How to stop the Sharpie's ink to emerge from under?

[G_Marcat_Italy]

I have made a stupid mistake: I have used a Sharpie permanent marker pen to mark the location of some pieces of stretched sprue.

Now, after that I have painted the area in gloss white, the black ink from the sharpie is emerged in certain areas there are these little signs that dirt the white.

What can I do now?

To strip away all the paint?

Is there a way to cover permanently the Sharpie's ink?

[SBARC]

Was the white paint acrylic or oil based? With house paint.....ink from markers will always bleed through water based paints but the marker ink can't bleed through opil based paints.

Steve B

[kenlilly106]

Sharpie black ink will bleed through flat enamel paint if you Future it. Found this out the hard way.

Ken

[CraigSargent]

Sorry, only one way to stop Sharpies from bleeding - don't use them in the first place. Maybe that should be a sticky. Not sure who the rocket scientist was who first came up with this tip, but Sharpies bleed through pretty much everything.

[Old Man]

You really cannot, Sir.

But if your finish is gloss white, you might try putting little patches of white decal film over the affected areas, which sound by your description to be pretty small. The film would provide a barrier, I expect, and would disappear into your finish with a bit of gloss coat.

[Huey Gunner]

Sorry, only one way to stop Sharpies from bleeding - don't use them in the first place. Maybe that should be a sticky. Not sure who the rocket scientist was who first came up with this tip, but Sharpies bleed through pretty much everything.

10-4 on that. When they say"Permanent Marker", they not be-s'n!! I use a silver color sharpie on seams to find imperfections with my putty jobs. I dont even have a black one near my bench.

[MAG One]

There is one way to seal that Sharpie. Shellac will seal the marks and can be covered with acrylic paint.

Gary

[G_Marcat_Italy]

There is one way to seal that Sharpie. Shellac will seal the marks and can be covered with acrylic paint.

Gary

Are You speaking of a product like this?

Substantially a wood sealer.

I will try.

[StrikeEagle]

I have made a stupid mistake: I have used a Sharpie permanent marker pen to mark the location of some pieces of stretched sprue.

Now, after that I have painted the area in gloss white, the black ink from the sharpie is emerged in certain areas there are these little signs that dirt the white.

What can I do now?

To strip away all the paint?

Is there a way to cover permanently the Sharpie's ink?

If you strip the paint from the offending area, you should be able to remove most, if not all, of the sharpie from the plastic with rubbing alcohol and a cotton bud.

I'd be a little concerned about shellac being too 'hot' and softening the plastic of the model.

Best of luck with whatever method you select.

[rjwood_uk]

just to add that i found out the hard way that sharpies also bleed through tamiyas "AS" laquer spray range!!!

Edited October 11, 2007 by rjwood_uk

[Steve Filak]

I've pretty much given up on using Sharpies for anything model-related, and that includes the red striping around gear doors on Navy aircraft. However, I still find technical pens to be extremely useful for cleaning up blurbs in cockpits, and this is really the only application that I use them for in modeling.

As to the current problem, I hate to say it, but it sounds as though the best solution in this case is a little spot sanding, followed by a fresh application of white.

[Hawk10]

Couple of things

1. Back when I was working on spray aircraft, we often had problems w/colors bleeding thru lighter colors (especially reds through whites). What worked for us was to spray a coat of flat black over the area before applying the white coat.

2. Permanent Sharpie/MarksAlot ink can be removed from a smooth plastic by wiping w/a rag dipped in rubbing alcohol. When I was in the Guard, we used permanent Sharpies of various colors to mark data on our TAC maps in the Tactical Operations Center. The maps were covered in acetate and when changes were required, out came the alcohol rags - we also discovered that the longer the sharpie ink remained on the acetate, the harder it was to remove (a week or longer usually).