before attaching the simulated metal sheeting. This photo shows this in the section that has the gate for the track.
The foil material was then attached to the frame with tiny dots of E6000 adhesive using a bamboo skewer. The foil material is nonconductive and since the frame is made from styrene, there is no chance of shorting the rails.
The gate is supported by a single pin at one end that is not glued into the base so the gate can swing open. The spacing was set so that freight cars and locomotives can pass through without hitting the fence.
Still plenty more to do to finish this scrap yard. More in future posts.
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