Black or white basecoat???

Mordred · Post by **Mordred** » 28 May 2006, o 12:30

I use a black undercoat, but because this is usually too dark and as someone mentioned it's very hard to paint yellows and flesh over black undercoat. So I take my white spraypaint and hold it at a 45° angle over the miniature from a distance of about 30cm. that way the higher parts of the miniature receive a white basecoat while the recesses stay black.

LadyEyes · Post by **LadyEyes** » 30 May 2006, o 17:35

Yeah, the primer I've started using exclusively (duplicolor) allows a very fine mist/dusting to happen, so it's not too hard to do the white over black.

Django · Post by **Django** » 30 May 2006, o 19:27

Ok, well I live in Holland so I don't know if you can find it here, if anyone know a place where I can get that that ell be great...Skrit? Mordred? Corvus?

LadyEyes · Post by **LadyEyes** » 30 May 2006, o 22:18

I doubt you'll find it there, sorry Django. It is a sandable automotive primer. Some automotive primer comes out very slick and paint won't stick to it, so you probably shouldn't try them at random.

Post by **Demi_morgana** » 30 May 2006, o 22:27

I use duplicolor sprays too

the world is not as big as it seems to be

Post by **mahon** » 31 May 2006, o 08:15

LOL this discussion is as old as the humankind

I use black for most of my minis, but white if I want my colors to be bright and vivid - which is a rare thing

Post by **Nameless** » 31 May 2006, o 09:11

mahon wrote:LOL this discussion is as old as the humankind

No, it's not that old. But it is surely as old as miniature painting

I'll add anothe dimension to this discussion. Andrea is selling grey primer. What about such colour?

Post by **Demi_morgana** » 31 May 2006, o 09:18

I used to use grey basecoat and I was 100% satisfied with this color

actually... I have no idea why I came back to black one...

Post by **mahon** » 31 May 2006, o 10:13

I used grey once and was very happy with it. But I think I was used to black one and it's why I returned to it...

Post by **Skrit** » 31 May 2006, o 13:34

Also the fact that it's not sold so randomly might have something to do with sticking to black... I wanna try it out too!:)