Newb Q. White primer showing through paint?

[Justisaur]

So I\'m just starting up after about 10-15 years of not painting. I stopped because I had my figures stolen, and the heartbreak was too much. But after looking at the awsome 9.x figures, I figure I didn\'t loose so much after all.

Anyway I\'ve got a figure I primed with white paint on white. I\'ve never primed white before, the flesh looks good, and the armor is mostly done, so I really don\'t want to start over.

I got to his cloak, I decided to go with a fucia, but the white is showing through and kind of streaky looking, and didn\'t really like the color. I painted it a more strait purple on the inside which looks nice, and doesn\'t have this problem. So I go over it with grey, didn\'t like that, just blended in with the armor. So I try green, but I\'ve got this one spot where you can still see the white through it.

Help!

 

[barkel]

Ok, just to clarify, the place where white is showing through has been painted fucia, gray, then green, and there is still white showing through? Or are there three separate places, one fucia, one gray, and one green, where white is showing through?

Question 2: How much are you thinning your paints, and are you letting each layer dry fully before adding the next?

Here\'s why I ask. When I first started super diluting my paints (last week) I kept noticing my paints bleeding into each other. I was slapping on a layer of paint, but not letting it dry long enough, so when I added the next layer, which was also watered down, it was basically like washing water over wet paint. I was stripping off the last layer and simultaneously mixing it with the new layer.

barkel

 

[Justisaur]

1. white primer, followed by fucia, followed by grey (didn\'t really notice the white there), followed by green in the same place.

2. I was just trying to put down a base coat, so I wasn\'t thinning at all.

However I was trying to do some wet blending after that, so I didn\'t let it dry first. You could still see the white through it though before I started though.

I came back to it last night, after the paint had thoroughly dried, and it looked better. but it was still noticable.

I think I\'ll just have to go over it a couple more times with green waiting for it to thouroughly dry, and it should look o.k.

 

[stresingj]

Possible grease spot...

I have had similar situations, and it turned out to be a slight grease spot (from my fingers, or where I didn\'t wash the mini enough to remove the mold release agent) that was preventing the paint from adhering. I have had good luck repriming the area with watered down Folk Art Glass & Tile Medium (a clear primer). Good luck with trying to correct your problem.

 

[Valander]

Originally posted by stresingj
I have had similar situations, and it turned out to be a slight grease spot (from my fingers, or where I didn\'t wash the mini enough to remove the mold release agent) that was preventing the paint from adhering. I have had good luck repriming the area with watered down Folk Art Glass & Tile Medium (a clear primer). Good luck with trying to correct your problem.

I\'ve had this happen, too, especially when using inks. I\'ve found that it\'s really important to not handle the model directly after it\'s been primed; only handle it from the base. To help with this, I got some poster-tac (a putty that is sticky, also called blu-tac or a host of other names) and started keeping the tops from my pop bottles. The tops are a great size for sticking the model to--just a small ball of poster-tac and squish it down onto the bottle top.

 

[zenmaster]

White primer

You just have to use multiple layers. I know when I paint yellow sometimes I have to paint up to twenty layers to get it right. The same thing is true when I want something to be white over something that is black. Some paints do suck though. They just don\'t have enough opacity. I have this one bottle of purple Ral Partha paint that is very dissatisfying. It just requires too many coats to get a satisfactory base coat. I imagine fuschia would pose the same problem. Multiple coats is the key.

 

[zenmaster]

Multiple layers.

It\'s not to bad painting alot of coats if you use a blow drier to dry in between coats. You can get an area painted in a few minutes that way.