Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I've been using vallejo primer for a little while now but am having trouble getting even coverage. I'm using a Chinese airbrush with a .03mm nozzle and the primer usually comes out of the airbrush patchily. sometimes pooling in certain areas. Based on what I've seen in the community the Vallejo primer is usually great. So I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for achieving more even coverage with this stuff.

Cheers

Hi mate, I see this allot on these forums and this was a big issue I had when I started airbrushing aswell. A few things that might be causing it.

- Low PSI you want it around 25.
- temperature? is it 0 degrees in the USA or super hot? you want a happy medium a colder is better then hot.
- In regards to temp how close are you to the mini when priming? colder do abit further away. Hotter do it a little closer.
- Shake the crap out of your primer. I have 5 steel ball bearings in mine. I keep shaking until all the dark stuff around the sides of the bottle is gone takes about 2 mins of constant shaking.


might do a video on this or something allot of threads all over the place about this. I hope this helps mate.


regards,


James

Kronic covered it pretty well, I would add that it could be a dud bottle if you've done everything above and it hasn't helped. I *much* prefer Vallejo Polyurethane primer through the airbrush over rattle can primers, it's definitely worth making sure you get it sorted.

I used a cheapy with a 0.5 needle initially but do find my Badger Krome much nicer to work with and haven't had any problems priming with it whereas iirc I did get spotty results with my cheap one... but I was very inexperienced then too. Once you're comfortable with your airbrush and know you won't do something silly that will wreck it, I'd highly recommend upgrading, your old chinese one can still be used for varnishing and basecoating.

Thanks some much for the help everyone. I'll be sure to give this a try.

One last thing....

make 100% sure you are using vallejo surface primer (that comes in black,white, gray and a few others colors...).

and NOT the vallejo paint that comes in the COLOR grey primer (as in to paint a tank model, the color of a tank that had been primed gray).

The difference is one is a primer the other is just a gray paint.

best of luck!

That's a point, these are the primers. I have the 200ml bottles for black, grey and white.

davethepak wrote:One last thing....

make 100% sure you are using vallejo surface primer (that comes in black,white, gray and a few others colors...).

and NOT the vallejo paint that comes in the COLOR grey primer (as in to paint a tank model, the color of a tank that had been primed gray).

The difference is one is a primer the other is just a gray paint.

best of luck!

Yeah, you'd have to be an utter moron to make this mistake!!

Yonan wrote:That's a point, these are the primers. I have the 200ml bottles for black, grey and white.

I had no clue they came in colours outside of black,white and grey. That's my new thing of the day done.

Yeah it's an awesome range, though I'm not sure on colour matchings... I don't think that's a priority for Vallejo compared to Armypainter. I'd like to extend my collection beyond the basics but the selection in Aus is fairly limited, and shipping liquids from the UK is annoying now. Curse your royal mail changes! : p

edit: Looks like Wayland only carries 200ml in the white/black/grey, but has 60ml's in the coloured primers.