Carve a rope...Help! 1/32

[pmfs]

Hi!
Maybe isn't the right section anyway I am giving a try.
I want to carve a rope in a bugle or something else to grab around torso of a figure. Any ideas how to get the things simple?
Many thanks in advance.
Pedro.

 

[housecarl]

Lead wire is the way to do it Pedro.

 

[John Bowery]

Soft wire twisted. (Maybe Copper)
Cheers
John

 

[MCPWilk]

Use solder or copper wire.

Good luck,

Mike

 

[Blind Pew]

Go on ebay and get some cardmaking copper wire. As cheap as chips, you can get a lifetime supply for next to nothing.

 

[bwildfong]

Soft wire twisted. (Maybe Copper)
Cheers
John

Go on ebay and get some cardmaking copper wire. As cheap as chips, you can get a lifetime supply for next to nothing.

I often resort to copper wire myself, but beware - I made some nicely hand-braided barbed wire fencing for a 1/35 figure base that oxidized into a lumpy green copper oxide mess right through the paint within a few months . Now if I use copper (or any wire for that matter, just in case it's a copper alloy) I always spray it with a couple light coats of primer to seal it first before I paint it -seems to do the trick

Cheers,

Brian

 

[JasonB]

Fine solder works as well, and is very easily twisted and shaped.

 

[Wings5797]

The soft wire is probably the best option.
I am currently looking at a similar task with an 1854 bugle.
One way that I have used, knowing the colours of the rope, is to use the rope making method.
What I did here is to take threads of the same colour of the finished rope.
Then put tension on each individual thread by spinning /rolling the threads.
Following this secure the three or more threads at one end and spin these together.
This will tie and wrap around the bugle and the figure an can be glued and weathered as needed.
If I get to this stage before you I will let you know if it works well.
Here are a couple of photographs of my first mock up of the highly damaged bugle and the rope.
See what you think Mate.
Cheers,
Keith.

 

[pmfs]

Dear all, many thanks for your ideas. You are all very helpfull.
I tried without sucess doing the task with cooper wire but I failed.
Keith, you have what i looking for, well shaped with the right colors.

Pedro.

 

[carl reid]

Any soft wire should do the job. I find lead is probably the best Because it hold the form better than most. But Scale can be an issue. But you also use cotton soaked in diluted white glue (PVA) with a tiny drop of washing up liquid to help it flow better. Then form it when damp, it will dry stiff and hold the form.

Carl

 

[pmfs]

Thank you Carl! Good idea.

Here a sewn thread I think is raised and exposed???

Cheers and thank you all!
Pedro.

 

[carl reid]

That should be fine Pedro if the scale fits.

Carl