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I use the 96 cent wal-mart black spray can it works great.

Good 'ol Brush on for me.

I find that a $3.50 Paint Pot is cheaper than most sprays (excepting the wal-mart black spray mentioned above)

I've been basing my Space Wolves with Army Painter's uniform grey. Pretty close to codex grey...

My Empire has gotten a combo of GW white, GW black primer(the old school stuff), AP Chainmail(knights), & AP desert khaki(?).

Just bought some P3 white primer. Before that I was using the uhh .... grey primer, had the Munchkin cartoon guys on it, helfican remember what it is o.O

I use good ole WalMart $.97 flat black spray. When it's too humid, (which it always is seems where I live) I used a thick wash of Chaos Black.

Sidstyler wrote:Duplicolor black sandable primer. Used to use the GW spray but I'm not paying fething $15 a can for that gak...tried Armory primer and I do not recommend it, that stuff is horrible and all it did was ruin my models.

Duplicolor costs about $5 a can and goes on pretty lightly, I'm never going back.

This. If it works for Ali McVey, it works for me!

Cheapest i can find in the hardware store!

Cheap gray spray paint works just fine for me

I've used armory, GW, and P3 primer sprays. I've used old GW paint on primer. I've also just white washed models before...

nyyman wrote:The cheapest non-melting black spray I can find from shop

Me too. Why pay GW prices when you can get it at a third the price from Wal-mart.

Wal-Mart 93 cents flat black. Unbeatable.

I undercoat mine by hand, with Chaos Black, using the starter brush.

I've been using GW black and white depending on the model.Yeah, it's more expensive but supplies is the one area where I always support my local GW store. I could get stuff cheaper elsewhere, but I get value out of the GW store and if it gets axed, my friends lose their jobs. Not to mention that I use their facilities to paint and I'm not that guy that paints and plays at a place but never buys from them.

for sealant I use Krylon.

Rustolium flat black.

I use a brown Krylon camo spray paint since it saves be ten minutes per ork mini.

I use armory: cheap and good.

GW white spray basecoat - nice and thin, lovely and smooth. It can miss smoe recesses, but not a huge deal and it a really nice base, better than thinned-down Skull White.

Montana Gold.....comes in a hundred colors and is better quality than GW better coverage lasts longer and bonds perfectly with plastic and metal......designed for outdoor use it is literally bomb proof.....just a little tough to find....I dont use anything else.

It depends, if I'm lazy I'm using canned black or white primer, GW or Prince August, if I know I'm gonna do some airbrush work on the model I usually start with a black coat through the airbrush. Going forward I'll probably be doing AB only. It is cheaper, you need a single step to cover all the spots of the miniature, there's no fume to ventialte away, and I can worrk on model at 11 PM without disturbing the neighbours or my family.

I prefer brush on a coat of chaos black because I feel I know I won't over do the primer. But if I'm feeling lazy which I normally am I just use a can of 1$ walmart flat black spray paint. I don't see why anyone would pay 15$ for a can of spray paint thats way to much I don't see any difference between it and what I use.

I dont undercoat usually

Tamiya Fine Surface Primer. It's the best. However, when I don't feel like waiting I use Testors paint on acrylic primer. Its fast, but fills in details more than the Tamiya-- not as much as paint though.

I use Armory Spray Primer for my stuff. A more foul smelling primer I have never found, but the results are the best and most consistent I have found.

most non-citadel spray paints will melt/warp the plastic. no joke. I have used...MOLOTOW, KRYLON, OFF BRAND, etc...

none of them are worth it...and plus, if you use citadel paint, it has bonding issues. because you are doing water based over oil based....ever pour olive oil in a glass of water?

for those of you who DO use chemical/oil based undercoats...I don't want to know what your armies will look like in a few years.

I like citadel paints because I don't get high while I paint in my man cave. water based = win.

The cheapest black, white, or gray FLAT sprays you can find at Home Depot or Lowes depending on the color scheme of the mimi.

The cheap crap tends to really stick to metal or plastic. If the can starts to get powdery or sporadic I dump it immediately. $1-2 US dollars is no great loss.

I spray for a whole day's session though. I hate the priming process so I'll knock out a hundred models or more models on a lazy Sunday, so I don't have to do it again for a while.

If I only painted a few models a month or competed, I'd have no problem spending the a few extra bucks on the quality GW? or Armory! stuff.

Bacon

GW Black spray. Works nicely for me.

GW undercoat for me. Expensive, but readily available and I'm a lazy bugger.

I either GW spray, or when I can't be bothered waiting that long, just basecoat them with a brush.

I use the GW spray, but I agree with the other posters that it is starting to get a little too pricey.

GW primer for undercoating, airbrush on gloss or matt varnish.