Talk about things starting bad...
Yesterday I stood up early, grabbed my can of "army painter" white primer and started putting a nice coat on my 6 walkers.
Well, that was the play anyway, but it didn't worked out as I thought it would. I used the patio of our home, hoping to escape the sun that way (25° in the shadow). Covered the garden table with tons of newspaper pages, marked the 20cm spraying distance on them, shaked the can like a maniac for 2+ minutes and started spraying. The result were 6 walkers covered in white primer with the surface looking like sandpaper. I'm not sure if I did something wrong, or if it just was a bad day to spray those guys.
Anyway, after brushing all the white dust off from the walkers I gave it a second try in the late evening, when the temp was dropping. Used a shorter distance between can and model, but the result was the same.
Got mad today and used the 5+ years old can of GW black primer, which I found two weeks ago. The irony is that I used it so put a coat on the walkers weapons, which turned out to be perfectly fine and todays weather is roughly the same as yesterdays one. Doh...I threw the nearly empty army painter can into the bin, the black one I also own will be used to prime terrain pieces, nobody cares if theres an uneven primer on a hill or ruin.
Bottom line is that I don't have enough time to strip the color from my 6 walkers, prime them with a new can of white primer and get them painted until the weekend. So basicaly I can't field them at the tournament, which means that I either change my list (won't be easy to get a proper GT/TOS list done with the spare models left) or swap it out totaly for a SM-mech force.
Yesterday I stood up early, grabbed my can of "army painter" white primer and started putting a nice coat on my 6 walkers.
Well, that was the play anyway, but it didn't worked out as I thought it would. I used the patio of our home, hoping to escape the sun that way (25° in the shadow). Covered the garden table with tons of newspaper pages, marked the 20cm spraying distance on them, shaked the can like a maniac for 2+ minutes and started spraying. The result were 6 walkers covered in white primer with the surface looking like sandpaper. I'm not sure if I did something wrong, or if it just was a bad day to spray those guys.
Anyway, after brushing all the white dust off from the walkers I gave it a second try in the late evening, when the temp was dropping. Used a shorter distance between can and model, but the result was the same.
Got mad today and used the 5+ years old can of GW black primer, which I found two weeks ago. The irony is that I used it so put a coat on the walkers weapons, which turned out to be perfectly fine and todays weather is roughly the same as yesterdays one. Doh...I threw the nearly empty army painter can into the bin, the black one I also own will be used to prime terrain pieces, nobody cares if theres an uneven primer on a hill or ruin.
Bottom line is that I don't have enough time to strip the color from my 6 walkers, prime them with a new can of white primer and get them painted until the weekend. So basicaly I can't field them at the tournament, which means that I either change my list (won't be easy to get a proper GT/TOS list done with the spare models left) or swap it out totaly for a SM-mech force.
3 comments:
Spray primer is fickle stuff and even certain bottles will differ. That's why I've completely switched to gesso as primer. It makes all the difference in my life. I only use spray for terrain; as you say, nobody cares if terrain is uneven.
Have you thought about scrubbing and re-priming the Walkers? It's more elbow work than stripping, but quicker. Just take a brass wire brush (like a cleaning brush for a BBQ) and give them a polish. It will slightly mar the clear plastic, but works fine on gray plastic. Not the perfect solution with so little time, but certainly an option...
That really sucks.
I know I've had some really bad luck with primer in the past too if I'm not really careful. I've definitely learned to do a test spray on a piece of sprue before going to the actual models. I have about 2 squads of Chaos Marines that are a bit "fuzzy" because of bad spray primer.
@Dverning:
I tried brushing them off with an old brush, but that didn't work well. I'm more the grilled tuna fan, so we don't own a real grill...now bbq cleaning brush for me.
The initial shock has faded away and I'm seeing the whole incident as a positive thing: Sure, I won't play my 2x3 walker list, but now I don't need to speedpaint them, so I can take all the time of the world to paint them, which should lead to a better result than speedpainting them first and adding details on them later.
@rkik: I did a test spray, the irony is that it didn't looked that fuzzy and some parts of the canopy/hull ended with a flat surface, only the legs&hips went awry.
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