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Hey guys back to warhmammer after about 5 years away painting necrons every video ive seen people speak of oil pens for the highlighting on the edges im not sure what kind to get could some please help thanks

I dont know anything about oil pens and i know lot about painting...
However there Are specific pens called micron pens

http://www.amazon.de/Sakura-Micron-Pen/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ASakura%20Micron%20Pen

Very good for highlighting

thanks what tip size do you think would be the best im using it for ghost ark

You can also get, if you want something even smaller than the micron-pen, something called a "Rapidiograph."

The micron-pen will only get lines down to around .25mm.

The Rapidiograph can get lines down to .08mm (⅓ the size of the Micron-pen).

The Rapidiograph can be freakishly difficult to use, though, and using any color other than black ink can create all manner of issues (I did a lot of white runes on my Orc Shields, and wound up going through three nibs - at $40 a piece).

But they are an absolute marvel at doing things like pupils, where you can easily do asymmetric pupils, that you do not need to go back in to add highlights to the eyes with.

Or... If you use the white ink, you can use them to do the highlights on eyes. But' as I mentioned, beware working with white ink. You will have a very short period of time the nib will be viable before needing to clean it, and if you exceed that time, you will trash the nib.

MB

Their are pens at places like Michael's Crafts store (north america) that are Oil paint pens.


http://www.michaels.com/sharpie-oil-based-paint-markers-medium-point-fashion-set/10293409.html#q=Oil+Pens&start=2


here is some on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Sharpie-Paint-Marker-Point-Based/dp/B005QEZ9YW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1432502745&sr=8-2&keywords=Oil+Paint+markers

Blimey. Never heard of them. How opaque are they? How thinly or thick do they apply? How quickly do they dry? What's the practical difference to acrylic pens and markers?

The oil pens above are somewhat translucent.

I used to use them on robot miniatures in the early 1990's. I would paint a silver or gold base, and then go over it with the pen.

And then, once the pen color was dried, I would do a wash for shading, and wipe the wash off the high spots with a cotton cloth (the acrylic paint came off like loose dust).

The opacity varies with color. I found reds and Browns to be the most opaque, with blacks and blues to be the least (with a few exceptions).

Their drying times were in the half-hours to be dry to a light touch, but AT LEAST 24-hrs to be completely dried. But I did have a couple that needed extra time, as they would get smudgy when I wiped off the wash (and one color was still soft under the top, and got wrinkly).

But I imagine they would have been good for all kinds of effects if I had kept using them.

The problem was that they were so large that using them on any details was very difficult.

MB

I agree with BeAfraid, though some other companies have Extra Fine tip ones (for more money).

dralend wrote:
I agree with BeAfraid, though some other companies have Extra Fine tip ones (for more money).

I will have to check out the extra-fine tipped ones, because they did not make those in the 80s/90s.

And they are rather good for doing certain kinds of details.

MB

I have some 0.03mm micron pens, they are awesome for writing text on purity seals and such. I never thought of them for Edge highlighting, side of a brush seems so much easier

I know some People like to use fine acrylic markers for edge highlighting. For example, the 2 mm and 0.7 mm acrylic markers from Montana. Some mix their own Highlight Colors in the empty markers.

http://www.montana-cans.com/products/Marker_Inks/Montana_ACRYLIC_Marker_Paint/36

I've tried it once and didn't find it easier than using a brush, but some say with practice it gets better and speeds up the highlighting process bigtime when batch painting.

Coo, didn't realise Montana did all that range of stuff.

I've never paid much attention to paint markers before, but I was given a free sample of the Liquitex variety in an art shop. I was fairly impressed by the opaque, but thin and even layer it created, which might possibly be useful for minis. I'm not sure. It's a big, chunky, chisel marker, although the firm sharp edges on that might offer an alternative to the side of a brush or fine tips.