Black or white basecoat???

ToMaZ · Post by **ToMaZ** » 31 May 2006, o 14:29

what about GW's dark angel green spray, or blood red spray, or boltgun metal spray... anyone used those

:p

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

Err, no but that Bleached Bone one would sure be handy with painting Skellies!:)

Post by **Demi_morgana** » 31 May 2006, o 15:27

ToMaZ wrote:what about GW's dark angel green spray, or blood red spray, or boltgun metal spray... anyone used those :p

actually when I paint dead flesh in 95% cases I start with dark angels green undercoat

LadyEyes · Post by **LadyEyes** » 31 May 2006, o 23:09

Don't use GW/Citadel primer at all. Icky... They tell me the quality is much better and more consistent nowadays, but I remember when every can of every color was a risk that you just wasted your money.

Trovarion · Post by **Trovarion** » 31 May 2006, o 23:38

duplicolor is widespread in europe

I use the Aqua Acryl Dullcoat as a finish, it's awesome. Tanya, you have to show me a picture of the primer youre using once please

Post by **Nameless** » 1 Jun 2006, o 08:14

hey, I'm also using a car primer

How is it called... Eurocolor? Sorry, can't recall at the moment.

ToMaZ · Post by **ToMaZ** » 1 Jun 2006, o 12:20

I use Motip carprimer. 4? a can and the best primer I've had so far.

Dragyn · Post by **Dragyn** » 1 Jun 2006, o 14:56

I have been using grey primer most of the time, except when I did the tech priests last year and when I am going for a darker dirtier look on the mini. I find that the grey allows for easier cover of white to paint bright colours, dark colors go on well, and the grey allows me to find those little niggling mold lines I always miss when cleaning up a mini.

Just my tuppence worth.

Mike

LadyEyes · Post by **LadyEyes** » 1 Jun 2006, o 15:51

here ya go, Trov....

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Hosea · Post by **Hosea** » 12 Jun 2006, o 10:19

"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."

I do use this method lately too. I find it quite useful, as the recess and black lining part still stays as black, and the highlighting part exposes to the white priming and it makes you easier to paint some certain colors, such as yellow and white. Also, it can give the whole mini a overall brighter color tone.

But I find it using pure black spray is not bad either. Somehow it can give the mini a more depth and sometimes even more evil look, etc. When I want to paint yellow or white color on pure black spray, I would use many thin layers of paints and start from say grey and transit to white, or light brown transit to yellow.

So basically, I personally tend to use the zenthical and pure black priming now, and agree to other forum folks here, it depends on what you want the effect is and how you plan your paint job after you prime the mini.