Colorverse NASA Blue: amberleadavis ink PIF

[brokenclay]

I'm reviewing Colorverse NASA Blue, a Dromgoole's Special Ink, very kindly provided by @amberleadavis (https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/360714-another-pen-and-ink-new-to-you-pif/#comments).

 

This is very fun ink for me to review, because I work with NASA (as a contractor). It comes in an attractive 30 ml bottle in a cardboard box with happy little space drawings all over the inside. Unfortunately the instructions on opening the box are a little ambiguous, and not being very bright, I destroyed the top of the box while opening it. The flat front of the oval bottle is easy to grab hold of, and the top opening is large enough for any pen.

 

It's an intense purple-sheening blue. Of the other blue inks I have (not a very wide selection), the closest is Monteverde DC Supershow Blue, but NASA Blue is a little darker and a little more purple after drying. I'm left-handed and did get into a little trouble with smearing with this ink, but once it's dry, it's dry. I could not resist doing the writing sample on NASA notebook paper, which is 100% recycled (yes! conserve the Earth's resources!), so no sheen can be seen. This paper is so terrible that my ink splatter went right through the paper and got ink all over the table. But we're not talking about the paper, we're talking about the ink. On fountain pen friendly paper there's lots of sheen.

 

 

Rats, I messed up the box.

 

 

But look at the cute cartoons!

 

 

Colorverse NASA Blue with the real thing. More purple than NASA's actual logo blue.

 

 

 

 

Oh Rhodia paper, it does sheen.

 

Thanks again to @amberleadavis for this ink; I'm going to have to take it with me (oh, no, ink on a plane!) and leave it sitting around ostentatiously when I go back to Goddard the next time, and of course write all my notes with it.

 

And for you space fans, the spacecraft I am currently working on (Landsat 9 [NASA, USGS]) has arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base and is being prepared for launch in September. Click on the image below for NASA's Landsat 9 Flickr album.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[tubular]

Nice ink, better bottle, best box!

 

[LizEF]

Thanks for the review, @brokenclay!  The ink color is a bit ordinary for me, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading your review & NASA story.  I hope the other folks are properly impressed by your use of NASA Blue ink!

[IThinkIHaveAProblem]

this is cool! neat colour, crazy sheen!

 

thanks for the personal touches, that makes it a lot more fun

 

I donno what you do for NASA, but your workplace is pretty dang cool!  

 

Thanks again for sharing

and thanks to @amberleadavis for doing the PIF so you could do the review

[yazeh]

 thanks for making the forever boys and girls in us,  dream of places where no man has yet gone 🖖

[brokenclay]

23 minutes ago, IThinkIHaveAProblem said:

I donno what you do for NASA, but your workplace is pretty dang cool!

 

Software development and mission operations. It is pretty dang cool!

 

2 minutes ago, yazeh said:

 thanks for making the forever boys and girls in us,  dream of places where no man has yet gone

 

🙂 I grew up with Star Trek (the original series) and my father's huge collection of SF paperbacks, and am so lucky to have wound up doing science fiction for real.

[IThinkIHaveAProblem]

10 minutes ago, brokenclay said:

 

Software development and mission operations. It is pretty dang cool!

 

 

🙂 I grew up with Star Trek (the original series) and my father's huge collection of SF paperbacks, and am so lucky to have wound up doing science fiction for real.

I believe your software development is much higher stakes than mine was when I worked in the IT world...  

 

 

[Trekker]

2 hours ago, brokenclay said:

Software development and mission operations. It is pretty dang cool!

Cool! Do you ever get to see how the ink looks via multispectral with the Operational Land Imager? 😉

[brokenclay]

8 hours ago, Trekker said:

Cool! Do you ever get to see how the ink looks via multispectral with the Operational Land Imager? 😉

Alas! I've only seen dark images and the inside of the test chamber.

 

And once on orbit, I'm afraid the ink sample is a little too small for the OLI's resolution.

[PAKMAN]

Great review! Thanks!

[lapis]

Nice review, nice bottle, (yes, box ditto). But the whole thing fascinates me because it seems to steer in the direction of my absolutely most favorite dark blue (which has less purple in it) but is only available in cartridges: S.T. Dupont BLEU NUIT / DARK BLUE  Réf. 040111.

[brokenclay]

5 minutes ago, lapis said:

Nice review, nice bottle, (yes, box ditto). But the whole thing fascinates me because it seems to steer in the direction of my absolutely most favorite dark blue (which has less purple in it) but is only available in cartridges: S.T. Dupont BLEU NUIT / DARK BLUE  Réf. 040111.

 

If you wind up getting this one, let us know how they compare!

[lapis]

Will do... first I have to get the NASA and Colorverse isn't (yet) all that hot here....

[Tas]

Amber's PIFs reach far and wide.

What a lovely review. Thank you 😊

[Detman101]

Oh woooow...Awesome ink review!
Pretty bland color but that sheen is awesome!
Adventurous looking workspace too!!

[amberleadavis]

@brokenclay I'm so glad you received it.  @Frank C is the one who suggested NASA blue for you.  @lapis  I'll save a bottle for you.