"Barbed wire 5.0" Topic

My latest attempt at cheap/fast barbed wire. My last try was from a roll of vinyl coated screen from Lowes, didnt work out, wouldn't hold any shape and looked odd. It was also very hard to cut correctly.
This try is from a larger screen mesh almost like chicken wire in small squares about 3/4".
I used balsa wood stakes mounted on vinyl floor tile, kitty litter and sand. These were not very easy to make maybe three hours to do three stands-good thing I'm not doing WW I!
Also pictured are the Russians I just dipped in Minwax, which was $4.95 USD at ACE hardware and I think it works even better than the Army Dip (sorry to offend)

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Maybe not the ultimate solution but looks pretty good.

Look good to me.If those were on the table,there's no doubt in my mind that those are barbed wire obstacles.

The fence and figs look pretty good, though I might have doubled the winds.

Which shade of Minwax did you use? I've found that Minawax Polyshades Antique Walnut and Tudor (a bit harder to find) are excellent replacements for Army Painter Strong Tone and Dark Tone respectively.

Looks good to me!

Those came out nicely! I too decided to make my own barbed wire and wrote a post on scratch building barbed wire using mesh screen that I purchased at Home Depot. The stuff looks awesome! However, you have to be nuts to take the project on if you need a large amount of of wire. For a few small lengths like you're using it would work well though.

While I used the barbed wire I scratch built for my initial Flames of War barbed wire barrier, I switched over to the Gale Force 9 premade stuff before I finished the FOW barbed wire barrier project. My scratch built barbed wire looks better, but it would have just taken too much time to manufacture enough of it.

I used the poly satin Tudor I found it at ACE hardware and it is perfect- a little shade of brown and black.
Nick, I cant tell from the pi on your site, did you wrap the screen wire around the wire? I used the mesh before and scrapped it because it wouldn't hold any shape that's a good idea to wrap it with wire.

For 6mm, I use the springs from ball point pens. They look great as concertina.

For larger scales, there are online stores that sell compression springs in bulk; those can make great, fast concertina.