"Renedra Worm Fencing" Topic

I am scale creeping from 10mm and 15mm battles to 28mm skirmish gaming. In the past I have made my own tiny snake rail fences, plank by plank and the allure is gone. Renedra worm fencing looks to be a lot faster to make. Does one glue the pieces together and than paint or can the pieces be painted and then snapped together as needed?

Does anyone else have any other suggestions for cheap and fast snake rail fencing?

Maybe I am giving in too fast? I suppose 28mm fences are quicker to build than 10mm or 15mm ones? Can anyone reccomend a size of dowel or other material for 28mm scale snake rail fencing?

Thank you in advance.

Good ol' matchsticks. A bit fiddling to start with but cheap and effective. If you look up some of my game reports you can see how they look.

PaperTerrain has snake rail fencing that is VERY quick and easy!

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Is that cow dead or is it just sleeping?

It's feet are sticking straight out, so I'd say it's definitely dead

I think it was faking.

I didn't realize that "cow-tipping" started during the American War for Independence. I thought it was a 20th century phenomenon.

Renedra fencing is good. l like the fact that unlike some commercially made items it doesn't look like its made from scale railroad ties!

I second matchsticks. PVA and a large box of kitchen matches and you can fence all of America for about $4. USD Seems crazy to me to buy plastic to make it look like wood when you could use wood that can easily be trimmed or split to look like rails split by axe.

Another advantage of wood is that you can stain it, which is easier than painting and gives a more natural appearance. And you can still apply washes or drybrush it after it dries.

If you're using matchsticks, you can stain the sticks before gluing. I use a cheap disposable aluminum cooking tray, about 9x12 by an inch or less deep. Pour some stain in, put in your sticks, slosh them around, and let them dry on paper towels. Pat the sticks gently with a paper towel to remove excess stain. And I recommend rubber gloves of some kind.

The stain I use is Minwax Wood Finish Classic Gray 271. All you need is the small 8 ounce can. You do need paint thinner or mineral spirits to clean your brush. I'm in the US, so I don't know if this particular brand is available everywhere, but I am sure you can find something like this wherever you are.

Also, if you don't feel like cutting the heads off a few hundred matchsticks, you can get pre-cut matchsticks at craft stores. The brand I found is Woodsies Match Sticks, made by Loew Cornell. 150 sticks per package, 2 1/4" long x 1/8" square.

They are available online, but shop around! Prices, and shipping, vary widely!

I live partly in the country & suburbs. "Butterfly bush" twigs and the dead stalks of waste field waist-high flowering weeds works great. Easy to snap to length, free, already coloured with various shades and of variable thicknesses. Use white glue and don't forget the vertical leaning posts at the intersections. The important thing is to buy a bottle of nice port and remember this is not a job to do when sober.

I agree with NY Irish the use of matchsticks is cheap and very effective. I've literally done miles of fencing and they look good on the table. I used a card base, superglue for glueing, black undercoat then either grey drybrushing for older fences or brown for newer fences.
Good luck
Pete

Thank you for the input gentlemen. I ended up going the matchstick route. It is much faster than doing the 10mm scale ones!

Bandolier,
Where does the two rail fence from your picture come from?

They are pretty nice aren't they?
I got them from this seller on ebay.
auction
He does lots of scratchbuilt terrain as well. If you drop him a message he'll probably rustle some up.

Thank you Bandolier! They are quite nice.

Yeah, this is the only worm fencing I know of:

theinfosphere.org/Parasites_Lost

Dan

These were homemade and stained by hand too for 25/28mm. I think they're cut-up barbecue/cooking skewers.

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Click through the arrow buttons for more photos---they're in almost every one.

Here it is:

Worm fencing at its best.

Dan

One of my favourite episodes, CC.