After viewing Rod's great tut on making wires, I was reminded of another tutorial I saw someplace. I'll have to look for it again and I'll post it whenever I find it.

I'm also looking for another one at the moment cuz I used three different methods to make the pic below.

Very nice Drac

That turned out pretty good.
Nice job and thanks for sharing it.

The conduit is especially lifelike!

That top layer of armored cable (BX cable) looks really good.

I hope you find the tutorial - I'm interesting in seeing it.

Found it! Thanks for the comments guys.

http://thinkmoult.com/2010/09/27/the-gi ... -tutorial/

I think the tutorial was made in an earlier version of GIMP because of the way the lines were done to make the segments. The way I did the lines was Filters>Render>
Patterns>Grid and just set the vertical to 0 and adjusted the line spacing and line thickness. Made it really simple, otherwise a fairly easy tut to follow.

Yes, I was trying to make the cable look like MC cable but you are right. MC has a full sized ground wire and even BX has a small aluminum drain wire. I may have to make a couple of small changes to the pic. I was thinking that the composition could use something like some corroded metal gears here and there to give it more of an industrial feel.

I made a set of open circle brushes, some feathered on the inside, to stroke a path and just experimented to make the cable. Due to the multiplication effect of the circle brush, I got this really dark edge so to remove it, all I had to do was adjust the brush just a tad bigger than I needed and then do an alpha to selection/shrink/delete to make it look right.