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I used black primer from Army Painter first time, and after spraying, I noticed that it gave grainy finish to my models, what to do?
I shaked can two minutes, sprayed in crossed coats, etc. Weather was sunny, no wind, 28 celsius hot.
My budget is very tight and I don't want to but new box of Lootas and SM Command Squad, how I can get rid of the grainy surface?

Can we see some pictures and maybe we can offer some advice.

A grainy finish could mean that you are holding the spray gun to far. Just use a paint remover (their are plenty of threads about which one is the best) to get rid of the paint.

You can remove the grainy surface with Simple Green or a similar product. There are few tutorial threads that cover some of the products and their counterparts.

Army Painter Spray is famous for drying fast, that means if you hold it too far away, the paint dries on the way to the model. So short, close bursts are the way to go with Army Painter, completely different from Citadel Primer.

As kroothawk says you need to be quite close to get a smooth finish, something I learnt when spraying parts of my Thunderhawk (eek)

So spray closer, got it. But what I can do to my models, will spraying again help because stripping seems very complicated and because I live behind gods back so I have no idea where to find products to strip them.