here you go and enjoy

best regards

georges

Good review, although the scan is not representative of MB Racing Green (at least on my monitor).

Nor on mine.

It looks representative on mine monitor- but only for a pen that writes pretty dry. In most of the pens I've tried it in it writes a much darker color, with the green being more evident, and less gray. But in the dry pens, it becomes a somewhat boring gray-green color, which is what I see in the scan.

Haven't used it in multiple pens to test the wet/dry pen comparison, but it's considerably darker in my Lamy Safari.

Thanks for the review, of course. Scans are always tricky, I suppose.

This is my experience with MB Racing Green...
Just to say that I was dissapointed by a finally dull looking result

I also tried this ink for a while. If you are writing only a word or two, the green hardly shows and it appears black. But if you write a few lines of text, they look darkly greenish. I quite liked that effect!
I didn't have problems with the flow.
I've returned to blue at the moment, but the racing green is IMO definitely a keeper.

My major snafu with this ink, as others have mentioned, is that the green is just too subdued (and I have a very wet writer). Unless one is under intense lighting (and I mean, literally, right under a fluoro or HID, or the sun), it comes off as black, or black with a touch of green; more like a black that leans green than a green that leans black, in less than perfect lighting.

Soooo, I'm giving Diamine Umber and Herbin Vert Empire a whirl via the sample program. I want something that is certainly green under any lighting, but at the same time doesn't jump off the page and assault one's sensibilities.

I have problems with the flow. Similar to Pelikan Blue-Black, but without the squeakiness of Pelikan BB. Hard starting, especially in italics and obliques, which all seem to have tines with wider spacing.

Oddly enough, I can see the green a lot more in dryer pens, where it's a uniform and boring grey-green rather like Noodler's Zhivago.

Insulting inks are a bloody shame.

Insulting inks?

Nevermind, long story.

I just tried this in an Esterbrook w/ a 2284 nib- an Autograph Stub (double broad, broad++), which is wide and quite wet. It comes out very green and has decent shading, both on Clairefontaine and the absorbent Ampad I tried. The black seems to only come out in wet, fine and precise nibs- my MB 344 w/ OM nib looks much closer to black, with green only apparent in the lighter parts of the stroke, or while flex is going on.

Fun fun!

Your scan does look washed out on my monitor, too. Nonetheless, I like this ink so much that I already bought a second bottle. It is well behaved in both a MB 149 with M nib and a Sailor 1911 in F and on my regular paper and notebooks.

The only other MB ink that gets regular use here is the Bordeaux my wife likes.

Bill

I was just at MB Boutique this weekend, to pick up that ink. The saleswoman shook the bottle and swabbed it on paper. We all agreed, it looked disappointingly washed out, almost gray. I was hoping for something vibrant, like their Violet, one of my favs.

Something to bear in mind is that I've witnessed some variability among MB inks. I replaced a bottle of their Bordeaux and the replacement was significantly more washed-out. I contacted them and they offered a replacement. I opted for a different color just to be safe.