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10 Feb 07
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Re: Best Primer for Minis?
<!-- / icon and title --> <!-- message -->Testors Flat White.
Or Black, which I prefer, or Red, or Gray, or a Model Master's military color....
It's all good. Beautiful coverage, never any problems with graininess or poweder, and goes on nice and smooth.
No, it's not sold as primer. But honestly, it doesn't matter. -
I've used Tamiya white primer for the past 2-3 years and I'll never use anything else. I've never had the dusty chalky effect with it like I have with others. Tamiya seems to be the idiot proof primer cause I am an idiot and haven't managed to scrwe up the priming with it yet.
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Re: Best Primer for Minis?
<!-- / icon and title --> <!-- message -->Ahh. Priming. The part where hopeful minis go from either unpainted to ready to paint, or wind up needing stripped.
All spray primers, or paint, or undercoat, suck donkey cock. All of em. The only thing worse are brush on primers.
I've had more trouble with priming and clearcoating than anything else in the whole fucking hobby, and I've literally used every product known at this point. Shall I hit the highlights?
GW- I've had orange peel, I've had dried up mud puddle cracking with added orange peel and my new and current favorite, the spitting dots of black. Sadly, I still use this. Why? Cause I've had worse luck with other stuff.
Armory- Black Armory Primer is charcoal instead of black. Doesn't seem like its a big deal, but there ya go. It also rubbed off anytime anything at all touched the mini. And we even got the fuzzed look of GW as a bonus. Armory sucks. Their Matte Clearcoat is the only thing worse (and it is as Matte as their Black is Black).
Duplicolor Sandable- Ran into the crevices of the mini like an inkwash. Only on pewter, though. Covered plastic OK. Too bad I play Warmachine, eh?
Krylon- I can't rant about this too bad, as it has never failed me. Of course, I've never actually been able to find it in black, either. Since I only prime with black, well, you get the drift.
$0.87 Cheapass Walmart Stuff- Covers pretty nice. Especially fine detail. Also, the rubbing off on anything that touches it is actually worse than the Armory.
Charbok,
who lives in PA and primes year round cause he loves ruining models
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