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So..i'm a poor hobbyist. I need roughly 40 noise marines.. Here's the thing...im not dumping about 300$ to GW. So..after looking and looking i finally found a cheap easy conversion. I do however need to get a load of gargoyle heads,as well as Guitar wire. I've never used this stuff,but have seen it everywhere in our hobby. How hard is it to cut? Does it bend easy enough to work with? Should i drill tiyn holes for the ends, or will simply gluing it in place be enough? Thanks for any help that can be given folks

Easy enough to cut with a pair of wire clippers...
But bending... ugh. It's difficult to get a smooth curve. Doable, but there is a much better solution - the masq-mini 'tube tool'.

The resultant GS 'wires' are much, much easier to bend (let them cure before fitting them). 'Ribbed' as opposed to 'wound', but I think for the amount you want to do, bending guitar string would drive you mad.

Hmm ok, where can i find this tool at then? OR i guess i could not be lazy and Google it haha.

Yeah i would suggest then tube tool or the tentacle maker.

I never used guitar wire but what i have heard and seen it is really hard to get a realistic even curve with it. If you should go for the wire i would drill a hole to get a better and more stable connection. And on top of that i would also add a triny bit of GS and wrap it around the attachement point to create a plug.

I used the masq-mini tube tool for my own noise marine conversions and it works really well.

Found the tool, and i do indeed like what it can do. However it's going to cost me a good chunk of change to get one. And being as i am on a super small budget, i doubt i will be getting one. Might go pick up a pack of Guitar string today to test it out. OR... Are there any other tools like mini masq thing? perhaps something from here in the states?

The tentacle maker is an alternative and i believe is from the US. I have linked it in my other post.

They're called guitar strings, not wire :p And it's easy to cut and easy to bend. But I do agree, the tentacle tool makes better looking stuff. But buying one single guitar string will be cheaper.

I've also heard of people using a hair comb as a different tool, a much cheaper one too.

The thicker the string, the more it will want to spring back; you can get them in lighter gauges, which might make them more workable. Also, only three strings in a complete set will be the coiled variety - the thinnest three are just like solid wire.
Good luck.

It is much easier and cheaper in the States to acquire the [a href="http://greenstuffindustries.blogspot.com">Green Stuff Industries Tentacle Maker. I ordered the full set last month and I think I got it in about four days.

You can also pick up an assorted package of plasticard siding that is made for model builders. Same principle, easy to source and procure...cheaper than dirt (especially if you can beg some scraps from someone who has left over bits).

I'm a new here but I thought I would share that I have done this by simply rolling a thin green stuff snake over a flat, fine toothed comb.

One thing to remember with guitar strings- use wire cutters to cut them, if you use the flush cutters you use to clip sprue you'll ruin them.

Guitar wire is super cheap to buy, and, with a wire cutter, easy to cut, and, with a pair of pliers, reasonably easy to work with.

Just a heads up, though, it's steel wire. It bends less like a spring or a slinkey and more like... a steel wire. Really, it's only going to bend with a pair of pliers. You've got to bend the wire into shape first and then glue it down, rather than putting down one end and then bending it, and then gluing down the other.

Thought I'd share my youtube video on making your own cables itty with just thin hobby wire you can get from a craft store or even wires from an old cat5 cable. Hope this helps....