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Ah I use vallejo black so I don't know the gw names now.

Yeah, chaos black. He suggested it meant that if I miss an area or my brush can't get there it just looks like a shadow.

Yeah that's what they say, and it's a valid suggestion. But you should learn to paint without that crutch really.

Lots of us prime black, works perfectly fine IMO.

My local store supplies palette paper and water cups, though I think if parents bring their kids in they have some of the blue plastic push-together space marines and other supplies to paint them.

Our local manager doesn't care that my paints and brushes aren't citadel, but the miniatures do need to be GW. He usually has a can of chaos black as primer that I've seen others use, but I never asked to use it myself. Painting in the shop is a pleasant way to spend a lazy sunday afternoon.