battle of the primers! a guide(with zenithiel priming!)!

Wednesday 29 August 2012

     hello :D
with white( zenthial)(note the helmet)

this is just a quick guide to primers and whether you should use white, black, both or eat your model (not recomended)
I am doing this guide as i think that a) you cant have enough guides on this and B) there are really not enough middle level painter guides out there. (i dont want GD quality but FFS i know blue paint makes the mini go blue!)


so firstly this is just between GW black and white. why?  because your either  not in america or like most of us you dont venture out of the GW blanket.( and it also covers zenithiel priming which is covered in a second.) you know? thats okay and the GW primers are actually CHEAPER than the humbrol/revel equivilants!
with black

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HOW TO PRIME: this is very simple :D simply stand a few foot away and always have the can moving in a horizontal line, in short quick bursts. and whilst it seems like a coat hardly does anything a few passes (swipes in a line) should give you a nice thin coat. (whilst keeping the can still and close to the model is tempting and easy you SHOULD NOT do it. as it obscures detail and uses a ton of paint!)

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so lets look at the 3 options black, white and zenithiel

PROS:

  • BLACK: easy to get a nice coat of spraypaint, covers hard to reach spots (this is really essiential if your model is assembled), good for a darker toned model (often more realistic)
  • WHITE: bright colours go really bright!, easy to get a even coverage of light colours.
  • ZENITHIEL:  pre-done shading (slightly), a good idea of light sources, easy to get a coverage of light colours, pre-done white, realistic, easy to airbrush afterwards.
CONS:
  • BLACK: hard to get a even coverage of light coulours on top of it, hard to get a nice bright colours on it with thin coats, dulled colours, occasional loss of detail, hard to pick out details.
  • WHITE: hard to get a nice coat of spraypaint,  unreachable areas that arnt shaded stick out a LOT, can make models really bright
  • ZENTHIEL: hard to do (requires practice).
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So looking at that it would seem that zentithial is the best, but how to zenithiel?!

well you firstly prime your entire model black (With quick passes in thin coats, as detailed above) then quickly have a few quick passes of white, but from a high angle above. be careful and you should get a result like this:

the superbright light adds a lot more shadows but you get the idea.
However zenithiel priming is not the end-all, for large batches of miniatures i still truly belive that black is the way to go!, likewise if you are airbrushing a tank fleet a white undercoat is better! but for models that you spend more than 5 mins on zenithil priming is the way to go! in a few days ill add a tutorial on how to make zenthiel priming almsot paint your models for you!

and that is it :)

also how do you all like the new font? i changed it as on some browsers the font changed!

-fuzz

p.s. i cant spell properly IRL, if you are too OCD you can copy this into MS word and spellcheck it yourself.

4 comments:

Master Bryss said...

Font is good, but it should be a little smaller, I reckon.

Oh,and there is a third option. Hire a professional spell-checker. I'd only want 50% of your Adsense proceeds, which means that, assuming a rate of 1p a day and 3 posts a week, it only costs you 2.3p per post. :P

Fuzzbuket said...

small problem there, you see the 2p a day is actually the estimated earnings.

because no one clicks the ads (i only can block 50 categories, and enlargement pills take up about 49 :/) and the poor ad targeting i have made a grand total of

nothing.
ever.

so yeah sure ill hire a pro spell checker :P

Master Bryss said...

Next into the Den is Fuzzbuket, from Glasgow.

FUZZ: "Hello Dragons, my name's Fuzz, and I want a £50,000 investment for 10% of my business. As you can see, I earn a lot of zeroes. Invest, and you'll see what number goes in front of those."

DUNCAN BANNATYNE: "Hoo aboot ye just tell us whit number comes in front of all those zeroes?"

FUZZ: "The number in front is...err, zero."

DB: "Ah'm oot."

...I spend too much of my free time writing silly comments on your blog.

Fuzzbuket said...

haha i actually giggled a little at that.... and i now want to go on dragon den.

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