Modeling Scale Chain Link Fence Final | River Road - Vlog #83 

Amazing looking fence Boomer! Another great tutorial! I am learning so much from following your channel, thank you for taking the time to share with us, I know there is a lot of work involved to create these videos and I for one am extremely grateful you take the time to share your wisdom, experience, and incredible talent!

Thank you Boomer for sharing your work and teaching us some new tricks. I'm 73 and I have learned a lot of new tricks from watching your videos. Thank you again.

Fantastic from beginning to end! Making the tarps out of crepe paper so that they wrinkle so realistically is just brilliant! Thank you very much, Boomer, for continuing to share your approaches, tips, and encouraging words!

This is the most helpful channel I’ve ever seen. IT’s reestablishing my motivation! Thank you very much!!👏🏻

Best tutorial and turnout of HO chain link I've seen, great job!

Thank you for sharing your artistic knowledge while man thank you again you know our father says be perfect for he is perfect I truly believe this is how we achieve excellence as perfectionate there but boy you're off close know what you doing man keep it up

Yep this boomer is back in ur world after 30 yrs of flushing the nest ☺️ur teachings are making my world easier 👍❤️thx

4.30am (Sat). Can't sleep. Cup of tea and.....RU-vid..and! your building of the chain link fence. Wow! So easy and simple and marvellous 🙂 Thankyou. I have a number of unfenced properties but not for long 👍

Wow..awesome fence..thanks for sharing and keep up the great work...Lance... you could send me a couple hundred feet..lol

Impressive result

Howdy Boomer! Working my way through some of your older videos. This is just amazing... outstanding results! I think I might even be able to make a fence from scratch. Hey, stranger things have happened 😁 You are such a good teacher - well done and thanks for sharing 🤠

I never scarfed a joint but I have scarfed down a pizza or two when I was younger.

I've been going back through all the old videos because I miss Glover Road. And watching that final ops session when all the former scenery was being moved off the layout on that flat car made me kind of sad, so to see that dozer at the beginning of this video put a smile on my face. Seems like it was yesterday when you were announcing Glover was coming to an end but that dozer reminded me that River will still have some DNA from Glover. It's been pretty fun to go hey I remember that tree or that dumpster used to set next to the old cold storage.

Fantastic job. Thanks for your tutorials. Since watching your videos I have started using an airbrush for my modelling. It has quickly become my most useful tool

Boomer, I have learn't so much from you in everything you teach us. Just to say thanks. It is highly appreciated.

It does look brilliant. OO, love the shadow effect of painting black and the dusting light blue grey from the top down. What a masterful effect.

Nicely done! I think that I would have installed a diagonal brace in the last panel at either end. But it looks great and the tarps are clever.

I have seen a few different ways to build a fence and your version looks pretty easy and the results look excellent!

The 'tarp' treatment works great in n scale as well - just added these to my own fencing in an industrial area to add interest. Thanks for sharing a really fabulous technique!

Brilliant tutorial Boomer. Thx to your channel I am an airbrush convert. Nothing beats it. Just about to sit down now and scratch build a fence to go with my yard office replica built from your tutorials 😁

I really like your videos because I learn something in every one. I see that you have a dog!!!

it looks better then real !

Brilliant... I'm sitting here, watching you glue the barbed wire stage, and off 'n on holding my breath 😵‍💫 Also I'd like to see you do a siding with a railroad track blocking chain link hinged gate... even fixed it'd be cool...

Absolutely MOUTH DROP, MIC DROP Inspiring... Thanks for sharing!

Now I get to try this in N scale. It should be a challenge.

Genius building the initial stage in place. Using tubes to snip proper length, the tarp and more. In N scale this is tough, but looking forward to doing it.

Nice fence, tarp really makes the overall fence come alive. I have done similar fences for Formula 1 racing tarps using printed parchment to embed admarks, then going over with a wash to bring out the text within the paper. Excellent job. Talking about the airbrush vs spray cans. For those on the fence. You can use just air to move and push your wetter paints, to age areas. And you can also use water or solvent, to partially expose areas of interest. Also use 3/10 saline mix using acrylic, to pull color in, giving an caustic, chemical-burn look as well. Again, great job.

Looks good. I used wedding veil also on my "N" scale layout which was built about 6 years ago. The veil was attached to a large frame I made and all of the cuts were on the bias (45deg) so the chain link looked like the real thing. After l painted the veil a flat silver while stretched on the frame the fence was cut at .75" which was about a 8 ft high fence. My fence posts were 2" finish nails and the top if the nails l flattened out and drilled a hole in it for the top rail to go through. My top rail was .032 safety wire that l pulled straight. The veil was attached to the fence posts with carefully applied ca glue and as for the length of my fence posts after the posts were installed on the area of the layout l did not have any wobble at all in the fence. This system does work better than plastic fence material that others use.

Nice looking stuff once again and glad you inform people on color changes for different angles. Also you have more restraint than I . The work and materials is your choice , so if you want to work with plastic oh well. Also the same type materials bond and join together better...common sense. Anyway the warehouse's paint is looking good.

Another video of your usual amazing, outstanding quality. Got to go and fix a fence now.

Amazing detail. Have to get me some rod and start building. Great job.

Beautiful work! Thanks for showing it to us! I'm not sure I want to try it with my N scale but it looks awesome!

This is great. A very simple way to do it. Love your videos and tips

Ultra neat! Impressive job there 👏🏻👍

Thank you for this great tutorial. I build my fences similarly. But your variant is much faster and looks better. I'll test that. Greetings Tino

Wow!!! Incredible detail. Awesome job!!

First thank you for this channel, so glad I found you. I am back in the hobby after a 30 years hiatus flying helicopters, airplanes and jets, still doing it but missing the creativity of model railroading. I had planned on a grandiose layout but your channel, which I have avidly watched for the past few months, every single episode (almost), has made me think twice. Why not do a few shelf layout, that I will join in the end but allowing me to tackle many unrelated interesting scenes? Not sure how it will go but I have plenty of new techniques to try out thanks to you. Sorry for the lengthy comment, I could have rambled on a lot more but lets say I love the trees I am building following your techniques and my (poor) abilities.

Very nice 👍 thanks for showing this

Thanks boomer I think I need to redo my chain link fence on my layout 😎 regards fred

Excellent work!!!

Thought that was Dusty doing voiceovers at the end! 🤣👍✌️

Boa noite. Seu trabalho e diferenciado🤜🤛

It's called tulle and pronounced like tool. I would never use plastic for my fence posts. That looks extremely difficult. My soldering skills are much better than my gluing skills so I'll just use 18 gauge wire. When using wire poles and rails you can just use your soldering iron and melt the bottom instead of trimming. Cheers from eastern TN

Again great tips and thank you great job

Indeed Boomer, those fences indeed aren’t aluminum but steel sendzimired with a zinc coating. The dull grey look is the zinc layer patina. Love how you built this fence, the shadow effect you achieve with the airbrush is absolutely awesome, and oh so simple. Those tarps, what can I say more? The true epitome of the postage stamp scene?! Then, you show new postage stamp scenes all the time!!! Such a great vid on fencing. Love it!! Am using the Golden version of matte medium, the Liquitex type is out of stock over here. Same results though. Thanks 🙏 for sharing.

Great tutorial, thank you for sharing!

Wow well done. Thank you for sharing. I think this can work in N scale too.

Great tutorial as usual 👍👍👍

Very nicely done. Loved the first bit of music. Same piece I use on my 4wd utube videos.😂😂

That really looks great!

Wow the fence looks great! Not sure what's more valuable the actual project or the method of how to construct it . So many other building practices carry over to other idea's.

Greetings once again Boomer! This is off topic, but I'm looking at buying a brand new Walthers Proto 2000 Burlington Northern SD9 w/DCC & Tsunami2 Sound. I know nothing about Walthers locomotives or where I could research them, so I thought I'd start here. Is it worth $190, solid drive train and reliable? Thank you for being the asset you are. You are truly appreciated by this guy!

Great work!

I am going to try something like this for N scale. I just recently found some tulle that is small enough,

Very cool :)

Thanks Boomer!! Looks like a wintertime project for me ...

Thank you for the detailed description of this fence construction! Regarding your painting methods, if the fence was to be seen from both sides, would you do the same painting to both sides? I'm going to be using your construction and painting methods on my modules.

Great to see the fence video. As you moved into the fence your camera passed a cell tower structure. I have looked for a blog where you describe cell tower construction but haven’t found one. Did you do a video on that during the Grover Road build? If you did, what blog is it. Thanks I’m always looking forward to your next video. Your work quality, philosophy, and work ethic is so refreshing.

Just wondering if you could tell me where did you get those nipper cutters that you use they are excellent product for cutting styrene. Did a search for them couldn't find them so I thought to ask you. I too really enjoy working with styrene... Very informative channel. Blessings Pastor Randy Bourque

Another real to life looking project for River Road! The wind blown tarp really sets the scene. Also, the shading of the fence from black to silver creating shadows is exactly how chain link fencing really looks. Amazing how you know to do that! Boomer, I keep a list of all the numbers and sizes of the Evergreen products you show. But is there a specific size overall that you generally use to confirm to the HO scale? CHEERS

Id like to make my first o gauge evergreen chain link fence. Im older than god, but have never worked with evergreen stuff...but, its time. Can you suggest a good set of tools, like those knippers and bent end tweezers. Have only klein ho track cutters from my ho days... now im ogauge, lucky enough to have the space here in nj, usa. ...you are teaching me much, awakening my enthusiasm...gary j

Love it!!!!

No idea why this popped up. I have done real fencing and, with modern laser levels, post hole diggers, etc, you can build real world fences like this that look unrealistically real. Takes a couple of years, even more, for mesh to stretch, occasional post get bumped out of true, concrete to get stained. Concrete gravel boards are a problem because they stop hedgehogs from moving between gardens.

Really nice fence! I will have the opportunity tp try this as my new industrial area makes progress. Have you tried E-Z Line for the barbed wire? It's an elastic thread which "gives" when bumped.

Boomer. Many thanks for another’ how to ‘ video. As I have said before your work is inspirational.

NIce fence and tarps. What brand is the container with doors that open behind the 'veil'?

Does the tulle come with different size holes or is it all the same? Just wondering because I don't want to buy some and it's hole size be more akin to 1:35 scale rather than HO scale. I'm guessing its probably the same but guessing has got me in trouble before. Using the crepe paper to simulate tarp was a surprise to me because I've seen tissue paper used mainly as a material for making tarps. This is a different effect than laying over covering something wanting the tissue paper to take the shape of what you're covering more and what you're doing here you want it stiffer so it looks more tight since its hanging vertically. Looks awesome. 👍

Looks great, can't wait to try it, by the way, where can I buy those snippers that you used

Great job and a technique I’ve not seen before. One question, how and what did you use to trim the toule on the bottom of the fence? Scissors or a sharp razor? I model in N scale and cutting the fence material straight has been the challenge. Thanks Boomer!

What stuff do you need to build a Ho Scale Fence with

Hi Boomer. Where did you found that Swiss made cutter? Looks like a very handy tool. Regards, cheers Ronald (Modellbahn Rosenbahn)

Great as always boomer! Where are those little snips that you cut the posts from?

has the office got it's porta poty?

love the way you are able to create such realistic scenery, by the way, what is the name of the tool you used to trim the top of each post down to size?

Why not super glue?

let's build a fence. Ok

Awesome, Boomer!

That CA glue u r using is the worst on the market!!! I have had too much agony with it!!!