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Years ago, I used to always use grey primer, then one day, I tried black, and it improved all of my painting. The colors were more vibrant, less washed out, and the black was easier to paint over, and provided good shading techniques. But for certain minis, i'm thinking about going back to grey. So who has used any sort of grey primer, who likes it, who doesnt, and what do you use it for?

I stick to white. This allows me to pre wash my models and get better lines. You can always go darker, its often harder to go lighter.

I personally prime my models in one of three colors, depending on what effect I'm going for. I prime white on my arctic IG army, to minimize the number of layers of white I need for my base coat. I prime gray when I'm using lighter, more muted tones (my Tau are a light gray and black with red accents, primed in gray). I prime black when I'm going for my metallics (I.e. GKs), or as you've stated, darker, richer colors.

Really depends on the model. Since we don't have white primer here (or at least, good white primer I can pick inside a hardware store) I stick with black for dark-colored figures and grey for light-colored (or color-vibrant) ones, then a brownish red primer for the more brown ones. The brownish red primer does wonders with animals and zombies and Blood Angels.

Gray1378 wrote:
I stick to white. This allows me to pre wash my models and get better lines. You can always go darker, its often harder to go lighter.

Exactly, same for me.

I really like Duplicolor's Sandable gray. It's pretty dark -- darker than sprue gray -- but it's easier for me to see details that I was missing with black primer.