"Colour Primers from The Army Painter" Topic

According to the manufacturer, their Colour Primers are both colour and primer…

…no need to undercoat first as with a normal colour spray!

In your experience, do they work well as primers?

Never used them.

Yes: they're very good.

They cover well, give a good strong base colour, and take paint well.

Quick drying, too.

Take a little more time than you would with a regular primer – let the first coat dry then do them from another angle to make sure you've got full coverage.

Even the spray cans are good quality… no clogged nozzles. (are you watching, Humbrol?)

I'd definitely use them again.

I've never used primer as it tends to be a little heavy. A flat or ultra flat spray paint is easily enough prep for figures.

DM

The finish is too glossy to take brush applied paint, they are designed so that the dip runs off into the deep recesses . Their white primer is awful. Depends on what you are looking for I suppose, but IMHO they slow down, not speed up the painting process. I don't like and would not use any of the Army Painter products, and I have tried quite a bit of it. Battlefront's coloured primer is marginally better.

Yes excellent!

I've not had a lick o' problem with the blue and grey primers. As noted above, no clogging problems and excellent coverage.

I've has excellent results with several of their colors.

No, I would have to say that as a "primer" I am not all that satisfied with the colour sprays…at least according to the AP method of painting and dipping models.

In my case, I used the PURE RED spray as a primer for English WSS troops. According to AP, I am just supposed to apply a basecoat for each color (that isn't supposed to be Red in this case) and then dip.

Well, that is not how it is working out. I have to paint an undercoat, on top of the primer, then apply two to three basecoat layers. For example, to get white socks, I am undercoating with gray, as I normally do over a black primer. The only area where I am saving time is not having to use several layers of red over a black or white primer.

I am doing brown horses next, so I expect to save a lot of time with that particular application using FUR BROWN spray as the primer. Even then, I expect I will undercoat with gray for socks and blazes.

I have only used the flesh primer and it worked very well as a primer, giving a good surface for subsequent work. Less happy as a finished colour as I completely painted all the flesh on my Celts not being happy with the bare primer's colour.

X42

I've had no problems using them as primers.

The general feelings with my customers is that they like Army Painter sprays and primers.
They prefer them over Citadel in quality and price.