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Having succumbed to a combination of persistently window-shopping colored pencils and the imminent expiration of a few cents of eBay bucks (a trial bonus program), I have bought some mechanical pencils with refillable colored leads for no good reason.
(...well, technically I've been using colored pencils in a very simplistic way to chart out my daily activities, which doesn't really require many colors; for the past month or three, I've been using a mini-set of 12 little conventional colored pencils that fit (with a sharpener and eraser) into a boxlet about the size of a deck of cards. However, I've really only been using 6 of the colors (and have virtuously resisted the urge to buy larger sets to get more contrast), and have been anticipatorily worrying about having to replace just those colors once they're sharpened down to unusable nubs.)
In the local stores, I'd been eyeing the Crayola Twistable colored mechanical pencils, but Crayola doesn't seem to offer refills, which rather misses a main point of mechanical pencils IMHO. More recently (i.e., a few hours ago when I found it online), I was considering the Pentel PH158, which is a single pencil that can carry 8 different colors of 2mm leads (Pentel actually has 12 colors of 2mm refills, including black), but decided that the barrel would probably be uncomfortably large for me to use.
So I'm now waiting for a whole 8-piece set of the Pilot Color Eno 0.7mm plus eight refill tubes (Pilot doesn't list them on their US site, but they're available through JetPens and sundry eBay sellers). On reflection, the "soft blue" member of the set probably won't be that useful to me, but oh well.
On a slightly different note, I was somewhat tempted by the Marvy Color Tricks mechanical pencil, which produces that trippy multichromatic effect you get from a single lead subsectored into red, blue, and green (they do have refill leads), but couldn't quite convince myself to get one despite their extreme affordability. Alas.
(...well, technically I've been using colored pencils in a very simplistic way to chart out my daily activities, which doesn't really require many colors; for the past month or three, I've been using a mini-set of 12 little conventional colored pencils that fit (with a sharpener and eraser) into a boxlet about the size of a deck of cards. However, I've really only been using 6 of the colors (and have virtuously resisted the urge to buy larger sets to get more contrast), and have been anticipatorily worrying about having to replace just those colors once they're sharpened down to unusable nubs.)
In the local stores, I'd been eyeing the Crayola Twistable colored mechanical pencils, but Crayola doesn't seem to offer refills, which rather misses a main point of mechanical pencils IMHO. More recently (i.e., a few hours ago when I found it online), I was considering the Pentel PH158, which is a single pencil that can carry 8 different colors of 2mm leads (Pentel actually has 12 colors of 2mm refills, including black), but decided that the barrel would probably be uncomfortably large for me to use.
So I'm now waiting for a whole 8-piece set of the Pilot Color Eno 0.7mm plus eight refill tubes (Pilot doesn't list them on their US site, but they're available through JetPens and sundry eBay sellers). On reflection, the "soft blue" member of the set probably won't be that useful to me, but oh well.
On a slightly different note, I was somewhat tempted by the Marvy Color Tricks mechanical pencil, which produces that trippy multichromatic effect you get from a single lead subsectored into red, blue, and green (they do have refill leads), but couldn't quite convince myself to get one despite their extreme affordability. Alas.