Okay, I picked-up an orange Uchida pen from Michael's this morning. I've been experimenting on a black cap I have with white stitching.
The Uchida red alone does not have the red pop of the Elmer's pen. Like Mandingo stated, it's got a magenta tone to it when next to bright red stitching.
To counter this, I tried orange over red and red over orange. The orange over red looks to orange, while the red over orange hits the sweet spot for me. It makes the just red threads look pinkish when compared side-to-side.
I'm going to go with the red over the orange base.
I also picked-up a Uchida Fabric Marker pen - has a rounded tip with a white label, as opposed to the black Uchida Fashion Marker dye pen. I found the rounded tip Fabric Marker pen to be a redder shade, but application isn't as accurate. Would work on the leather stitiching, but would be a mess on the Alcantara door inserts.
Again, the difference in the shades are very subtle, and really have to be seen in person. If one were to just do the Fashion Marker dye pen, I doubt if you would really think it wasn't red. It just leans to the bluer side of red.
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