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HEEEEYO I'm just bout finishing all of my berserkers all twenty of em and I was wondering how to prime vehicals in parts or all together when assembled. I primed a rhino in parts and a helbrute as one piece and found that i like the priming job on the helbrute a bit better, but this might not scale to bigger models. I just want to know because I wanted to assemble all of mah vehicles to do a Batrep with my first army even before it is fully painted because I'm inpatient .

Depends on whether youre going to paint the interior really. Most of my vehicles were primed once built, I never had a problem that way. However sometimes you cant get away with not painting the interior (eg valkrie transport). In which case you need to.prime these areas before assembly.

Kind of too vague a question, bud.

If you want to just build stuff and play it, build the whole thing except anything obviously inaccessible, prime it black, paint it and play it. Anything that a brush doesn't hit, call it a shadow and move on.

If you want a model to be painted *quickly* and you have an airbrush, don't pre assemble the pieces that are obviously different colors. For example, when building a dreadnought, the entire lower torso excluding the feet and shin pads is silver. So, leave the shin pads and feet off, and prime and airbrush the entire bottom piece. Even the torso and backpack have a lot of silver; so, with an airbrush, airbrush most most of the nonsilver parts (without too much care), airbrush the silver parts more carefully (perhaps with a shield, or just being careful), and then swithc to a paintbrush and clean up.

If you want a model to be painted from high tabletop to display or competition quality, you're better off making subassemblies, and painting those separately. Otherwise, there are areas that you can't fully reach, and they won't be painted in a winning way. For example, on a Dark Eldar Raider, it's physically impossible to paint the main deck once you put all the stuff on top of it. It's physically not possible to paint the gunner, if you glue him in place first. And, it's unreasonably hard to reach many areas or paint them cleanly, once assembled.

But, if all you want is the Raider to play with, prime the whole thing black, toss on some highlights and a bit of silver, add a decal, skip the crew, and call it a day.

My apologies for not listing the models. They are two mauler fiends and two land raiders (chaos) thank you!

I prime vehicles on the sprue purely because you won't miss anything that may be obstructed when it's all put together. But purely personal preference is guess. Build one, spray it and see how you go, then do the next one on the sprue and go buy some more models!

With the maulers I'd advise priming/painting in sub assemblies. If you really want to use them in the mean time blutac works well. The way I did it was, build head and body, build legs/weapons. prime/paint separately then fit together. Land raiders can be built as one unit, leave off turrets/sponsons. Paint, final assembly. My raider needs a rework, but my mauler and forgefiend are below.

Lucas Radford wrote:
I prime vehicles on the sprue purely because you won't miss anything that may be obstructed when it's all put together. But purely personal preference is guess. Build one, spray it and see how you go, then do the next one on the sprue and go buy some more models!

When I first started to build models, this is what I did too (back then, it was beakie space marines ). The problem with this technique is that you scrape off a lot of primer when you clean mold lines and obviously where the sprue connects to the plastic.


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tomcat31 wrote:
With the maulers I'd advise priming/painting in sub assemblies. If you really want to use them in the mean time blutac works well. The way I did it was, build head and body, build legs/weapons. prime/paint separately then fit together. Land raiders can be built as one unit, leave off turrets/sponsons. Paint, final assembly. My raider needs a rework, but my mauler and forgefiend are below.

Nice work tomcat31!

I too, like to build the and paint subassemblies on most of the models. IoM tanks are probably the easiest to paint fully assembled.

For models with a lot of concave surfaces (infantry, MC) it's better to prime then build, if you're going for a more professional look.

For big flat models like most vehicles, you can easily get away with building and spraying as a whole.

I find that I prefer to prime as a single unit vs in pieces but then I use an airbrush so it's easier to get to hard to reach places than with a rattle can.