Paint Pens (Water Based Acrylic)

[cmason]

So one of my daughters recently got some new pens for drawing art - and it seems to be a new technology ( for me at least ) - a water based acrylic paint in a pen - POSCA brand from Mitsubishi Pencil.

https://www.posca.com/en/discover-posca/the-tool/

Available in a wide range of colors and tip sizes. At first they look like marker pens but as far as I can tell they are actually delivering paint.

Wondering if anybody else has tried using these in their model making?

[njee20]

Yes, been using them for years on fine details and they're brilliant.

[Steven B]

They work well - the white one is my go-to for adding the white handles to brake levers for example.

I also mark the underside of my stock with a colour code so that a. I know it's mine, and b. I can make sure trains are formed correctly.


SB.

[Firstone18]

I've been using these for around a year now, much easier to highlight fine detail that a brush for me! I think there are also some translucent colour pens around which are good for reducing LED brightness, and altering colour. I have some Staedler pens which were for overhead transparency marking, but are very useful for altering LED intensity and colour.

[cmason]

Great to know I am not the first on this!

[class8mikado]

Who stocks them ?

[Steven B]

I got mine from Hobbycraft. You'll find them in art shops or the likes of Amazon and eBay.

SB

[njee20]

Yeah I tend to get them from Amazon. I find the ultra fine most useful, but some of the bullet tip ones are good too.

[Stuarted]

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread. I have been to Hobbycraft and bought myself a couple. Stuart

[RBTKraisee]

Piques my curiosity - can anyone show examples of what they've done with these?

Ross.

[Adam1701D]

I am also intrigued by these - are they fine enough to handle lining?

[njee20]

I am also intrigued by these - are they fine enough to handle lining?

On stock not really, they're ~1mm. I've used them for first class stripes on mk3s.

I did do the cantrail stripe on this with them, which now I look at it as the focus of the photo looks a bit shoddy! Likewise the door runners and buttons





Otherwise I just use them for all the tiny details - handbrake levers, axle boxes, springs etc, where they're just super convenient to grab, and because they're stiff, unlike a brush, they make it very easy to highlight raised detail.