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Only that spritzing it with some watered down PVA will save you a tonne on paint! Without sealing the wood, it just soaks up your paint like a sponge (and the paint dries super-quickly, leading to nasty streaks and dark splodges anywhere you apply more than a thin coat veneer). Seal your mdf before painting! (unless you’re using an airbrush – then I’ve no idea, but if you’re brushing paint on, seal it first).

Depending on what the laser details are, something I did on (my own designed) laser-cut western buildings was draw over the details with a biro pen. The black lines still showed through much of the paint, but even where they didn’t, the extra depth made a real difference (I also quite liked the ‘hand-crafted’ finish it gave, when a lot of laser cut stuff looks very precise and clinical). If you want your lines to be a bit thinner (or you’re doing sci-fi/techno type terrain) you could use one of those mechanical pencils for more precision?