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heavybolter wrote:Have you considered brush on priming? With practice you can prime a single mini in the same time as spray paint but without the risk of botching it due to atmosphere or a crap can of spray. I highly recommend the Vallejo line of colored polyurethane base surface primers. If you invest in an airbrush as well then this is the way to go. I have brushed it on and it goes on smooth as butter and dries perfect every time.an added plus is it comes many colors but I usually stick with black and grey.

This. A thousand times this. I live practically on the coast in sunny (hahaha) Britain and I can count the days we've had less than 60% humidity on one hand. Spray primers, unless done in the middle of a heatwave or some such strange event, end up with enormous problems every time I've done them.

Example:-


After using straight Chaos Black from the pot for a while, I got a bottle of the Vallejo Poly Primer in Black just to see if I could solve this problem and actually prime when I'm ready to paint, rather than waiting half a year or more to get around to it. It works really well, it's not quite as durable as some of the automotive primers but it leaves details amazingly crisp and it touches up fine too. You also only need to use quite a small amount. It's great for airbrushes but I brush it on and it works fine for me.

My Test Model:-


Just don't thin it, it's plenty thin already, and shrinks as it dries so it can almost "shrinkwrap" the model. If you thin it, it loses its cohesion. They come in white, black, grey and a variety of colours. No blues though, I'm afraid, you'd probably be best off with grey.