[modeleng] Re: Pins-striping tool

When I made my model of a British Beam engine, I used my drafting pin and 
India Ink to put  pin-striping on the wheel spokes.  The ink worked very 
well and is of course water proof so it is still in place after several runs 
under steam at the Adams, TN show.

Jesse, (he of the hard head)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Wade" <hww@xxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:05 AM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Pins-striping tool


>I saw this also, the moment they appeared on the market, and I wondered how 
>they could be successful.  I too spent many years pushing technical 
>drafting pens (such as Rapidograph, K&E LeRoi, Staedtler) around sheets of 
>vellum and although they were a godsend when compared to bow pens (which I 
>am also old enough to have used) they were not without their problems, 
>principally caused by contaminated or dried ink.  Relative humidity and 
>barometric pressure could adversely affect their operation and in any case 
>at least a couple of hours a week needed to be spent in maintenance to 
>produce consistent and trouble-free performance.
>
> Drafting ink and paint are dramatically different animals so far as 
> density and viscosity and it's always been my thought that "paint" simply 
> wouldn't work in a technical pen unless the paint was thinned to the point 
> of being ineffective, or some substantial alteration had been made to the 
> pen to allow it to function with the much heavier liquid.  Since 
> apparently the Moore pens do work (or they continue to sell without public 
> complaint) I have to assume they have been altered in some way from their 
> ink pen cousins.  Whether or not any of the above mfgs still produce 
> drafting pens I don't know.  I still have a box-full of pens and 
> replacement nibs . . . maybe someday I'll give them a try with lining 
> paints, but franbkly I am more likely to go back to the bow pen for this 
> as I know that will work.
>
> Regards,
> Harry Wade

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