Making Barbed Wire And I Beam Obstacles

[Rikk30]

Got it now. :huh: I pictured it all wrong, nice!

This is off the current topic but has any one tried the textured Krylon paint? I bought some today and sprayed a useless sprue and some styrofoam. It melted the styro, not as bad as expected but the sprue looked neat. It has a long drying time but it should be cool for making some interesting looking bunkers. I bought the can that looks like granite and it cost $8.

[cavdogg]

yo dude, simple method that i use that works awesomely.......

simply get sum chicken wire, or small mesh wire(available from most hardware stores) and cut a strip about 10cm long(4 inches) and about 1.5cm wide(5/8 inch).
you then wrap that around a pencil, or similar object, pull the pencil out and twist the wire, make it in those lengths for best results.

[meltabomber]

nice easy way i make mine-
it doesnt look liek barbed wire very close up but looks great from a foot away or so, costs hardlt anything and takes a matter of minutes to make.
get some very thin wire like 1/2 a mm.
wrap it tightly round a pencil or a board marker or summin, the tighter the wrap the narrower the roll of barbed wire.
then put a dot of super glue on your newspaper and rotate the roll of wire over it, dipping it into the patch of glue every 1-2 cm.
roll it arounf quickly in some fine flock
paint it tin blitz and drybrush it with boltgun metal

[Dragonslayero]

Isn't chicken wire a bit rough?
I mean, that mesh is just to rough when it comes to the spacing of the "joints".
There should be some kind of more finer mesh you can use.
Anyway, just get that stuff, cut it into long strands making sure that the barbed parts are not to long, tyhen twist it a couple of times to bring out the spikes in different directions. Then just coil the whole thing around a pencil or something and, voila!, you got yourself a barbed wire roll.

[Nostrafus]

Yeah chicken wire can be way too rough... trust me, it's not fun when you're running through the woods at flank speed then leap over something and land in an old spool of chicken wire... yeah that almost put me in the hospital.

But I learned my lesson... chicken wire sucks... move it out of the way because people like me are going to be tear assing through your woods...

[Nostrafus]

Oh... geez... forgot this one...

If you don't have a radio shack nearby you, you can get the equivelant of enamel coated copper wire at most craft stores.

It will be in the beads section, or if you can't find it, ask someone where you can find "Beading wire". The largest it comes in is about 24 gauge so it's not too far off from enamel coated copper, and there isn't any insulation on it.

[Dragonslayero]

Don't exactly understand what you mean by the beading wire.
Is it sort of like the brass eched stuff you get at hooby stores.
By hobby stores I mean the kind of shop where they ONLY sell flower decoration stuff.
I saw some stuff that was made to look like Iwy, maybe you could even use that it you're really desperate.

[Nostrafus]

Beading wire is exactly like enamel coated copper wire in every way except 1, it has no enamel insulator. It's just bare copper wire.

[Dragonslayero]

I understand what you mean, but does that stuff have anything potrouding from it?
I mean like in the barbs of the barbed wire?
Woulden't be very special if the razorwire was made "safe", if you know what I mean.

[Nostrafus]

... okay, same idea as my previous posts...

twisting a smaller gauge wire around the copper, and clipping it to make barbed wire.