After the new lot was glued to the layout, I turned to building the chainling fence. I use brass wires and tulle to make my fences. I start by doing a drawing of the fence. It will act as a template to place and fix the brass pieces for soldering.
Next, I cut the poles from 1 mm (.040") brass wire to length and then cut little grooves using my Dremel with a cutting disk.
Then I fix the poles to the drawing, grooves facing up. I put the wires that will connect the poles on top and fix them too with adhesive tape. For the top of the fence I use a 0,8 mm (.032") brass wire and for the bottom a thin 0,5 mm (.020") wire. On most real chainlink fences the posts are only connected at the top, but I need this thin wire at the botton to keep the poles aligned and to fix the tulle.
That’s how it looks after soldering and a bit of filing to remove excessive solder.
Now it gets a little tricky. I tried several glues to fix the tulle to the brass frame, but the only glue that does the trick is super glue. If anyone has a better idea, please tell me!
I apply super glue to one or two sections at a time,
then put the fence with the front and the tulle facing down on a glass pane (super glue does not stick too well to glass) and tap on the from with my fingers until the glue sticks. Does not work all of the time and sometimes I have to apply some more glue afterwards, but it is the only way to do this I figured out so far.
Now it is getting easy again. I use a scalpel with a new blade to cut the tulle.
On this fence I wanted to have a curled saftey wire on top. I took a single strand of a bigger wire and wound it around a thin skewer before I soldered it to the poles.
Now only painting remains to be done.