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Hello everyone I'm fairly new to 40k, and extremly new to painting(still gatherings supplies to start). I'm playing a GKs army, and I'm mostly going codex colors. The biggest thing I want to ask is... Saving some time, I was told to use Krylon fusion for plastic: Metallic shimmer for the base coat and just skip the matte black. What is the communities thoughts on the Kyrlon color line to be used as the basecoat?

Krylon fusion is pretty good I am new as well and I find Krylon to be pretty easy to use even though I have had no previous experience~

I've been turned off Krylon since trying one of their finishes. It coated badly and damaged some paint and melted some pieces. Granted, that was just a finish, and I had not tested it. YMMV, but I recommend using a test piece.

I was just wondering what dakka thinks about them, it comes highly recommended by one of the more skilled painters at my local shop. The few pieces he's done for me look really good for not having the common black/white basecoat.

I use Krylon primers religiously. I pretty much just use black/white, but I picked up their brown for my Valhallans recently as well. Haven't used it just yet.

+1 on Krylon primers. Im loving the grays right now. Just make sure its doesn't say sandable on the can that stuff comes out super gritty.

I'm talking using the colors in place of primer. So in one shot you have the majority of a models major color finished. Do you recommend that?

I've done it, but I think you need a pretty good highlight planned in advance for after shading.

I used to use it prior to switching to airbrush only. I would put it up there with any of the $10 rattle-cans. At half the price it's just that much better.

one of my friends uses one of their plastic fusion colors for the base color for his army (with no primer...it is the primer for him) and loves it.

of course, test it on some sprue first....while I have never heard of any spray paint melting a plastic model, its never a bad idea to test....

I use the Krylon stuff for my work.
Any of the cheap stuff. I've found it's more about how you apply it than the quality in most cases.
Here's how I prime my models with it: http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-i-prime-my-models.html

And as far as using it for base colors and such, I painted this guy using spray paint only.
Here's the post on the process: http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-i-paint-ultramarines-dark-and-very.html

I used Krylon base primers both black and white for my orks. I paint my marines very fast 10 hrs or so and base coat them with Krylon color. I don't like their plastic specific products nor do I care for the 'aqua' line. The later is good for spraying foam terrain however. Samples below:

DrG

ICleadpeople wrote:+1 on Krylon primers. Im loving the grays right now. Just make sure its doesn't say sandable on the can that stuff comes out super gritty.

This. I messed up a model of mine pretty hard because of it. The Primers are awesome, but the sandable kinds are not.