"Vallejo's White Primer" Topic

Mike Siggins (writing in Battlegames magazine) rates this primer as:

Thin, but very, very good.

Do you agree?

Never used it.

Halfrauds aerosol primers are my weapon of choice

Using a bottle now, it's fine and thinner than the miniature paints one I usually get.

Vallejo's White Primer….is more expensive than white gesso.

I believe it is by far the best primer on the market.

As Buff says, gesso is great for primer.

If you want great shield patterns, etc. You will want a smoother coat than either one of these provide though.
The best primer is thinned good quality paint shot through an airbrush. Nothing is as smooth (well, maybe autobody paint but you get less control with ab paint.)

Vallejo white primer is fantastic.

Gesso is also great, but cheaper.

"I believe it is by far the best primer on the market."

you said it BelgianRay. At least for a quick using and drying primer you cant beat it. Not time consuming, no aerosol stink. I wish they had black!

Rogzombie said …

"… I wish they had black!"

They do …

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I'm currently using Vallejo white primer and getting very good results so far. I'm new to wargaming and painting in general so i'm still experimenting with what i find easiest and gets the best results. to start off with i used a white primer from "Miniature Paints" This comes very thick and needs thinning. I've since bought some Vallejo Primer and the routine i'm using at the moment is one coat of Vallejo white primer followed by one coat of Miniature Paints white primer which is diluted. I then apply a top coat of Vallejo foundation white (70919)which is also diluted. The foundation white is way to thick to use undiluted but does have high pigment content so gives good coverage even when diluted. I'm finding that the Vallejo white primer adheres very well providing the figure has been properly prepared before hand. I take great care with the washing of the figures and do each figure several times, it's false economy to rush this stage. I then apply a coat of PVA but i know a lot of people like gesso which i'm planning on trying next week. With my procedure i'm finding the paint adheres very well and stands up to handling very well. I've tried rubbing the paint off with my thumb quite vigorously and nothing came off. I've also tried general handling and so far everything looks good. I found the only way i could get the paint to come off was if i really dug a finger nail in quite hard. I might try an enamel primer on just one figure as well and see how that works. The only down side i'm finding with the way i'm doing it at the moment is that it's taking rather a long time to apply three coats. I'd like to get it down to two if possible so i can speed the process up a bit. with this in mind i might try applying two coats of the Vallejo white primer undiluted as it is not the thickest paint to start off with. I'll let you know how that works out. Anyway to sum up: so far so good with the Vallejo primer. I like it.