Necessity is the mother of invention. While its doubtful I’m the first to pull this off, its new to me.
I have a 48 scale ejection seat pair and a hand not steady enough to paint those very fine swirling lines of black and yellow on the oh crud straps.
I took some heavy thread that I had sitting around, and pulled off a couple of 2 foot lengths. I put a couple of drops of acrylic yellow on a piece of scrap cardboard and drug one through it, using my finger tip to hold it down and act as a kind of squeegee. Did the same in black to the other. Let them dry. Tied one end together and split them over a small nail in the workbench.
Spin, spin, spin, when it was about ready to coil up on itself, I pinched the free end in a pair of vise grips and laid them down to keep the tension on. Brushed 3 coats of waterborne lacquer onto the threads to stiffen them up a bit.
Now frankly, at this point, I’m saying to myself, naw . . . . this aint gonna work. But . . .
Took a q tip which was just about the perfect diameter and cut the working ends off. Wrapped a loop in the string around the shaft and sealed the intersecton with a tiny drop of CA. Used the broad side of an xacto to work it off the qtip (they’re a little waxy)
I’ll be durned. It worked. A little trim and CA them to the seat and I’ll be in biz.