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My usual method of painting purple isn't working for certain pieces. I rely on a white priming coat to really pop out the purple yet, with excessive tubing and vents around, I find it difficult not to leave a mark of black somewhere. Purple is very, very difficult to use to cover this over. I was wondering how feasible it would be to use a primer of black and to then apply ceramite white to the areas of power-armour where my purple is applied. Does it cover well? Any experience in using it?
Well, I use Vallejo Royal Purple and thin it out to water consistency for a really smooth finish. It comes out looking like this when based on white primer:
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The problem being that, on black primer, it is excessively dark. Whilst eating tea, I was wondering if perhaps very water-thin coats was the wrong approach on a dark base and instead apply it a little thicker [although obviously not pot-thick] I've tried on numerous models to get a really bright 'pop' with a black primer but it just doesn't work for me - not really sure why. It saves a helluva lot of time on the power cables etc though, I wondered thus if the ceramite white would work well in this situation.
Eiríkr wrote:I was wondering how feasible it would be to use a primer of black and to then apply ceramite white to the areas of power-armour where my purple is applied. Does it cover well? Any experience in using it?
With any foundation paints, you'll want to thin it a little and apply multiple coats instead of trying to get coverage in one go. But, yes, Ceramite White is an amazing paint and will certainly do what you are wanting to get done. Of all the things I can complain about regarding GW, the quality of the current paint range isn't one of them.
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Wait, I don't understand the problem with just using a white spray primer? If you want your purple to pop, that'd be the way to go. Ceramite white is good, but I mostly use white undercoats anyway. It still takes a good 3 or 4 coats of ceramite to get a solid white over a dark colour... which is better than 10 coats but it's still annoying. I found ceramite white needs to be watered down a lot to get a smooth coat and it dries really quickly, faster than other GW paints I've found. More than any other GW colour Im finding ceramite white drying out on my palette.
As far as painting white over dark colours it works great, but still not as good as just starting with a white spray on primer.
