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Is technical primer an actual primer or just paint?

What is the source - not enough info in your post to make an assessment.

Personally I find the GW primer to be useless, it's a watered down pot of black paint that doesn't seem to cover well. It's been useless to me as both a primer and layer black.

I should have mentioned that I use Halford's car primers. They do a variety of colours too.

 LazzurusMan wrote:
Personally I find the GW primer to be useless, it's a watered down pot of black paint that doesn't seem to cover well. It's been useless to me as both a primer and layer black.

This is a misconception that I have seen popping up a lot lately. Primer is NOT meant to provide a solid opaque coat, your base coat it. Primer is meant to prepare the model substrate for the base coat. That being said, I feel the GW stuff is crap, I prefer Vallejo Primer through my airbrush, or the p3 Primer.

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Thanks only just realising the importance of primer, I too thought it was just a "first" coat of paint