Has anyone used the micron pens with brush tip for repaints? Say overpainting the A-wings standard mini red with green to make Green Squadron. Would that work straight away, or would the original paint have to be stripped first then repainted with "real" paint?

I'm sure many here would love to hear from anyone who has experience with the micron pens. I'm very interested in the paint tip ones.

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Not sure what you're saying I don't know what a micron pen is but I do know that I haven't stripped any ships pre-painting. I've even used automotive (halfords) plastic primer over the original paint on my slave 1 and there was no loss of definition.

i used a blue micron (the 0.05 one in the picture) ink pen to scribble some blue on the x wing's R2 unit. it's looks passable, but it might be hard to cover a lot of space evenly with it. The brush tips may work a little better though.
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Ah, that's a micron pen

I'm gonna say no, paint, detail brush, job done. I imagine you'll get better coverage from an acrylic model paint. The right tool for the job, as it was.

You do this for writing letters or creating lines, not doing surfaces. Paint pens won't coat evenly and look funny.

I repainted all of my A-Wings with Testor's Flat Green right over the old paint and they came out just fine.

I have done a lot of non xwing painting and I can tell you a steady hand and a testers 0/0 brush will work well for xwing painting. The micron pen would better for numbering or lettering your ships. Say for instance you wanted Name your falcon the the micon pen would do nicely. As someone has painted formula d cars it's not about fine detail painting at that level. It's about clean painting in such a way that suggests what you want the eye to see. The the viewers brain will do the hard work for you.

The best results are from using paints (citadel, testors, tamiya, etc) and using super fine microns for some sort of highlights... the big catch is to make sure you seal the whole thing when done otherwise they can wipe off. Dullkote is my go-to.

I'm not claiming to be a fantastic artist myself, but my mate has shown me all kinds of pointers and his WH40K stuff is fantastic.

I can see you spending a long time on your models with these pens, and I think the end results will be less than satisfactory. Also wondering how 'permanent' the paint is in these pens. You might find it will rub off with handling the models and you'll be touching up often. Use proper model paint from a model store. If you're unsure about it, go and see you local model store and ask them for recommendations. They're usually pretty helpful.