EFNIR: Diamine Winter Miracle

[LizEF]

Extra Fine Nib Ink Review: Diamine Winter Miracle

This is review #332 in my series. Here's the YouTube video:

Post-recording notes: This ink was gifted to me by a generous FPNer.  It's a super-sheener. The color is pretty close to Diamine Amethyst, but much darker, and with sheen.  Otherwise, I really didn't have a similar color - the swatches at the start were as close as I could get.

Cleaning was easy with plain water, but the ink is *really* concentrate - expect to do many extra flushes.  I don't think anything stained, but when I look at the section in room light, it seems slightly purple.  If I hold it up and look through it at a window (where it's sunny outside, but the sun isn't shining directly on the window), it looks clear as can be. No idea what to make of that.

Errata: There's an ending parethesis missing - I'll let you locate it. Accidentally left a little out of the story. Decided to leave it in on my website.

Zoomed in photo (This is what I see when the light is straight on to the page - no sheen, no purple, black with a vague hint of grey/green/gold.)

Screenshot (Looks about right.  You can see sheen at the top of the page and the lower right of the Subjective Analysis block.)

Scan of Completed Review (The smudge might need to be a little more to the red side of purple, but not much.)

Absorbent Paper Close-up (top is puzzle paper like thick newsprint, bottom is old 20lb copy paper) (These show glitter specs. Reality shows a tiny bit more purple than these, but not much.)

Line width (The "I" in "Ink:". Magnification is 100x. The grid is 100x100µm. The scale is 330µm, with eleven divisions of 30µm each. The line width for this ink is roughly 292µm. With 332 inks measured, the average line width is 297µm.) (Ink is really opaque! A little sheen can be seen.)

Microscope image (Color's not quite right. The red dots are hot pink to my eyes, and the hexagon shape is easier to see. The purple is off - too blue, I think.)

Shimmer & Sheen (Can't see them at the same time. My sample may have had a lower than normal quantity of shimmer.)

Previous Review: KWZ Azure #5.

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Hope you enjoy. Comments appreciated!

[lapis]

Interesting! How would you compare it with Eclipse (apart from the sheen)?

[yazeh]

Anoter miraculos review @LizEF  Apparently it belonged to Inkvent 2019 and is now part of the Blue collection according to the mountain of ink. 

Color is intriguing and that greenish tinge has the aura of mystery. 

I'm glad that Essri scribing is with this ink. it has that magical, miracle feel to it. 

Looking forward to see what they have to run from / to / for.

Thanks for bringing magic to this greyish,  vaguely snowy spring day 🙏🙏🙏

[Sailor Kenshin]

Cool name!  Everything but the kitchen sink seems to be the call here.  It's black, it's green, it's glittery, it's poiple, it groans as you write... and it's also a coral-sea explosion.

 

I have nothing like it.  Thanks for revealing its magic to us all.

 

Awwww!  The image of Essri writing with his tail makes me grin.  

@LizEF, the story's getting hot again.  Run!  

 

What I can't do: everything at once.  OR even type.  But... 🤣

Thanks again for the review and story!
 

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, lapis said:

Interesting! How would you compare it with Eclipse (apart from the sheen)?

It doesn't appear that I have or have had Eclipse (these days, I have to search the database rather than my memory).  From pictures on the interwebs, Eclipse looks a lot bluer.  It's possible both will look almost black from a Japanese EF, though.

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Anoter miraculos review @LizEF 

Thanks!

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Apparently it belonged to Inkvent 2019 and is now part of the Blue collection according to the mountain of ink. 

Yes.  I'm glad they turn the Inkvent colors into regularly available inks - it would stink for all of them to disappear.

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Color is intriguing and that greenish tinge has the aura of mystery. 

It would be more interesting from a wider, dryish nib, where you could see the ink color... This one's too dark for such a fine nib.

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

I'm glad that Essri scribing is with this ink. it has that magical, miracle feel to it. 

Yes, good color for Essri - goes well with his green.

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Looking forward to see what they have to run from / to / for.

Thanks!

 

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Thanks for bringing magic to this greyish,  vaguely snowy spring day 🙏🙏🙏

You're most welcome!

[LizEF]

38 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Cool name!  Everything but the kitchen sink seems to be the call here.  It's black, it's green, it's glittery, it's poiple, it groans as you write... and it's also a coral-sea explosion.

Indeed!  They threw all their inky options into this ink - well, I guess not "chameleon" / chromashading, but everything else.

 

39 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

I have nothing like it.  Thanks for revealing its magic to us all.

You're most welcome.

 

39 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Awwww!  The image of Essri writing with his tail makes me grin.  

@LizEF, the story's getting hot again.  Run!  

🐍

 

40 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

What I can't do: everything at once.  OR even type.  But... 🤣

 

40 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Thanks again for the review and story!

You're most welcome!

[InesF]

Some inks are really ment to be watched with a microscope!

 

Thank you, @LizEF, for the word "run!", for this ink review, for doing the glittery magnification with sheen photo although it can't be done and for the Seventies Magma Lamp microscopy! 

 

Ahh, how I love being back ...  

 

The deep dark purple ink with golden-green sheen seems to be not that uncommon and most of them, at least among my ink collection, have low surface tension - allowing to be used with only the driest or EF nibs. But, at least, they can be used and they all look great - to my eyes.  

 

Looking forward to Wednesday!  

[Lithium466]

Thank you @LizEF for that review

 And interesting ink for sure. The amount of blue glitter in my bottle was kind of low, but I don't know if that's the norm or just luck of the draw.

 

I had some "nib dry out when pausing too long" issues with this one, like with practically all the super sheener. Relatively thin lines (being generous, under the average) and that is interesting for a (probably) on the low surface tension side ink. Nicely done.

[LizEF]

7 hours ago, InesF said:

Some inks are really ment to be watched with a microscope!

 

7 hours ago, InesF said:

Thank you, @LizEF, for the word "run!", for this ink review, for doing the glittery magnification with sheen photo although it can't be done and for the Seventies Magma Lamp microscopy! 

You're most welcome!

 

7 hours ago, InesF said:

Ahh, how I love being back ...  

Nice to have you back.  Hope your away time was refreshing (or at least worth your while).

 

7 hours ago, InesF said:

The deep dark purple ink with golden-green sheen seems to be not that uncommon and most of them, at least among my ink collection, have low surface tension - allowing to be used with only the driest or EF nibs. But, at least, they can be used and they all look great - to my eyes.  

Yes, this seems to be a normal color combo - presumably chemistry likes it.   Even the purple and green Skittles go well together.

 

7 hours ago, InesF said:

Looking forward to Wednesday!  

Thanks!

[LizEF]

3 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

Thank you @LizEF for that review

You're most welcome!

 

3 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

And interesting ink for sure. The amount of blue glitter in my bottle was kind of low, but I don't know if that's the norm or just luck of the draw.

Well, I'm not sure it matters - the sheen sort of takes over.

 

3 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

I had some "nib dry out when pausing too long" issues with this one, like with practically all the super sheener. Relatively thin lines (being generous, under the average) and that is interesting for a (probably) on the low surface tension side ink.

Yes, I'd say this is a really well behaving ink for all the "features" it sports.  It must not have dried out so quickly that I chose to mention it, but super-sheeners aren't made for long pauses, that's for sure.

 

3 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

Nicely done.

Thanks!