Those little black lines

The ejection seat releases are typically yellow and black. Paint the entire release yellow first (you'll never get yellow to cover black but black will cover yellow). There are numerous ways to do the stripes. Thin strips of masking tape over the yellow you want to keep, a very fine paint brush, or just a black Sharpie marker work very well.

thanks, I heard somewhere you could use a fine copper wire dipped in black as a brush too.

I've used toothpicks before so I guess a piece of wire would work to. They don't hold much paint though!

- You can use a red/yellow striped thread instead of the kit part

or

- You can paint the part yellow first, then use a fine-tipped black marker for the stripes

hi new boy here from over the pond iv'e heard this works well.

take two coton or silk threads cote then in "clear"
allow to dry over night, then twist then together to get what you guy's call "candy stripe" cote this again in "clear" and keep under tension to dry. when dry cut your required length loop over and then glue. tricky but can be done.

hope this helps.

Don't you end up with a "hairy" release lever?

the "klear" should keep them from getting hairy!
but i've not tryed it my self yet.

Here's a tip I use for larger scale stuff...

I get telephone wire...the 4 conductor type with the solid wire core....I take the yellow and black wires and cut them into small sections, and using a pair of tweezers and a piece of brass wire, I push the little piece of copper out of the middle. I then re-thread them onto a piece of brass wire and touch them with superglue. The result is a perfect demarcation line between the colors. I do this with arrestor hooks (when applicable) using larger wire. Once it's dullcoted you can't tell the difference.

I'm pretty sure you can find wire with colored jackets that would be small enough to use with 48th scale...

Jeff