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Alright, so I'm stuck in chicago for 2 months - Where it's illegal to buy spraypaint.
I've brought my airbrush with me.
I've never used my airbrush to prime anything before, so I'm hoping for some tips -
My color scheme is bone and copper - predominantly bone.

Normally I would just use Army Painter skeleton bone primer, and games workshop chaos black for the copper parts.

I have the latex colors I use, I just don't know how to prepare them to prime with an airbrush. Any tips are welcome.

I've never heard of using latex based paints in an airbrush.

As for primers themselves, I use Vallejo Polyurethane Surface Primers straight out of the bottle in my airbrush just fine. I highly recommend them, should be able to find them in such a large city.

Will this work in an airbrush? Vallejo Grey Primer

Sure will

That is the exact stuff I use.

Cool, ordering it now.

vallejo primers are awesome through an airbrush! you can even thin it down 50/50 with alcohol and the coverage will still be awesome!

Aerethan wrote:I've never heard of using latex based paints in an airbrush.

As for primers themselves, I use Vallejo Polyurethane Surface Primers straight out of the bottle in my airbrush just fine. I highly recommend them, should be able to find them in such a large city.

+1To this, I do it too, works great.

I use that primer straight in my airbrush you can get different colours of it too, not sure if there is a bone/off white one though. If you have to thin it down then be careful as it gets too thin quickly and will come out of the airbrush like water. I get a lot of tip dry but just wipe the needle with a wet old brush after every troop size model and it's fine.

Don't want to take over your thread too much, but I had a friend tell me that if I primed with an airbrush, the covering would be too smooth and I would not be able to brush on paint after. I don't know if it is true or not, maybe someone can confirm.

Your friend is wrong.

chingerspy wrote: I get a lot of tip dry but just wipe the needle with a wet old brush after every troop size model and it's fine.

thats a good tip! ill try that