After many ways of attempting aerials for your kits, stretched sprue, mono-filament, etc. Camogirl has found another one you may want to try: Human hair she has lengths of it in abundance in her hairbrush, its easy to work with, fine yet strong and looks great on the 1/48 plane she finished today once it was painted black and varnished. I'll let you know if there are any future problems with it but it's working a treat so far. Give it a try you may be as surprised as I was.

Hi Allen,
I have already used human hair for rigging my battleship and a year or so later there still doesn't seem to be any problems with it (apart from my daughter still moaning about the time I plucked her head ).
As you stated it is very strong, so strong in fact that when I dropped the ship not one hair broke or came away from any points it was attached, the rest of the ship and the sea base was in bits though .
Before

After

Its fixed again now.
Andy

I've been using hairs from a novelty wig for a while. While thicker than genuine human hair, I feel it really hits the spot in 1:48 and 1:72 scales.
You don't need a "real" expensive wig, a cheap or novelty-kind will do just fine. In fact, I suspect the proper hair prosthesis will have too fine fibers for modeling use.
The hairs I'm using are from a wig that came with a mannequin doll my sister bought for her garment display purposes. The hair on the wig barely passed for human hair, but are really handy for aerial wires.