Any suggestions on what to use for the electrical wiring on a 1/72nd scale armor piece? #:-)

How bout some electrical wiring?!
Get some realyl fine copper wire, or find an electrical wiring with small strands in them. If none of these are small enough, try horse hair, putty, long static grass, etc. might just work for you.

If you cut open a speaker wire's rubber sleeve there are a bunch of tiny tiny wires woven together, I use them for making smal tie-down, and small wiring and things. Since I work in a company that makes audio equipment, so I have access to a lot of speaker wires, if you want any, drop me a note, I can send some to you by mail.

Some guys ask their wife for a small contribution : a few long hair...
The problem is that it's "shape" depends a lot on air moisture.

Thank you very much to everyone for giving me these great suggestions I will try them out.

I "lighted" a chopper that I built with an LED in the cockpit and replaced the two outside red beacon lights with tiny LEDS.

Anyway, I had to feed the power to the cockpit for a short run along the outside of the fuselage. I used "wire wrapping" wire which I got at Radio Shack. It is very small gauge and insulated. I got the white color. I twisted the two strands together and then painted it the olive drab color of the chopper body. It came out looking great. Not a true to life detail of the real chopper, but looks pretty cool anyway.

I don't know if your application calls for insulated wire, but if it does, I would check out wire wrapping wire. You can paint it to suit your needs. (note, the wire itself, inside the insulation, is silver)

- MonkeyBoy

Hey Monkeyboy,
So if I understand you correctly this stuff you are talking about is called Wire Wrapping Wire?? You can get it from Radio Shack, correct? What is it used for, just in case someone asks me? Thanks

Wolf-leader,

The wire is commonly called "Wire wrap wire". The reason it's called this is because the way it is used for building electronic circuits. Instead of soldering, this wire is stripped of about 1/2 inch of insulation and wrapped tightly around special metal pins (about 1" long) attached to the circuit board. A special tool is used to perform this. (I used to do quite a bit of this, by the way.)

I believe the wire is 32 gauge (typically) and has a very thin, yet durable insulation available in a variety of colors. The conductor itself is a silver color and is a single strand (i.e. not braided). Also, due to way it is used (being wrapped very tightly) it is pretty durable as well. Of course it has its limits and will eventually break if twisted back and forth too many times.

I'm pretty certain Radio Shack still stocks it.

I hope that helps. If there's anything else you need let me know.

- MonkeyBoy