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How do you undercoat your miniatures?
I dont paint / play
Brush on paint
Brush on gesso
Citadel/GW spray
Army painter spray
Krylon spray
Tamiya spray
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Decrepit Dakkanaut






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As requested by Deammer

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Somewhere in south-central England.

I use brush-on gesso on individual figures and for 'touching up'.

I use spray primer (Plasti-kote_ for vehicles, buildings and masses of figures.

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Andy Hoare




Midwest Hell

I use black gesso a lot.
I really like using the Tamiya grey primer. It's hard to screw up and that's important for me since my middle name is disaster. :p


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Renegade Kan Killin Orks





San Francisco, CA

I still use a brush and black paint. I've been thinking about getting a can of the spray on stuff... like hair or something...

From what I've read, though, you still have to go back in with a brush sometimes. So, until I get a can to try out, I'll just be thinking about it. :p

   
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*Other , mainly floral spray.

The paint have tiny bit of trouble sticking on though...

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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard






Newcastle, OZ

Auto primer.

Some unkind souls have also suggested "a trowel".


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Dayton, Ohio

If you aren't one of those "Golden Demon ten months on an infantry model" types, I like Krylon Fusion for all my plastic models. It goes on a little thicker than some primers but still shows detail well. It chemically bonds to plastic, forming a very durable basecoat. I've used my thumbnail to try and damage the finish, but it's tough stuff.

The other benefit is that it's available in a lot of satin colors that take paint just fine. I have white, black, warm and cool greys, khaki, navy, maroon, and several other colors that have formed my first base color and been the primer all in one.

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Bush? No, Eldar Ranger





Los Angeles

Air Brush Citadel paints.

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Longtime Dakkanaut






Springhurst, VIC, Australia

Brush, Mostly chaos black

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Twisted Trueborn with Blaster






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

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Death-Dealing Devastator






I tried out some regular black spray paint one time, it just didn't seem to adhere to the plastic so I ended up having to buy the overpriced Citadel spray.

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Guard Heavy Weapon Crewman




Rochdale, England

preferably, spray. but i'm 17 and i've just run out of my last can, so I'm painting on paint until I can sen in an older family member

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Shas'o Commanding the Hunter Kadre




Missouri

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.

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Nasty Nob on a Boar





Galveston County

You know, for all the crap with give GW I really like the foundation paints. I can literally brush on a good color and start painting right away.

Haven't tried a vehicle yet.

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Longtime Dakkanaut






The land of cotton.

Krylon Charcoal Black primer for dark subjects, White for bright colors, Grey for middle of the road stuff.

Black Gesso for figures, touch ups and when it's too cold outside to spray prime.
   
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Never-Miss Nightwing Pilot





In the Webway.

Usually brush on a normal paint undercoat, oftena cidatel foundation but if the model(s) im painting have a lot of black on (for example night goblins) or white (howling banshees have a lot of white/bone colour) i will use some spray paint.

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Coastal Bliss in the Shadow of Sizewell





Suffolk, where the Aliens roam.

GW's sprays, aye they cost more, but so far *touches wood* I've never had an issue with them, and the latest version goes on really smooth.

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Fanatic with Madcap Mushrooms






Chino Hills, CA

GW's Primer.

However, I really want to switch. Not that it's bad quality, but $15 for a can is getting a bit steep.

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Decrepit Dakkanaut






Burtucky, Michigan

I use cheap .97 cent cans from home depot. The stuff lays on incredibly and its dirt cheap. Who could ask for more?
   
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Automated Rubric Marine of Tzeentch






VA Beach

@KingCracker


Agreed, but I use the ultra-flat stuff...


And for tanks i use textured paint to make it look, well, textured.


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The Main Man






Beast Coast

Now I mostly use brush on gesso, but I used to just brush on watered-down black paint (Chaos Black or something similar). Sometimes I'll use an airbrush, but mostly now it's just gesso. Nowadays pretty much the only thing I use a spray can for is varnish.

   
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Ruthless Rafkin






Glen Burnie, MD

Walmart $0.98 flat black.



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Sybarite Swinging an Agonizer






Middlesbrough, UK

GW Black/White Spray Primer, depending on model. I may consider something else soon though, the price is getting ridiculous.

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Shrieking Traitor Sentinel Pilot




Burbank, CA

I tried out black gesso on the suggestion of someone here. And it worked amazingly well!! Tried it with white, and had terrible results! What's the diffrence? Same brands!! (please withhold any racial jabs. )

So for white I just get some rustoleum or whatever brand they have at the hardware store white metal primer. Works great, but I typically have to go over my black models with paint anyway, so the gesso is the perfect deal.

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Fresh-Faced New User




Port Richey, FL

I have been painting miniatures for 30 years- I even held a fig-painting class for 8yrs in a couple local stores.
I have used everything (or seen what I haven't used on other peoples stuff)

TAMIYA white spray primer is BY FAR the best- No others even come close-(they make Grey too, but not black)
it covers well, goes on very light and flat and doesn't obscure surface details, drys FAST-
and with certain colors you can basecoat right over the white primer with wash or ink and then drybrush one or two stages of GW or Vallejo and you're DONE!
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The only drawback is price VS. size of can-
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But I guess if I was painting 99 cents a bag "Plastic Army men from the Dollar Store", I'd use cheap Krylon or some other generic garbage-

I spend TOP dollar for HIGH QUALITY figs, I use the best primer, and paints MADE FOR painting figs-
I can promise there are NO Golden Demon winners that used Krylon and Apple Barrel craft paint-

All the talent in the world can't make up for bad, cheap supplies- But top-quality stuff can make it easier for a mediocre painter turn out decent looking minis-
   
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Nimble Dark Rider





Okinawa

Mostly Testor's spray. I've used the new GW white primer, which seems really thin and powdery, so I don't like it.

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Iceland

I use a white , sandable primer atm.

I dont like GW or Tamiya , simply becouse GW ones dont give me the rough , gritty coat i want without having to buy another can .. and Tamiya is not avilable here for all i know , and i once bought it through the internet and did'nt quite like it ..

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Cultist of Nurgle with Open Sores





Montana Gold spray paints:

http://www.merriartist.com/Montana_Spray_Cans_s/849.htm

They go on like GW primers but come in every color.

Here's one of my uses for it:

http://mortal888.blogspot.com/2009/09/concept-models-part-2.html

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Serious Squig Herder






Krylon - work's great, but it's so hard to find any stores carrying it in black, they only seem to ever have grey.

I also have some white gesso, for the rare things I want to paint white.
   
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Gargantuan Gargant





Binghamton, NY

I use the super cheap midget cans you can pick up for a buck at Home Depot or Walmart. Haven't had any problems, yet. Don't spray like a jackass and your minis will come out fine. Nice satin finish that takes paint just fine. I've also found that it's pretty forgiving stuff if you overspray and get a drip - just blow hard at the drip to spread it out and you can still save the details. Don't have any chaos black, so I touch up the crevices I missed with watered down craft acrylic (Apple Barrel and the like). Works just fine for me and doesn't break the bank by a longshot. Tiny cans are easy to carry and work with, too.

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