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Fuse for cherry bomb seeking advice.

Greetings,

I was wondering if anyone out there could give me some tips on making a fuse for a cherry bomb model I am doing.
I have tried using the cylinder 3d tool and masking out alternate columns. I tried doing a deformation twist and then deflating. Unfortunately when I when turn this into a polymesh I don’t have a very convincing spiral deformation in the polymesh. I have also tried saving the alpha from the masking menu and then applying to the polymesh, still nothing very convincing. What I am trying to get is good clean deformation spiraling around the fuse. Can’t seem to get what I want.

Thanks for any advice in advance:)