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Does anyone know any easy methods to make the little lines on SM's that are prayers? I want to put some on my army but am scared to try o.o

http://www.shopatron.com/products/productdetail/Pigma+Micron+005,+fine+point+pen,.20+mm+-++BLACK+ink/part_number=XSDK005-49/294.0.1.1.0.0.0.0.0?


005 micron pen.

The small pens do help, I have some proper refillable drafting/graphic artist pens that are excellent for that.
Though, I also have to do white on black so the long but tiny point brush always works (needs to be long to keep a reservoir of paint).
The method is make a fancy tiny letter to start off then tiny squiggles or I found if you are careful, many tiny vertical lines in groups for words.
Making columns and obvious paragraph structures make it look all the more real.
See below as some examples, I am no expert by any means but looks good for gaming purposes.
Hope this helps.
See picture below:

Pens are a great idea....I usually get a very fine tipped brush and drink coffee till i get the shakes...then attempt to draw straight lines.

Doing the simulated script on light colors with dark lettering is easy with the micron pens, I've used them for about 9 or 10 years.

But, doing script on dark colors like black, means getting a very fine tipped brush and using paint, since theres not really any 'white' markers that actually work.

Now the micron pens are actually ink pens. Has anyone tried actual paint pens?

Example:
http://www.krylon.com/products/short_cuts_hobbycraft_paint_pens/
http://www.sharpie.com/enUS/Product/Sharpie_Water-Based_Paint_Marker_Extra_Fine.html
http://www.sharpie.com/enUS/Product/Sharpie_Oil-Based_Paint_Marker_Extra_Fine.html

I would be careful of the "water proof" or oil based paint pens.

Hard to paint over if you make an error and may get unexpected results if you clear coat your model.

I found that the ink pens you MUST allow for a good dry time, I had an unfortunate moment clear coating that looked like mascara running on a woman... looked equally tragic.

Talizvar wrote:I would be careful of the "water proof" or oil based paint pens.

Hard to paint over if you make an error and may get unexpected results if you clear coat your model.

I found that the ink pens you MUST allow for a good dry time, I had an unfortunate moment clear coating that looked like mascara running on a woman... looked equally tragic.

Sounds more like you should be saying "be careful clear coating your models or painting over clear coat" ? I don't necessarily see how that necessarily had to do with the pens themselves.

Thanks for the help guys ill try some of these out

EDIT:wow dude sweet templars O.o I bow to you

Halsfield wrote:

Talizvar wrote:I would be careful of the "water proof" or oil based paint pens.

Hard to paint over if you make an error and may get unexpected results if you clear coat your model.

I found that the ink pens you MUST allow for a good dry time, I had an unfortunate moment clear coating that looked like mascara running on a woman... looked equally tragic.

Sounds more like you should be saying "be careful clear coating your models or painting over clear coat" ? I don't necessarily see how that necessarily had to do with the pens themselves.

The third line was in addition to the above comment I guess to say that the ink pens are not perfect either (let the ink dry very well before clear coat).

I have had the odd paints beading off the oil pens so I moved away from those in a hurry and just wanted to point out that problem, if you are careful it does not disallow their use.

All materials we work with have some gotcha properties. For example I am still trying to get GW to tell me what paints have "Chromium" in it because it is deadly bad if used in air brushes.

Vorlon wrote:Pens are a great idea....I usually get a very fine tipped brush and drink coffee till i get the shakes...then attempt to draw straight lines.

I tried "Red Bull" and figured out if I wanted Orc graffiti I had nailed it...

+1 for Micron pens. Also, hooray for having an artistically inclined girlfriend. If I hadn't had hers laying around to gank and test out, there's no telling how long it would've taken me to get one, try it, then get even more in various sizes.