"15mm Irregular Snake Fence" Topic

Does anyone have (or know where I can find) a picture of Irregular's 15mm snake fence (2 inch sections)? Ideally I would like to see it against some figures so I can make a size comparison.
I would also be interested in seeing pictures of Irregular some fence and earthwork sections.

[I can't seem to find pictures of these items anywhere, including the Irregular Miniatures website.]

Not the best around for the money. the vertical fence is fine. with the useful gates.

These come in 2" sections and can be put together as snake or straight fencing.

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Dave

I'd be interested to hear of any recommendations for better snake fence products but I'd really like to see the items (and know their size/height).

Try these: I have several packs worth and love them.

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These are laser cut and look okay just glued together:

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I just build three sets.

I made a couple dozen feet of them out of flat toothpicks and white glue, and they were one of the cheapest and most useful craft projects I've ever done. They can be as high as you want, and you can set the length to what works for your game/basing system. Sorry I can't find any photos of mine – my photography is a giant sucking hole of a deficit in my miniatures gaming hobby. :-(

Snake rail fences look best if they're a bit messy and chaotic, so you can make an occasional fallen or broken rail, slightly randomize the angle of the bends, and make sure the rails at each end don't line up nicely.

You can get flat toothpicks that are wider at one end and pointy at the other, so reversing them at random also helps the rails look messier and less regularized.

I found I had to shorten them to set the length appropriately, so I made them even messier by breaking off random amounts or one end on some and the other end on others. I used a bunch of these broken off tips as spacers to hold apart the railson the ends of fence sections.

I've seen other people use square-section craft sticks, but I find these to look too regularly shaped and thick. OTOH, square-section and round-section craft sticks from a craft store make brilliant uprights and posts for fence sections that have these.

- Ix

Make your own fencing it's not hard and a much cheaper option.

At many craft stores you can buy lengths of small, square lengths of cut wood, about the diameter of toothpicks, for making your own fences. I know Hobby Lobby has them.

I have had the task of making snake fences on the 'to-do' list for over three years now. I have good pictures of the real thing, informative articles and instructions, and all the necessary materials to get the job done. However, that task never gets done: there is always something else requiring my attention. [Despite being in my fifties, I am a single parent with three young children who recently returned to board wargaming after moving to a new town where I met a keen boardgamer after not having played such games for a quarter of a century. I maintain my interest in miniatures, now primarily ACW.] Gone are the days when I did things such as paint hundreds of Soviet infantry (a dull and tedious task) or miniaturise an actual WWII map to place on a hand-made table to form part of a headquarters piece: now I take the easy way out and just buy what I need when funds are available.

In the absence of any pictures of the Irregular fences (which I can get as part of another order and hence the original enquiry), the first link provided by Extra Crispy seems to what I am after even though they look a little pristine for my ideal. If I add a little damage they should be perfect.

I have made mine from the these guys as presented by Extracrispy: link
It looks very good as presented in one of my AARs:
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"It looks very good as presented in one of my AARs:"
They do look good: I think I'm sold.

I like your forests, especially when looked at side on as in IMG_0831.

What rules do you use?

I have had the task of making snake fences on the 'to-do' list for over three years now. […] Gone are the days when I did things such as paint hundreds of Soviet infantry (a dull and tedious task) or miniaturise an actual WWII map to place on a hand-made table to form part of a headquarters piece: now I take the easy way out and just buy what I need when funds are available.

Amen, brother. With limited hobby time, one should concentrate on the most enjoyable parts and farm out as much of the rest as possible. I have thousands of ACW, AWI, FPW, and Napoleonics figures I didn't paint. Originally, I branched into horse & musket gaming with a commitment to never paint a single figure for those gaming eras, but it turned out to be impossible to buy certain things painted (dismounted cavalry, horseholders, wagons, etc.) so I had to do a bunch of those myself, grumbling all the while about how _ l _ o _ n _ g _ it takes me to accomplish even small projects.

OTOH, I personally really enjoy doing terrain, markers, horses, and machines (ships, artillery, planes, tanks, trucks, wagons, etc.), so I take on those project with enthusiasm – I just painted about 400 palm trees last weekend. <shrug> To each his own.

- Ix