Fence Rails for the Hay Field

The fence separating the two fields will be about 70 cm long, and will consume a small mountain of scale logs. I made the logs from bamboo skewers by first cutting the skewers into 12 scale foot lengths with some side-cutters, then splitting those lengths into at least six pieces with a utility knife. It’s […]

Fencing in or Fencing Out?

The area I’ve been calling the hay field, it turns out, is too large for one of the Silflor grass mats that I’ve been storing for over twenty years. I have two, and so there will now two fields, and I’m hoping one can be convinced to become wheat. Then the question came up: should […]

Cattle Pen Fencing

Following last month’s experiment with the stupidly fine wire, I’ve gone on to refine the technique and produce enough wire fencing to keep any future cattle shipments enclosed long enough to get them aboard the stock cars. It’s still remarkably difficult to work with this material that I can barely see and that seems to […]

Stupidly Fine Wire

It is better to leave a detail off than to make it too heavy or over-scale. Typical line fences, such as the one at the edge of the pasture, or the fencing for the cattle pens, are a mesh of wires no more than 1.5 mm in diameter. That’s less than .02 mm in HO […]

Split rail fence and Forced Perspective

The split rail fence goes straight into the background, where other elements are about 3/4 size. So, to bring the two together, the fence diminishes in size as it recedes into the distance. To accomplish this forced perspective, I went through all the rails yet again and sorted them into three piles by size. The […]

Split rail fence proof of concept

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 […]