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hey all,

I've been having some issues with white primer recently, I'm using the GW skull white spray and it seems to come out really really watery for some reason when I'm trying to prime the miniatures even after giving the can a good shake for a minutre

Is this a common problem with skull white spray? If so anyone got any good recommendations for a nice white spray?

Shake it a lot more, it settles a lot. Spray distance should be about 20cm.

In general though, the GW sprays are godawful. Do yourself a favour and get down to halfords if you need spray primer. Or a model shop for the Tamiya surface primer.

If you have an airbrush / spraygun, Vallejo's polyurethane primers are great, but need at least a couple of hours drying time or they'll come off real easy - they're more like gesso than a chemically bonding primer.

Thanks for the advice, I'll maybe try a can of the halfords stuff seeing as I love there grey primer.

I would use the airbrush spray but I'm having alot of issues with my airbrush atm and havent had a chance to give it a good clean

I shake the can loads to no effect, watery white! Fills all detail and leaves grey plastic in its wake!

Even the black one, good on plastic, but use it on metal and it doesn't stick! The Emperor has turned from us! Heresy!

I haven't tried alternative modelling ones yet, but am going to soon. Everyone seems to recommend them, I already use alternative glue. I like the needle applicator that comes on modelling glue, which GW after many years have copied, and its a fraction of the price!

winterdyne wrote:Shake it a lot more, it settles a lot. Spray distance should be about 20cm.

In general though, the GW sprays are godawful. Do yourself a favour and get down to halfords if you need spray primer. Or a model shop for the Tamiya surface primer.

If you have an airbrush / spraygun, Vallejo's polyurethane primers are great, but need at least a couple of hours drying time or they'll come off real easy - they're more like gesso than a chemically bonding primer.

Halfords primer, its epic simply put. i pretty much use the Grey as it allows me to see what i'm painting, i can't see a damned thing in black.
plus the grey gives you a nice even tone when painting bright colours over it, rather then the crazy brightness you get from white or the dull from black.

Ive never had a problem with GW primers. I tend to use the white on Large Scale models (54mm +) and find that the best way to apply it is in two thin layers. The watery effect may be from were wet paint is landing on wet paint if your not giving it time to dry.

Another problem may be the releasing agent on the model if you do not wash them beforehand. You may find that the Halfords spray primers are too thick and will obscure the details although I have never tried them. There designed for spraying large flat areas not little people with fine detail.