Scale Barbed wire

[oldgit]

Chaps,

I’d like to add some barbed wire around a typical type 24 pillbox as part of a slow burning Battle of Britain diorama in 1/76^th and I’d appreciate any advice on whether the wire would have been ‘coiled’ or ‘fenced’. Also, what was the prescribed method of anchoring the wire? Did they still use iron pickets in early WW2, or would it have been timber stakes? Was the wire delivered in rolls or were the coils compressed into ‘hoops’?

Finally, any advice on making barbed wire in 1/76^th would be very, very welcome. I was thinking along the lines of painted fuse wire, wound around a cylindrical ball point pen, with blobs of adhesive or paint to perhaps represent the barbs, if indeed they could actually be seen in 1/76^th, but I would welcome any of your preferred methods.

Thanks everyone,

Tim

[spruecutter96]

Hi, Tim.

This is a tricky one.... I would offer the opinion that the barbs would be too small to see in 1/76th scale. Having said that, if you just had a length of very thin fuse wire representing the stuff (with no visible barbs), I'm guessing it would look a bit weird. I think the way round it would be to have the wire in large coiled sections (say about 2 or 3 scale feet in diameter), people would instinctively think it was barbed wire, simply because we've seen coils of barb-wire in news-reels and the like.

I have no idea if anyone produces barbed-wire in this scale....

Hope this of some help.

Chris.

[batcode]

If helps i know army painter used to do some barbed wire for small scales as saw some in my local antics!! Worth a try

[Black Knight]

For a dio I did, I used the food bag ties, the plastic ones with wire inside. They were in a block, so used a blow torch to burn the plastic off, which coloured the iron wire. Then I coiled the wire around a round rod, over lapping sections and coiling in opposite directions. I slid the wire off onto the dio directly on on near it was to be.

[bazer]

Hi guys

have just joined this forum so am a bit late with this, but if anyone is still looking for barbed wire W D MODELS sell 1 76 scale p etch metal .dont think the diff in scale matters much.

[Ingo Degenhardt]

E.T. MODEL makes some in 1/72. # J72-005 (PE)

www.etmodeller.com

[Eludia]

Just google scale barbed wire, someone is selling a 6ft length of OO scale (1/76) barbed wire for £2.50 + free p&p on flea-bay.