Rigging for 1/144 or 1/125 USN ships?

Thanks for the suggestions!

Count me among the group--I, occasionally, can make one piece of stretched sprue look good.

Trouble is, you need three identical per flag bag alone (and, somewhere around 1/96, that ought to be pairs of lines for signal hoists).

At 1/144, that 3mil is very close to 1/2" diameter--which is going to be a good all-around size.

I have usually used nylon monofilament for most of my ship rigging of modern warships regardless of scale. I do use regular thread for really large scale sailing vessels, even some 1:150 scale, but wound  thread is just too big for the modern warships.  I use two monofilament sizes, 7 mil and 3 mil.  The 7 mil stuff is a smoke colored that looks fine.  The 3 mil (the fly tying thread) is white, but in that size it is too small to see the color well anyways, else I would like a smoke color on that.  The smoke color looks basically like a dark to medium gray.

In spite of having made ship models for about sixty years I have never been able to make stretched sprue look right either.

I have used this stuff for rigging on a 1/350 battleship and 1/144 subs.Looks fine in both scales.