prairie

Feb 2013 24

Making a fence

My third module, the prairie scene, is rapidly approaching completion. It is based on a grain elevator I bumped into while taking a wrong turn in Washington State during my 2011 visit to the USA. The elevator is located on North Paha Packard Rd next to the Union Pacific track between Spokane, WA and Portland, OR.

My most recent project on it has been to build a small 3 strand wire fence next to the tracks to keep the pesky sheep in.

To build it, I cleaned and copped up some ~1mm piano wire, into regular lengths. I primed and painted them an acrylic "dust" color. Google suggested...

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