Is A Paint Stik The Same As A Crayon?

Totally different material
Crayons are more wax and plastic whereas paint sticks are oil base or dry pigment encased
To which using crayons to paint may work but not going to hold a gloss cause of its properties.

 

There are so many different paint sticks when I googled it. Any advice on what works well with lacquer paint. Thank you

 

The biggest think to look for in ingredients is wax, glycerol products.
Oils like shiva sticks work but give it day or two for the oils to dry out.
If unsure of anything seal well with shellac prior to lacquer

 

Do a test. Alot of supplies that you can buy from art and craft suppliers work well for taxidermy.
Markers, color pencils, pastel sticks, just keep water based and solvent based separate. Water based can be used before solvent but not the other way around. EXCEPTION is an acrylic wash over a solvent based pigment.
I paint D&D figures for people sometimes and the paints used are great. Pigment saturation give grate coverage and if you don't need a lot of a color, you can get 1oz bottles for airbrush or brush.

I even used fake eye lashes as replacement on mounts when they are missing.