I want to talk to you, today, about one of the biggest problems with the Molotow Rollerball
Dripstick! And then i want to show you how to make it a way better, much more awesome, graffiti
writing and tagging implement. The biggest problem with these Molotow Rollerball Dripsticks is,
you know, they absolutely nailed it with this nice small body, it's perfectly squeezable in the mini
version at least and controllable, the refill from the back system is nice, and the actual rollerball
is big, it's well made and hasn't ever broken for me at least; but then they went and filled it with
like this sort of runny sort of paint. And i don't know why they would do that! And maybe they did
that on purpose, we all love our nice drippy tags, but i think that it would look much better writing
with a nice thick juicy paint formula. So today i'm going to be doing some tags on this nice,
sort of smooth sort of rough, nice wood surface behind me here, first with the normal paint
formula that comes in the Molotow Rollerball Dripstick, and then after that we'll be filling it
with one of my personal all-time favourite paint formulae. And that is the stuff that comes in the
Grog Metal Heads, the Grog Ruff Stuff Paint. We'll be doing some tags with it filled with the Ruff
Stuff Paint to see the differences. And i want you guys to weigh in on this as well! Am i crazy
or is this just the simplest best way to beef up the Molotow Rollerball Dripstick? So first,
right now i have this pre-filled with the permanent alcohol-based glossy paint
that the Molotow Dripstick Rollerballs come pre-filled with. I'll do some tags with that,
of subscriber names who have asked me for hit offs, and then after that we'll fill it up with
the Grog Ruff Stuff Paint to see the differences. And, as always, whenever i am featuring any kind
of graffiti products in a video, i'll have a link in the description below to where you can actually
pick one of these up for yourself, if you're interested. So let's get to it!
All right, so we're gonna start off just with some nice drippy tags here.
It's a little bit empty here.
So, as you can see, there's not a huge amount of drippage here,
but the drips that you are getting are just sort of in weird spots and with weird consistencies.
It flattens out. It spreads out in strange places that you would normally not really expect.
It's not at the ends of letters. It's not really at the bottom of letters or points and it's just
the paint itself has a weird consistency to it that i'm not really partial to. Another thing i
want to mention about this paint formula is it's just sort of dull. And i've mentioned
that in other videos talking about the same paint formula as well, but you will see how dull it is
when we directly compare it side by side, with the Grog Ruff Stuff Paint. If you're the kind
of graffiti writer that enjoys the sort of loose look that you can get, for lack of a better word,
with this type of rollerball style tagging implement, but you also don't like weird drips
and weird consistencies, then i think this Ruff Stuff Paint is going to be the ticket for this
Molotow Rollerball Dripstick. And i also think the thicker paint formula will sort of complement the
nice large rollerball that is on this Molotow Rollerball Dripstick, and allow it to
sort of feature the nice loose style that you can get with the the rollerball style tags. So
now that we've got a good visual here for how it looks with the Molotow aint formula in it,
i'm gonna fill it up with the Ruff Stuff Paint and we'll do a side-by-side comparison.
A nice bonus you'll find with this Ruff Stuff Paint is that it just smells amazing! Some
people couldn't care less about that, but it's one of the best ones. So this is now full to the
brim with the Ruff Stuff Paint. Let's put these side by side, see what we're dealing with here.
If
the surface was a little bit rougher it would actually probably be a little more ideal. So,
if anything else, you can see that this red here, which is actually called foundry orange - i guess
it's sort of orange, is much more vibrant than say the the Molotow Paint Formula and actually, if i
had to say, i'd say that this is actually a little bit too thick by itself for the Molotow Rollerball
Dripstick. It might be interesting to see what a nice mix of like half and half of each of these
would do to the rollerball here. I do actually have a full in-depth review of Grog Ruff Stuff
Paint. If you do want to check that out, it'll be in the cards in the corner, or linked in the
description as well. But for me personally, the sort of like more three-dimensional look that you
can get with the Rollerball Dripstick here filled with the Ruff Stuff Paint is just that much more
present and noticeable. I really like that about the Ruff Stuff Paint, whereas you're definitely
getting the complete opposite of that entirely two-dimensional with the Molotow formula. If i
had to guess right now, i would say it probably - i would be really satisfied with like a 50 50 mix
of the Ruff Stuff Paint and the Molotow paint, or something like that. And that's the beauty
of graffiti. It's entirely up to you. You can use this kind of formula or any other that you
in particular prefer. That's all down to personal preference. That's also sort of why people sort of
make themselves look dumb when they talk about why you should only use specific kinds of paint or you
should only use DIY supplies... it just doesn't really make sense. So, although i do like the more
three-dimensional look of these tags in general, you do lose a bit of the quickness that you can
get with this more runny formula that just sort of pours out, which obviously is a big factor. A
lot of people are just 100% used to really swift motions with any kind of tagging implement, and
because of that probably wouldn't enjoy this kind of thing. But for me, that's - i don't care either
way. I can do both. And i feel personally that this allows you to write on some surfaces a little
bit better and have that more three-dimensional look to it. So, unlike most of my reviews, i don't
really have anything to say in terms of what kind of graffiti writers i think would enjoy mixing
this formula with this marker, like i sort of usually would for a review of something, because
this kind of thing comes almost entirely down to just personal preference, as I mentioned. So in
that case, all i really have to say is, if you want to pick up a Molotow Rollerball Dripstick,
specifically in the size as well, to try out for yourself, there is that link in the description.
Of course, definitely feel free to weigh in in the comments if you found some good formula mixtures
that are good for the rollerball specifically or really anything else of course. We all love to
just talk about graffiti, and the more knowledge we can share with each other within the graffiti
community, the more we know and the better off we all are. You can check out a full review of
this Grog Ruff Stuff Paint formula on screen now, as well as any of the other many graffiti
series we have here on the channel! I'll see you over in one of those videos! Until then, peace!