"Quick, easy and cheap barbed wire sections" Topic
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| scrivs | 15 Mar 2015 8:31 a.m. PST |
We need quite a bit of barbed wire for our WWI games so I've set up a production line and churned out 6ft of the stuff so far.
Although it does look better as double sections, more of a battlefield obstacle than Farmer Giles field.
I've put the recipe and instructions together over on Scrivsland link |
| normsmith | 15 Mar 2015 9:04 a.m. PST |
Nicely done. I have some thin balsa wood which I have been trying to 'use up', it might make a good base. |
Joes Shop  | 15 Mar 2015 9:50 a.m. PST |
Agreed – Who makes the wire-? |
| Cheriton | 15 Mar 2015 10:59 a.m. PST |
Agreed – Who makes the wire- I second the query… |
| Ceterman | 15 Mar 2015 11:18 a.m. PST |
In the copy:
All the materials are quite cheap and readily available. You can get 6m of the wire from Northstar for £3.50 GBP and that is probably the most expensive component. I've used nearly two of these so far. |
| Joes Shop | 15 Mar 2015 12:59 p.m. PST |
Yes, I saw that: was hoping with the name I could do a search and see if anyone sold it in the US. |
| monk2002uk | 15 Mar 2015 1:28 p.m. PST |
Nice work. It is important to remember that these models are approximations for this sort of thing:
Impossible to get through unless there were tanks to roll over it or there was a lot of wire-cutting with artillery and trench mortars. Robert |
| scrivs | 15 Mar 2015 2:25 p.m. PST |
Thanks chaps. If you can get Gale Force 9 stuff they do it. It's actually called 'Sealing Wire' you may get some leads from Google. |
| Mingans Marauders | 15 Mar 2015 2:40 p.m. PST |
Those look awesome! I just read instructions on a site that showed you how to build real with barbs barbed wire. I need to find it again, but I remember you used thin wire from the craft store. |
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begins to think about terrain for Team Yankee.
