Two sides of the pasture are demarked by a double-post split rail fence. I’ve been keeping an eye out for suitable twigs all summer, but they’re all either too curved or too difficult to split or otherwise unsuitable. Then I came up with the idea of using bamboo skewers: they’re straight and plentiful and they split nicely.
Before jumping in and trying to build the fence, I ran a test. I learned that the posts need to be placed reasonably accurately, and that it is best to make them over-length and cut them once in place. I also learned that split rail fences consume an alarming number of pieces of bamboo. The bamboo pieces, which are finished with acrylics, really look the part, though, and I’m ready to commit to the model.
The fence needs to grow from about three feet high at the backdrop to four feet high in the foreground. So, I spent too much time this evening puzzling about arithmetic and geometric series and consistently coming out off by one. In the end, I laid out the posts so each panel is 3 scale inches larger than its neighbour from the background to the foreground, and it came out about perfectly.
Pembroke:87 
it looks solid yet not over-scale – a hard combination to achieve in HO. Nice!
Thank-you, Rob
Looks very accurate Rene. They were everywhere in southern Ontario! I remember going camping with my neighbours as a kid . There were others not too far away who had a fire burning all weekend. Turns out the guy was taking rails from a split rail fence and managed to dismantle and entire section for firewood!
Thanks Jim. Yes, they’re getting a little scarcer now, thanks to all the campers!