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Liquitex do a large range of coloured acrylic sprays paints (in cans not for brush) that look like they would make good base colours. A much wider variety than GW Or army painter for example. There is a purple that looks like it would be perfect for basing EC troops for example. I have used other liquitex products and they seem good, anyone got experience with their sprays?

not good for priming - they just rub and chip off

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PossumCraft wrote:
not good for priming - they just rub and chip off

But as as a base??

mrFickle wrote:

PossumCraft wrote:
not good for priming - they just rub and chip off

But as as a base??

As a base paint it would be fine I’d imagine but the issue you’d run into is colour matching if you ever need to retouch.

Use primer for priming

If you want acrylic spray can IE, (water based)
I go these and they work great. Its an empty spray "can" that you can fill with whatever mixture you want.

Watered down acrylic or watered down glue.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Preval-Sprayer-2-Pack-0225/203826736

 Mothsniper wrote:
Use primer for priming

If you want acrylic spray can IE, (water based)
I go these and they work great. Its an empty spray "can" that you can fill with whatever mixture you want.

Watered down acrylic or watered down glue.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Preval-Sprayer-2-Pack-0225/203826736

Interesting. I feel like there 2 issues with this. One is the correct consistency of paint and 2, why would I want to spray glue...????

mrFickle wrote:

 Mothsniper wrote:
Use primer for priming

If you want acrylic spray can IE, (water based)
I go these and they work great. Its an empty spray "can" that you can fill with whatever mixture you want.

Watered down acrylic or watered down glue.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Preval-Sprayer-2-Pack-0225/203826736

Interesting. I feel like there 2 issues with this. One is the correct consistency of paint and 2, why would I want to spray glue...????

For me color consistency is a none issue because I can color match and adjust or compensate to maintain overall army theme.
For example, if base coat is in different shades of blue, for me it matters not because I will paint over it anyways, and by the time shades, highlights, drybrushing, detailing are done, the base color will be unified by all the top layers, and the eye will blend colors as well.

And to spray watered down MOd-poge or Titebond-II is to saturate flock, dust, rocks, soil, ets for terrain. Because brushing in the glue is too time consuming, and default (spray-glues) are rubbery and tacky and wont soak into the terrain detail.



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HOWEVER!!!

I have been painting minis for a while, and also have my education and career in FineArt and Digital Art painting, for me color matching is not a big deal.
However, I can see how color consistency can be an issue, especially with acrylic that dries slightly darker.

Best solution would be imo:

Spraycans ether glues or paints are not water-based, because water under high pressure is dangerous, and almost does not compress.

So for Water-based ether glues or paints, Airbrush is the best solution!

Because i do not own an airbrush, those (Spray-cans) allow me to use waterbased things in a spray-can, cheep and ghetto style.
Now I want to give Liquitex spray paints a try, it might be way better than what I have done in the past!