Yeah, that’s a beauty Elliot. I have to wonder if the dark gray version had a different blend for the coating that holds up better. I remember you saying how you’d reached out to the original maker of several TOMBOW La Nave series models and that Dani Nebot actually sent you a signed box Oceanic as a gift [LINK].
Yeah, my troubled Oceanic pen with shipping and tax was $15, which is far lower than I expected it to go. When the surface treatment goes bad, I’d heard it just gets really sticky. As you can see in my photo, that effect is segmented… which has me believe that it’s a beginning phase of degradation. I don’t know if it can be rescued. I had read up on rubberized coating degradation sometime back and couldn’t find any useful means of stopping the degradation once it starts happening. I’m thinking maybe a matte clearcoat might work. Something like this:
