What else besides chrome markers?

[Jon Cole]

With the Molotow Chrome pen being so popular, I keep looking in Hobby Lobby to see what else they have for paint markers. Tho I  have no use for a white pen, they do have this. Anyone try these? 

[DrKerry]

I use silver Sharpie Markers for trim that I do. Not sure what else. I also use Sharpie Markers in different colors for touch up and coloring various parts too!!!

[Mike999]

I did the thin brown separation lines between the camouflage colors here with a Sharpie marker.  This is a 1/35 scale Skoda PA-II armored car. A few more pix of it are in "All the Rest."

 

[Deathgoblin]

When I picked up my chrome pen, the guy at the hobby shop also mentioned that Molotow makes a masking pen.  Marker/pen filled with liquid masking agent.  That's my next purchase.  

[BigTallDad]

That's an opaque pen, which would probably allow the cover underneath to show through (somewhat). So much for whitewalls.

[Jon Haigwood]

When I picked up my chrome pen, the guy at the hobby shop also mentioned that Molotow makes a masking pen.  Marker/pen filled with liquid masking agent.  That's my next purchase.  

I tried this pen out by applying the mask and after it dried cutting a straight edge with a exacto knife (new blade) and it just ripped .  

[Snake45]

In the same HL aisle as the Molotow, I found a Pentel silver gel pen with a very fine point that is working amazingly well for small details like nameplates. I didn't think it would lay down and stick to plastic or polished enamel, but it does.

In the same aisle was a fine-point Pentel black gel pen that turns out to be absolutely perfect for doing the slots in Chevy Rally Wheels. Again, it lays down on everything including chrome plate.  I'm sure I'll find dozens more uses for it, too. Where has this thing been all my life?

Of course I'm almost notorious around here for my unabashed love of the Silver Sharpie. I bought two more of them at Walmart yesterday. I'm building up a nice stash/reserve of the things. They don't last forever, and I live in fear that someday they'll discontinue them, at which point I would have to give up car modeling and go back to airplanes.

Edited July 30, 2017 by Snake45

[1930fordpickup]

Good point about the sharpie markers, remember it is back to school time here so they are on sale. 

[Foxer]

I haven't tried a paint marker for white, but I used a Gelly Roll gell pen to do the raised piping on a black rubber seat and the coverage was spectacular. These are now my go-to for white pen on anything. The one I have is marked 08 for tip size while the link I gave is a MED point. Not sure of the difference. Mine looks like the point on that paint pen you showed.

 seem to have missplaced photos I took of the seats, sorry about that, but these are by far the best white markers I have encountered.

Edited July 30, 2017 by Foxer

[samdiego]

I just picked up a bottle of the old standard Testors Chrome. The must have done some work on the formula. It's way chromier than I remember.

[shucky]

I second the use of the "Gelly Roll" gell pen. Good stuff and they have lots of colors to boot. I found myself buying all sorts of color pencils, markers, paint pens, etc. They come in very handy when detailing an interior, chassis, or anywhere really that you wish to add some fine or hard to paint details. 

[retired & glad]

I tried this pen out by applying the mask and after it dried cutting a straight edge with a exacto knife (new blade) and it just ripped .  

I've had the masking one for a good year and really don' t like it. My hands are not that steady and precise anymore so I usually make a big mess when trying to use it.

[Jon Cole]

I have wasted so much on gel pens over the years. They just don't function. Nothing I do can get them to leave a mark, be it on plastic, or paper.
The silver Sharpie markers are ink, not paint. I find them to not cover well. Very translucent.
For chrome, nothing seems to top the Molotow Chrome pen.
The fine point paint marker shown at the top looks interesting. 
 

[BigTallDad]

On 7/29/2017 at 10:44 PM, Jon Cole said:

With the Molotow Chrome pen being so popular, I keep looking in Hobby Lobby to see what else they have for paint markers. Tho I  have no use for a white pen, they do have this. Anyone try these? 

 

It says it is a paint marker; does the packaging indicate what kind of paint (oil based or acrylic)? Depending on the type of paint, white-wall tires or raised letters/numbers on tires come to mind.

Edited April 2, 2018 by BigTallDad

[Snake45]

1 hour ago, Jon Cole said:

The silver Sharpie markers are ink, not paint. I find them to not cover well. Very translucent.
 

They seem more like paint than ink to me. And yes they can take two or three coats to cover well. But it dries so fast, by the time you get to the end of a line, you can go right back and lay the second coat on--no waiting for drying. 

Oh, they DO get more "translucent" when they're running out. That's how you know it's time to bust a fresh one loose!