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Hello,

Does anyone have any experience of the scale link barbed wire in 1/76?

Also, does anyone know of any convincing barbed wire techniques or products available?

thanks,

Sam



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Sam

Can't help you with the Scale link barbed wire.The only experiance I have is with Preiser HO wire ref. 18337 and wire sold by Green scene. Both are OK but a true scale thickness in 4mm would be so fine and delicate I don't think it would be "useable"



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Haven't used Scalelink's ones:

but I have used the one from Part, which is also photo-etch on brass. I didn't really like it very much. I found it had metal fatigue at the ends of the strip, so it snapped when I tried to get long lengths. I ended up with just short strips; which are OK for a destroyed German trench, but not really what I was aiming for.

I am going to experiment with nylon insect screen - the kind that all north American homes have on their windows. I read a technique: just cut down a line, and the little cross-pieces left behind will look like barbs.



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Hi

I don't have any experience with the scale link barbed wire but I have been buying mine (in industrial quantities for our WW1 show game) from a firm called Ironclad, who are based in South Wales I think. I've picked them up at wargames shows and they are about a pound or so for a couple of metres. Good quality, looks realistic and in scale for WW1. I think S &A Scenics also used to do it but I don't know if they still do. Both firms should be on the web. 

Hope this helps!

Paul B



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Paul B wrote:

Hi

I don't have any experience with the scale link barbed wire but I have been buying mine (in industrial quantities for our WW1 show game) from a firm called Ironclad, who are based in South Wales I think. I've picked them up at wargames shows and they are about a pound or so for a couple of metres. Good quality, looks realistic and in scale for WW1. I think S &A Scenics also used to do it but I don't know if they still do. Both firms should be on the web. 

Hope this helps!

Paul B


 Here it is

£1 for 3 metres. Bargain.

(plus £3.50 postage and packing. Oh well, still a bargain!)

 



-- Edited by PDA on Monday 1st of August 2011 09:10:01 PM

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Are the Ironclad B-Wire fine enough and realistic for 1/72 modeling ?



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Hi papertiger

I would say that it most certainly is. I've used about 30 metres or so of it (probably more) on the 1/72 game that we built for the major wargames shows in the UK this year, and at Antwerp this November. It looks "right" if you know what I mean, not overscale and fine enough with the figures. I've even wound loads of it round dressmakers pins (with their heads cut off) to make barbed wire entanglements.

I'm attaching a photo (if it works!) from the game that might give you an idea.

Cheers

 

Paul



-- Edited by Paul B on Friday 5th of August 2011 07:34:48 PM

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