i have not found that a primer coat saves me a noticeable amount of paint, however, depending on the colors that you are painting over or to ie painting over a red with a white, or painting a part silver. a primer makes a huge difference. i find that a black primer under a silver, gold, or mica red makes the final color look amazing
so sometimes not using it would be acceptable if i’ll be painting a dark color over a ligher one? i read about the black primer for a metallic finish, want to see it for myself. 🙂
well i asked others and they told me it was because of the paint being an old stock. but yeah i noticed it blows paint pretty poorly when its almost empty. nope, i…[Read more]
hello all. so i just finished mg sazabi ver ka today and want to apply a top coat. can i use rustoleum clear matte, or only model clear coats? i have seen some people mention using krylon for top coat. i built the kit strait from the box except for the under frame.
WARNING!!! when you print the decal the ink is really light. if you put it over a dark color it will fade out even more. for my custom decal, i had to paint over the decal in order for it to be as bright as i wanted it.
I’m going to do a pair of experiments on the white, one being having some white paint on the sheet in the right areas before the print. Also updating some of the lettering to have very faint black outlines that I can paint out onto the decal with a single hair brush and do that way. By the way this is also using a custom font that I crafted…[Read more]