Primers in the UK

[cornishlee 205xp 0]

Thanks guys, the Poundland one’s new to me and it’s nice to hear that Halfords is still rated.

[timchubb 3166xp 0]

UMP all the way, used to use vallejo surface primer for everything, but clean up with an airbrush is a bitch, since swapping over to UMP/Stynylrez not looked back, goes on well with a brush too.

As for rattle cans wouldnt know havnt used them in anger for over a decade, last time i did was hobby bootcamp and i remembered how much i hate them lol

[jodelack 37xp 1]

Lukes APS had a video on YouTube over a year ago covering some primers

 

[torros 23839xp 0]

I always go to the pound store for superglue and needle files. The one in Belfast still sells hobby knives as well. Least they did a couple of months ago

[cornishlee 205xp 0]

Just watched Luke’s video. I spent a little time working in a car body shop in the nineties and I agree with pretty much everything he says. The one thing I disagree with is that there’s no difference between the various primers, however. GW’s Chaos Black, for example, always used to be very glossy and the last thing you want in a primer is a gloss finish. (I’ve no idea if it still is, having not used it in over twenty years).

It’s possible the GW issue was a result of them marketing one of their existing paints as a primer, at the time.

[torros 23839xp 0]

Whem I was talking about all primers being the same I was referring to coverage rather than a gloss/matt finish

[timchubb 3166xp 0]

@cornishlee not strictly true, you do sometimes want a glossy primer, but thats if your using buffable metallics and other cellulose based specialist metallic paints, but if your using a specialist paint like that you would (i hope have read the instructions) know that….

[marktarver 3667xp 0]

I really cannot use Stynylez primers – I just get paint splatter and have to move my psi to 40+ just to get a slight improvement, I only use it for basic highlight before covering it with brush work – I have tried flow improver, thinner and two types of airbrush with 0.5 and 0.8 needles, but the white primer just doesn’t work for me – very tough to keep motivation to learning airbrush, when the halfords primer and army painter work so well out of the can.

I am going to try Vallejo primer to see if that works any better for the airbrush and compressor combo I am using, don’t want to give up, but very hard to learn from youtube and with no one around to give physical lessons, it’s very easy to struggle with this.

But for brush work army painter are a good system, as it matches with their paint range, so covering up missed bits is easy, if you buy into their range.

I would personally go with cheap halfords primer, Vallejo paints.

[nogginthenog 3472xp 0]

The key to Stynylrez is mixing it. They separate a lot, so shake the bottle, shake it again, and then shake it some more. If you can get hold of a badger battery powered paint mixer it works a treat.

To thin it, use vallejo thinners, you shouldn’t need to go beyond a third thinners, two thirds primer, and you want your pressure around 20psi.

If you want to give something else a go, the vallejo primer is very user friendly, no need to thin it down.

[voidifremoved 669xp 0]

Australian here, I tend to use Vallejo primers whenever I’m using a brush, and back when I was able to use my airbrush, the same with a little bit of thinner or windex.

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