Best of all, I can paint prime my figs inside without all the hellish fumes!!! And who cares how cold it is outside? As a side note, the white is every bit as good as the black, and WAY better than the GW skull white!Īll in all, this is GREAT primer. Best of all, the surface is baby-skin smooth and accepts paint like. I did some drop tests from about 8 inches to my wooden tabletop after letting it dry for 12 hours and no chips. It covered really well and dried very quickly. I did thin it about 1 part primer to 1/2 part mix of Tamiya Acrylic thinner (X20) and Golden Airbrush Medium. I had heard that the primer sprays better at the. Once she was up, I was able to break out the older airbrush (an Iwata revolution CR). To be honest, the wife was sleeping and I didn't want to fire up the compressor while she rested. As long as you don't glob it on, brushing this stuff on will yield results much akin to using a rattle can. It flows on nicely, dries very smoothly and is very thin. Brush painting the primer on is a breeze (with a decent quality brush. Vallejo says they can be brushed or airbrushed on.
These come in plastic bottles (17ml, 60ml and 200ml). GW's black primer had always done all that for me, or so I thought.Įnter the Vallejo Surface Primers. Lastly, they need to be thin to not hide any surface detail and provide a smooth surface to paint on. If the primer chips off, all your hard work painting goes with it. They also need to be tough, resistant to damage from rough handling. Bond well to the surface your priming (plastic, resin or pewter, in my case) is the most important thing.
There really is not a whole lot you can say about primers. Suffice to say, I always ended up back with GW primer, paying the huge GW tax for the great name on the can. Either they were not smooth or they were splotchy. I have tried what some other folks had mentioned, Krylon and the Hobby Lobby brands, but I always found them lacking in some way or another. The white seems to go on powdery sometimes, and yes, I am not spraying too far away. I have always liked the black better than the white though. I have always been user of GW's primer line (Chaos black and Skull white) and I have never really had reason to doubt them. Well, off to the War Store to get my order filled and a week or so later, I'm in business again! And what kind of business it this. I did some research and a lot of people really like these primers. Surfing around the Vallejo website, I came across their Surface Primer line of paints.
That means no priming, and that means no painting. So, it's been pretty cold around here lately.